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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1893
Page
6
A poem describes a boy in a barn loft as he labors with hay and imagines a brighter future. Vivid images of light cloud, sun, and storm mirror the boy's hopes and fears while an adult world and fame loom as distant goals.
Nathan, exhausted after six miles, meets a kindly woman and Bertram Taylor, a boy laboring on a farm. The pair discuss Bertram’s hard work for Hulbert, his dream of engineering, and Nathan's own wage dispute. Moved by Bertram’s sacrifice, Nathan resolves to return to his job, while Hogan unexpectedly reappears seeking to reconcile and keep him.
A brief dialogue fragment shows a back and forth about starting again. Nathan answers confidently confirming he had begun, prompting a cautious response from the other speaker. The scene suggests an interrogation or reconsideration moment between two individuals.
The Washington Star reports on miniature torpedo boats to be carried on the decks of the battleships Texas and Maine under construction. Each boat houses a quadruple expansion engine, water tube boiler, and tight compartments, with precise weights, fuel, and pressure specs. The boats, weighing about 9 900 and 12 000 pounds respectively, are designed for midnight attacks and flexibly fitted between twin stacks.
The Philadelphia Press notes that race and color prejudice hinder many American Asian marriages. It argues happiness is more likely with a shared American upbringing and common social life, while foreign unions bring constraining conventions and less personal regard. It emphasizes pre marriage common training and social habits as the sure foundation of happiness.
Mrs F A Steel wife of an Indian civil servant now resides in Scotland after leaving India. She wrote stories for her amusement then sold them to Macmillan's magazine anonymously. Later she published a serial under her name and rose to publisher demand. Her first book offered practical Indian life cooking and housekeeping to Anglo Indians. Most men would rather be kicked than bluffed.
Children’s column recalls a fisherman's baby with a gentle sea image. Verse lines evoke hush and home comfort as a father at sea sends lullaby tones to young readers.
A lullaby verses a mother soothing a baby as tides calm the shore and boats rest. The refrain promises the father’s return at dawn and warns that sleep will fade when the child becomes a man who sails the sea. The imagery blends waves, wind, and domestic lull.
The text warns against harassment and danger and quotes Elu Wheeler Wilcox about comforting a child. It then describes a trick involving placing a chair and having someone kneel in a specific position as shown in a drawing.
A young girl named Elsie discovers reading with pictures in a primer. She loves illustrations, adores dogs and pigs, and bravely recites the caption Wag has the pig by the ear as she joins Miss Tucker's class.
A girl named Wisie excels in class reading after initial pride. She jokes about only knowing one story Wag and the Pig yet Miss Tucker reassures her with gentle patience. Wisie soon learns the other stories and reads them well.
Joseph Thomas Maine lawyer and magistrate delays a couple seeking marriage. He asks if the man wants to wed and if the woman wants to marry, then returns to writing. The couple leaves unsure of the ceremony’s validity though they had been married in haste.
A society man should avoid widows to keep his resolve for bachelorhood. He can safely mingle with young women, but a widow will seize him, and he cannot escape. The widow will pursue him to marriage or legal action, leaving him powerless to resist.
The text argues that while some pursue a clear life goal with intense focus, they neglect others. Such self centered effort fails to open lives of others or help them. True progress comes when sympathy for others enhances our own work and experiences.
A writer argues that true economy comes from restraint. She cites debt for a bonnet and large house as signs of false status, preferring family comfort over social display and insisting on living within a fixed income. Society should accept frugality or fade away.
A boastful figure accepts a duel on one condition citing near sight. The piece then compares news space in four major papers from 1881 to 1893, noting gossip sections expanding while overall news quality seems to decline.
French experiments by M Daubree show gas under high pressure can crush and reconsolidate rock, bore holes, scratch surfaces, and eject dust. The trials suggest deep earth pits and diamond pipes may arise from high pressure gas, with slicken sides possibly formed by gas action rather than rock friction.
A farmer sells a flock to a dealer and lends a collie to drive them home thirty miles. The dog proves useful, is kept by the dealer, escapes, and bravely gathers all the master’s sheep, driving the herd back to the farm, much to the farmer’s astonishment.
A recent St. Petersburg exhibit showcases a mechanical marvel in a watch the size of a hen’s egg. Made in Catherine II’s era by a Russian peasant, it depicts Christ’s tomb with Roman sentinels. When activated, the stone moves, guards fall, angels appear, women enter, and a Greek Easter chant plays.
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