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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
6
A mosaic of remarks and notes from a bygone issue covers topics from Elinor Glyn and King Edward to India’s council and a Hindu lawyer. It touches on divorce, gamblers, warfare, agriculture, and advice on wealth, work ethic, and specialization without a clear single story.
A historical survey urges better support for the disabled, noting many states fail to provide training beyond workhouses. It cites chronic unemployment in Chicago and New York, and argues churches, charities, and individuals can spearhead meaningful integrated employment with community funding.
The article recounts Dr Haig of London detailing his uric acid theory of headaches and gout linked to meat eating. He advocates a vegetarian, nearly bread and fruit diet with water only, claiming relief from headaches and uric acid conditions, while critiquing coffee and tea.
The excerpt reflects longing for homeland across alien shores on coral coasts. It invokes the brave band’s simple strain under the heavens and the refrain Home Sweet Home as a poignant reminder of native ties.
A man recalls an improvised rescue during a deadly Derbyshire mine disaster. His friend Jim dies to save others, leaving the narrator and Jim's father forever bonded by memory. The story explains the second ring the wife wears, linked to a vow made at the pit.
The passage notes a unique Comanche counting system. It uses a base sequence up to ten with extensions like ten alyi one more and twenty with one more, continuing to nineteen then thirty etc. It claims counting reveals mastery of the language though lacking an alphabet.
The Japan Chronicle asserts Corea preceded Europe in three major innovations. Printing with movable types began in Corea in 1224, 126 years before Europe. The mortar and the ironclad also emerged in Corea and saw notable use during the Japanese Corea war of 1888.
A race track patron quips that wealth may not bring happiness while noting the facial expressions of winners and losers as evidence, reflecting a Washington Star moment.
A Omaha correspondent reports that alfalfa, once joked about, is seen as nutritious food by students and housewives. Clubs bake alfalfa muffins and breads, claiming high digestibility and energy. Experts say alfalfa meal can sustain work with less fatigue than beef, bread, and potatoes.
Reports on a Freand California pen union formation and a Montreal longshoremen dispute retirement. Notes cover I A of Marble Workers convention in Washington, A F L charter bid for Railroad Signal Men, Boston coal teamsters sick benefit committee, New York Central Federated Union granting WTL delegates voting voices, Minneapolis bid for 1910 Typographical Union, unemployed committee in San Francisco building trades, Belgian mine working hours bill, New York and British union unemployment trends, Cumberland miners wage cuts, and Agaston-ardyne engineers' weekly pay reduction.
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