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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
8
A first person narrator recalls a wrecked freight train trip and a courtly hospital prank by a railway lawyer. He and a chum abandon the hospital for a balloon ride with a balloon man in St Louis aiming for a prize, facing fear as heights loom and the ride proceeds.
The lily stands alone among flowers with no poor kin. It appears in Egyptian and Assyrian monuments 3000 years before, was popular in Europe for 2500 years, and in the East even longer. There are 150 to 200 varieties, all belonging to the same royal family.
The House critiques a florid congressman known for constant warm rhetoric in debate. An opponent mocked his grandiose oration by comparing him to a swan gliding above deep, unseen depths, highlighting the gulf between style and substance.
The Chinese ambassador in Cape May criticizes American weather as harsher than China’s, claiming winters are arctic and summers subtropical. He recounts sleeping with four blankets year round, joking about adapting to drastic seasonal swings.
A wandering man asks a kind housewife for a job, explaining his work keeps him from accepting employment yet showing polite, hopeful persistence as he taps at the kitchen door. The brief exchange captures a moment of quiet, polite inquiry.
The article traces Oliver Evans and his early steam propulsion work years before the 1804 steam carriage. It notes his Boston area shop on St James Street as early testing ground, his 1790 patent attempt for steam mills, and his later move to Philadelphia and New York where he died in 1819.
New York experts praise a bold Arctic proposal by Evelyn Briggs Baldwin. She suggests transporting logs casks and a specialized vessel to drift across the Arctic from Bering Strait to the pole using windlasses motors and dogs. The plan entails portable houses labs and balloons for wide observation with a single crew. Admiral Schley voiced support.
Mrs A B Enright of East Concord Vermont serves as county superintendent of schools and handles all duties of a Methodist pastor wife in two towns. She is described as one of the busiest women in the state balancing education and church responsibilities.
Washington reports T. V. Powderly may be named to replace the late Frank P. Sargent as commissioner of immigration. Powderly, former Knights of Labor head and current information bureau chief, previously held the post and resigned after a dispute with Ly man J. Gage.
Miss Selma Lagerlöf, Sweden’s leading author, was honored by Upsala University with an honorary retirement, marking her as the first woman in Sweden to receive the distinction.
A jumble of wry lines and verses includes quips on manners and vanity. It notes a Pennsylvania couple’s twins, Radium priced at a staggering sum, and a poet briefly debating tones. The Harbingers verse depicts autumnian scenery with red suns and burning forest land.
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