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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
3
The essay traces New Year customs from Roman to Christian times, celebrating forgiveness and renewed aims. It notes the modern belief in human progress, public responsibility, and personal empowerment as civilization enters 1910, with life’s compass pointing toward greater competence and transparent leadership.
A humorous essay on keeping New Year resolutions compares progress in technology and personal vows. It notes a long road to perfection, jokes about flying machines, and offers whimsical sample resolutions for young women and men, ending with a practicality suggestion to pick a doable pledge.
A survey cites 85.5 million residents as worth 250 billion dollars. It notes annual losses from unnecessary deaths at one billion, workmen illness at five hundred million, care for the sick and dead at four hundred sixty million, tuberculosis at one billion, typhoid at three hundred fifty million, and malaria at two hundred million.
Loren H. Knox argues in the December Atlantic that mass supply turns citizens into a uniform mass. He cites ready-to-wear clothes ready-to-eat foods ready-made medicines ready-for-anybody housing and standardized curricula undermining personal taste and the American idea of individuality.
Fox the Season of Long Evenings. The Youth's Companion offers a rich winter program with nearly a hundred complete stories, serials, articles by renowned writers, humorous sketches, and a “Winter Gardening” piece about Alaska. Subscribe for $1.75 to receive all remaining 1909 issues plus the 1910 Venetian Calendar lithographed in colors.
From Woman's Home Companion November issue a critic portrays Pittsburgh as a two crust city with a hollow filling the middle class. The upper crust glitters while the middle class clings below, seen as a precarious, pessimistic group with comfortable salaries yet a bleak view of life.
A彩 color series marks Harper's Weekly Christmas issue with a charming three color cover depicting child life by Alice Barber Stephens. Other notable artists include Elizabeth Shippen Green J A Williams Harold Matthews Brett Harry G Dart Dar Sayre Groesbeck Albert Levering Horace Taylor Arthur William Brown Howard V Brown J Conacher and H C Wall.
A new Hargers reprint list features Gilbert Parker William Dean Howells and Mark Twain with George Eliot. Included titles are Lights Fennel and Rue Iain Sturmfield's Visit to Heaven and The Mill on the Floss.
Edward Stratemeyer presents First at the North Pole a boys adventure set in Maine woods and a polar voyage with a scientist. The tale blends polar exploration details with romance and references to explorers Cook and Peary, appealing to Young America readers.
Edward Stratemeyer presents Lakeport Series volume four about Lakport football season adventures. A college coach guides an eleven through exciting contests, with feats on field and water and an island interlude. The tale shows a shy youth gaining resolve by saying I will and following through.
J. T. Trowbridge author of A Pair of Madcaps to spend winter in Italy with Mrs. Trowbridge. They will sail New York Wednesday December 71st aboard the Romani c of the White Star line for Naples and Genoa, land at the latter port, and stay at Alassio Mentone and Riviera resorts before returning in April.
In December a four year old boy Philip visits a neighbor for milk. He returns with an empty bucket and the grave news that the cow has dried up. He adds the witty line that they think the cow will not thaw out until spring. The Delineator for January.
Aaron Martin Crane, author of Right and Wrong Thinking and Their Results, readies a second work titled A Search for Intimate Truth the Divine Perfection Inherent in Man and in All Creation. Lothrop Lee Shepard will feature it as a spring 1910 lead title, though a senior critic terms the manuscript a discovery rather than a search.
Edward Stratemeyer’s juvenile tale First at the North Pole or Two Boys in the Arctic Circle, published December 1 by Lothrop Lee and Shepard, has quickly become a leading title of the year. High demand prompted a one half larger edition and a second edition has been ordered.
Crane and Co of Topeka Kansas announces a Charles M Sheldon Year Book printed on silk tissue Japanese paper with excerpts from his writings for daily reference. The volume sells for one dollar postpaid.
Leah explains to her brother that a period is a dot and a comma is a period that has sprouted, illustrating early punctuation lessons in The Delineator January issue.
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