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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1897
Page
8
Poem extols simple child prayers as deeper and more hopeful than learned hymns. It suggests angelic amusement at daily petitions rising from innocent mouths. The piece emphasizes purity, faith, and the reach of prayer beyond scholarly speech.
A Chicago anecdote recounts Bailey riding an electric car with a stranger. He slips a dime in a conductor’s hand, but the opposite passenger’s money vanishes to his pocket. The woman remarks that appearances mislead and jokes about a life of crime, ending with a stern claim about returning money.
A fragmentary reminiscence recounts Toure and Len Proustin operating a Franklin press in Lancaster and John W. Forney at the Lancaster Union office. The account links early American printing to Philadelphia and presidential figures, noting the press’s rickety condition and a sense of national progress.
A garbled Detroit Journal excerpt notes a German country district where pay welfings funded entertainment, with receipts set aside for a newly formed couple. The text includes stray lines about a convict and a benevolent woman and ends with a remark on the value of quotation and Johnson.
The Philadelphia Times recounts palmistry linked feet readings noting instep shape and heel as signs of endurance or commonness, toe length and curvature signaling artistry or practicality, and decorative marks on setae and mountains and valleys on the palm. It cites fashion, vanity, and literary allusions to Trilby and du Maurier.
A bride urges restraint in a burned toast to frugality, while a husband misreads the moment and flees. The piece then shifts to Pearson's Weekly on advanced safe and alarm cabinet designs with time locks and tamper alarms, detailing how vault and cabinet doors resist entry.
In France the ministry of war offered a prize for a pigeon race from Perigneux to Paris about 200 miles. More than 2,746 birds were entered. The winner covered the distance in 7 hours 34 minutes at an average speed over 34 miles per hour.
A fragmentary note describes Bobby Haskell crying over a pantry door incident while Mrs. Haskell and a character named Raskel react to missing jam. The mood suggests a domestic vignette with a distressed child and a humorous aside.
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