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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1905
Page
6
A collage of quotable musings on law, politics, marriage, science, and travel. The column lampoons officials, financiers, and public figures while musing on liberty, divorce, medicine, and exploration as it riffs through era concerns and curious anecdotes.
An editorial discusses Boston's and New York's focus on educating mentally deferent children and the need for trained teachers. It cites estimates that 1 to 2 percent of public schoolchildren are affected, explores causes from heredity to diet, and questions society's approach to handling these students.
The article notes efforts by the United States and Germany to tag fish and birds to learn migration paths. It reports copper tags on cod and fins and gill tags on fish, with observers sending back locations, dates, and numbers. Researchers confirm many birds travel northward along coasts rather than south. crows show coastward movement toward Russia.
A fragment notes travel in Trowhe and Tren t Scene-Momiry Station with vague mentions of sandwiches and a fortnight visit. It references a ghastly sight of bed clothes and derision from neighbors after a death nearby, but details are unclear.
U S marshal unit closes in on a Dutch whisky factory near Lucky Fork of Buffalo Creek Kentucky. Squire Riley age 25 and Sid Gilbert age 15 run the operation with Keene Gilbert. Snare begins at two in the morning as officers close in near the still.
A critical piece notes how privileged youths misread the word proletariat after consulting dictionaries. It argues the proletarian is a poverty-stricken, working class individual barely seen in society, speaking the language of the street and workshop. The column condemns elite detachment and calls attention to social class divides.
Forty five caliber marksman Mayes helps trap moonshiners after they surrender amid a chase through rough countryside. Officers seize a rare intact still said to be the second largest in the state, with a 1600 gallon capacity, and transport the prisoners to Teattyville for court. Bail set at 400 each.
A parish meeting in a northern district debated reducing small trees. Opinions varied on the trees' size with some arguing only saplings exist while others claimed full crowns stand there. A member asked for the average diameter and was told it would not exceed a foot.
A garbled OCR passage shows misc phrases about heaven and marriage with stray dialect like Tommyr and Cleve land Tender. It mentions a man wary of marriage yet pondering savings and a tow ownership anecdote about a woman describing others.
A collection of odd reports and curiosities: a cork tree's age before value, world language shares, wolves in Russia, a Brandenburg twin mother and medal, a Hungarian buried fortune, South African grave customs, radium lore, Alberta's naming honors, Anna Winter the circus elephant dresser, Chinese tea harvest etiquette, Admiral Vodlkersam’s humorous dispatch, and a dramatic Lake Zug water spout with towering plumes.
Helena Swan presents Kristian Names a concise guide on origin and meanings of common Christian names in the British empire and Europe. Ada means gift from Edith. Agatha Greek origin goats while Agnes from Latin sacred. St. Agnes linked to Mary and Theeta as patroness of pastry.
The passage explores the etymology of names such as Adolphus Elizabeth Randolph and Grace. It notes Teutonic meanings like noble wolf and tall wolf, traces Elizabeth from Elisabethe through Greek Latin forms, and mentions variations like Le skeinska and Isabelle. It also discusses misconceptions about Grade and Grace.
The piece traces hat smashing as a historic riot symptom since the fifteenth century, arguing crowds pelt hats as an expression of contempt. It notes varied attitudes toward hats across eras, from mob hostility in Rome carnivals to Dublin crowds, while acknowledging hats’ practical democratic appeal.
A district court in Melbourne heard a light moment as the clerk misread a list of names. Madge Bongierno was called, then the clerk read Babs Gan jonio and the bencher echoed. The confusion grew when a door opened and the stenographer slurred Pedad Ranjo.
An exchange notes Krussta’s trouble and the Kherson 12 official circles. A big man with a Panama hat speaks to a smaller man with eyeglasses, hinting at unrest and noisy official activity.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer fragment notes an estimate of 686,200 tons of coal mined globally in the year 1900 and hints at production scale and industry concern.
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