28 Aug 1925
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1925
Page
1
A McClura Newspaper Syndicate piece urges daily acts of kindness. It argues a kind word lifts weary burden-bearers, brightens faces, and opens new inner visions, steering souls toward hope and a gentler, brighter world.
An etymology discussion traces Warren to a dweller of a game warren and compares variants like Waring and Wearing. It notes Guerin as a French precursor and suggests Warand as German meaning protection. Richard Warren, a Mayflower passenger, is highlighted as a grave, principled colonist who married Elizabeth in England and joined the Plymouth voyage.
An aged verse meditates on true success beyond wealth and fame. It asks if personal achievement matters if no one recalls a kindness or shares gratitude for comfort given to the sad. The speaker warns that pursuit of self may crown success yet leave moral emptiness.
After her husband’s death the widow remains unmarried, a noted rarity in New England colonies. Richard Warren has five daughters and two sons to carry on the Warren traditions and name. (br McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
A家庭 style recipe piece offers tips for using large roasts with friends, serving thinly sliced beef, tomato sauce for croquettes, buttered turnip prep, and emergency dessert ideas. It includes a prune ice cream method and a quip about a physician nicknamed the bloodless surgeon.
Wayne D. McMurray recounts Ben Jonson, contemporary of Shakespeare, famed for laughter and poetry. He earned laureate pay and a canary wine pension from James I era London, yet died debt-ridden in 1837 at sixty four and was interred in Westminster Abbey.
Averted laughter is cited by authorities as a mark of discretion in Moltke the German general who reportedly laughed only twice after years of restraint. Comparisons extend to Lord Chesterfield, Charles Sumner, and Charles Kingsley, with references from John Martineau's Byersley pupil days and the Family Herald noting Kingsley’s alleged lack of laughter.
An aged man recalls a Civil War era club of thirty-eight friends as he toasts their memories with a wine bottle sealed long ago. One by one they die, leaving him as the last survivor, until he joins them in the final toast and collapses at the doorway.
The nutmeg tree yields 1000 to 10000 nuts yearly and all fruit parts are in demand. In Singapore husks are salted, saloons use them to induce thirst, and a nutmeg preserver is made from husks. Nutmeg aids medicine as a carminative and stimulant with nut butter for rheumatism, containing volatile oil and narcotic myristicin. Poisoning from chewing nuts has been recorded.
A Toronto Irish elevator operator at the Palmer House pit drops a man who is hurt. Dr. Andrew Smith happens by and, after a quick exchange with the caller, reveals he is a horse doctor. The caller jokes that only a jackass would fall there.
Flower cultivation appears across ancient Egypt Greece Assyria Rome and China for use and enjoyment. A fig drawing from the Pyramid of Gizeh is among the earliest cultivated plant records with dates historically placed between 1500 and 4200 BCE. Gardening ideas reached Japan via Korea in 604 AD and Chenning in China instituted annual plant sown ceremonies for five useful species 2700 BCE.
A irate husband, defeated by his wife's mother in law in a quarrel, goes to his club and demands silence on insults to his terrier like dog. He shouts to a fellow member to take off his coat and vows no one will speak ill of his dog and get away with it.
A rhino with whooping cough is cared for by a keeper and Peter Gnome as the illness passes. The tale follows the Rhinoceros enduring sickness, receiving medicine and comfort, and eventually recovering with relief and gratitude.
A four-year-old tot moved chairs for the Sunday school assembly. When told to quiet down, the child asked with innocence if the baby sleeping, showing charming misunderstanding in a small moment of daily church life.
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