25 Oct 1907
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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1907
Page
1
In a tense session a speaker questions whether a bishop must be the husband of one wife and cites the phrase as mandatory. A bishop replies by asking how to handle a bachelor bishop, provoking laughter and a halt in proceedings.
A reflective column discusses how weathering life requires steady plans and multiple jobs, noting that age shapes temperaments and resistance to change. It contrasts friendship with kinship and warns that elders resist disruption, urging careful attention to one’s own interests and relationships.
The article notes Japan requires New Year flowers in every house. In Guenes Ayres police enforce street whistling bans. Ashanti communities restrict certain meats and other color-based prohibitions. In St Petersburgh traffic accidents lead to seizure of offending horses. Ashantees practice burial of one third of a dead man’s property as gold dust.
Lady Burton notes the dove as a sacred symbol across religions from Noah’s ark to Islam and Catholicism. The text cites mosques crowded with pigeons and the emblem of the Holy Ghost in Catholic tradition, referencing a Mohammedan mystery play description.
A fragment recounts a distressed man learning to wind a watch in darkness to tell time. It explains wind timing, mainspring recoil, and ratchet clicks as indicators of running hours, noting a 24 hour power and methods to estimate time by counting clicks.
A fragment discusses principles of mental arithmetic as a path to freedom. It contrasts starting points of first wind ing and a later withdrawal, noting a peasant’s reliance on liberty granted by the king and the penalty for breach.
The article recounts Lamartine’s repayment of a 4000 franc advance from Le Revue des Deux Mondes editor Buloz after delaying a commissioned poem. Lamartine, then foreign minister, finally returned the money saying he owed for a costly poem. The exchange highlights a clash over gifts and professional obligations.
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