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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1910
Page
7
The article advises book lovers to store prized hooks and leather bindings safely. It praises durable bindings like white vellum while noting many bindings need protection from wear. It cites Alexander the Great and a jeweled casket as examples of valuing fine book preservation.
A fragmented column blends playful old style dialogue with multiple ads and snippets. It includes a craving for seed offers from Salacre Seed Co at La Crosse Wisconsin and a humorous scene with a phonograph operator and a bulldog. It also cites Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and a teething remedy from Winslow.
An article discusses Malayan Island and African species that hatch young inside wall nests. It describes enormous bills and horny crests, the mother bird imprisoned until fledglings mature, and the male’s strenuous role. It notes competing theories about the walling practice and offers a more prosaic explanation.
A Massachusetts Board of Health bulletin cites a Lafayette College paper listing diphtheria and other illnesses as often spread through public drinking cups. The Philadelphia Telegraph and Chicago Journal discuss religious leadership and church influence amid economic shifts.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt notes the move toward female symbolism in culture with Gutzon Borglum sculpting Atlas as a woman. It includes a suffragette anecdote about finding consolation in prayer to a female divine, reflecting ongoing gender-welcome trends.
A survey of London’s motor cab and horse cab trade notes scarce demand and low prices despite a recent surge in cabs and fashions. It highlights social contrast from New Orleans philanthropy to Parisian literary figures and German industry, ending with a New York auction tale of a charity-driven buyer who buys books to bless a ruined family.
An auctioneer conducting a charity gala faced scrutiny amid a controversial sale. The event drew attention for its organizers and the dramatic tone of the proceedings at the Woods household auction site.
The Parthenon, used as a powder magazine by the Turks, was damaged when a Venetian bombshell exploded. The building stood ruined and exposed to the weather for many years, remaining a famed architectural wonder amid the wreckage and historical debate.
An anecdotal note by M. X. Raspall recounts a deer mother in Chantilly baying an alert child fawn. She distracts two pursuing dogs by concealing the fawn in a thorny thicket and luring the hounds away, then swiftly rejoining her hidden offspring. The dogs return exhausted to the village.
The Atlas notes a method by Mr Walker of Stockton on Tees to produce instant light. He supplies prepared matches in boxes and a folded glass paper. The match inflames when drawn out between folds, while ordinary rubbing or blows do not ignite. Walker sells only to meet local demand.
A jumble of quoted slang references a father threatening a child over a snowball and a broken window, with lines about kin who are coal dealers and a prediction they will own new automobiles next summer. The text evokes a tense family domestic scene with modest social context.
A writer questions why any man should become excited over basketball, offering reflections on the sport's appeal, pace, and cultural significance. The piece contrasts enthusiasm with skepticism and invites readers to consider personal interest in the game.
Charles E. Page M D argues in New York American that skipping hard work for teeth and stom ach activity harms digestion and leads to health issues. He claims meat chewing spreads ptomaine poisoning and links tight headgear to baldness, urging balanced diets and natural chewing.
Juxtaposed humor from a child in a Sunday school scene to a humorous exchange about a band organ and a hungry monkey. The piece then drifts to sketches of a polar voyage description by Bolduc and a Lahore newspaper notice, ending with a quip about golf and reform articles.
The Chicago district reports sustained activity among heavy producers, looser monetary conditions, and rising factory outputs. Bank deposits strengthen while trading defaults ease credits. weather prospects may relieve winter strains. Bank clearings reach 255,911,166, up 9.5 percent from 1902 and down vs 1908. 21 failures noted, four above 5,000 liabilities.
New York dispatch notes disrupted spring jobbing due to stormy cold weather yet the distribution remains ahead of last year. Growth in howey trade appears at many points while retail trade tightens. Industrial activity stays high though railroad labor friction grows. Business failures in the United States for the week ending Feb 14 total 254, with comparisons to prior weeks and years.
The report lists cattle hogs and sheep prices across multiple cities including Indianapolis Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo with meat and grain quotes for corn oats rye and wheat. Prices vary by grade and region reflecting market breadth and regional shifts.
Notes of current events report a small tornado near Guidin Flaunroe'el damaging several houses and injuring some people. It notes former president FE Ingalls suffering a stroke in Hot Springs Virginia and mentions a Kentucky Senate bill to penalize breaking campaign promises.
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