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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1907
Page
3
A disjointed collage recalls a militant Republican politician, clerical figures, and a Philadelphia dry goods head clerk revealed by his melancholy, pallor, and anxiety. The piece threads anecdotes from sermons to elopement stories in a period voice.
A collection of light anecdotes and dialogues from a country audience, including a tale of a clergyman and a clerk, a minister’s Sunday walk, a courting letter, a Whistler hat incident, and a ribald joke about ham at a wedding. People such as Father Kelly Rabbi Levi and a southern lawyer feature in humorous miscommunications and social faux pas.
Fragmentary relics describe a chair carved from a chestnut tree planted near the village smithy and given to Longfellow by Cambridge schoolchildren. The tree was cut in 1876 for safety. After Longfellow’s 1882 death his brother Samuel researched the poet’s life while Miss Alice Longfellow later resided in the house.
Professor von Bergmann, who treated Emperor Frederick, told a medical editor he is against women joining the professions. He argues women cannot beat orders in vocations they see as their own and thus cannot compete with men in medicine. The London Chronicle quotes his strong stance.
A Vienna art piece, Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, is fading due to atmospheric dust and expansion from nearby monasteries. Experts warn fresco can be detached from the wall, with no fix proposed. study by Milan scholars cites adhesive decay and environmental factors as primary causes. A separate Vienna note covers a Jewish customs case, a clerk seeking Kaddish for his father versus employer rights, and a Bryan anecdote about selling ten maps in Salem, Illinois.
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