City incorruptible in poems of Dora Read Goodale
The verse laments urban progress driven by iron and steam. It contrasts Vulcanic power with civic virtue, urging a free and glorious city built on truth and virtue beyond wealth and fame.
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Newspaper
Humboldt County Republican
Location
Humboldt, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1903
Page
4
The verse laments urban progress driven by iron and steam. It contrasts Vulcanic power with civic virtue, urging a free and glorious city built on truth and virtue beyond wealth and fame.
The Jumping Jupiter presses through a night gale toward an unseen coast. Sidney and crew report hull integrity, sight a distant landmass, and debate their exact location while weather and sea test their resolve. The crew plans to press north as dawn approaches under fog and spray.
Representatives of the New York Record tracked Walter J. Wester and the steam yacht Shurl as signals pointed to Azores departure, then shifted to Havana. Chalmers pushes to publish findings while Seymour presses for leads, linking lumber smuggling to a yacht named Shark and a suspect network centered on Hester.
In the Joplin mining area a worker fell ten or twelve feet while lines and scaffolding failed. He dangled from timber as fellow miners shouted for help and a rescue near a skull of scaffold timber followed. A bystander reported the crew saved the man after a perilous moment.
The piece collects anecdotes on courtroom jargon and the intelligent juror trope. It notes a juror who asked for simple terms and explained two phrases while a judge and lawyers debated eliding complex Latin terms. Additional quips include a physician and student exchanging a humorous antidote query.
Readers are told about popular summer travel to lake resorts and mountain horses with increased interest. Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway is cited as a main route and booklets to aid location planning will be published and mailed on receipt of postage. Also mentions travel pages and quirky humor bits from periodicals.
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