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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1908
Page
4
A poem by Daryl 2B. Storrs from Youth's Companion describes the oriole in spring, colors of sunset and garden imagery, the anticipation of a mate, and a vivid, musical celebration of love in blossom time. The speaker and the beloved are imagined with nature’s beauty and the oriole’s courting refrain.
A pair of Colorado miners, Maj Wharton and Clark, pursue a salted Paradise mine scheme driven by honesty gone wrong. After selling the same mine for 100000, Wharton’s wife buys it back for 150000, leaving both parties financially worse off and prompting a grim, wary partnership for future schemes.
The Youth's Companion recounts tales of Mrs Siddons and her visiting a country home. A butter server claims a fly distracted her, provoking laughter and a stunned response from the company. A meek visitor to Panny Kemble, Siddons’s niece, asks about American hotels and is sharply rebuked.
A crusty old gentleman rooms with a widow and plans a sharp joke for her birthday. In a store his memory fails as he tries to buy a book titled The Widow Redan and he stumbles through Have you have you before recovering with the mistaken title.
The Chicago Thines Herald notes horse prices keep increasing despite Ladysmith and Mafeking being relieved. The item reflects a period fascination with equine markets and ongoing commentary on current events.
A 1905 Wisconsin law requires public service stallions to be registered and defines disqualifying diseases. The text lists cataract amaurosis laryngeal hemiplegia and other conditions to avoid in breeding stock. It cites hereditary eye and breathing issues and cautions against using unsound stallions or mares. Emphasis on eye health breathing defects hooves and joints plus the need for sound conformation in sires and dams.
A writer in Outing describes Moroccan farms as bare and hidden from sight. Dwellings resemble crumbling walls with narrow rooms and no windows. Farmers conceal wealth from authorities and tax collectors, saving harvests in pits while using primitive tools. Yet the soil yields abundant harvests relative to effort.
A humorous look at Secretary Wilson and the Agriculture Department as a nation’s home teachers. A boarding house anecdote shows a bread making pamphlet boosting domestic know how and cooking literacy, rapidly spreading beyond expectations. Some argue bread questions belong to the interior department.
The Westminster Gazette notes pigeons serve as naval messengers in the Royal Navy with lofts at Portsmouth and Dartmouth. Birds are numbered like sailors, logged in detail, and messages are recorded in stud and report books. Pigeons relay royal family messages across the channel, entering lofts via automatic boxes and Bell summons attendants to deliver them.
Mrs Charles A Glidden of Boston accompanied her husband on a remarkable trip to the Arctic circle proving endurance for the woman tourist. The Gliddens drove 13793 miles through Austria Bavaria Belgium Bohemia Denmark England France Germany Holland Ireland Sweden Switzerland and Wales. They plan an auto world tour.
Paris correspondent reports M Curie declined the red ribbon, sparked by his father’s undecorated status in the poorest part of Paris. He would accept the Legion of Honor after his father becomes a member, and insists his wife be honored too for fairness.
A humorous assortment of verses and quips rail against greed and folly. It lampoons a hoarder who dies wealthy yet unloved, contrasts cheerful fishing fantasies with domestic worries, and ends with a playful, self-deprecating jab about unpaid bills and marriage.
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