17 Jul 1925
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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1925
Page
1
The article argues that a pleasant, well modulated voice wins audiences and trust across roles from presiding at a desk to selling goods. It contrasts coarse tones with refined speech, urging speakers to cultivate sweetness and clear enunciation to please listeners and gain favorable regard.
The passage recounts Oliver Goldsmith born in Ireland in 1728, his poverty background, and studies at Trinity College. It notes a failed clerical path, tutoring, a gambling loss of his uncle’s money, and attempts to study law in Dublin and medicine in Edinburgh, with no degree earned, ending mid sentence.
Poem reflects on friendship as priceless, timeless, and enduring through seasons. It emphasizes mutual support, self reliance, and the value of true companions who need no charity and remain constant across winter and spring. The verse credits McClure Newspaper Send for publication.
The article recounts Goldsmiths education in Leiden funded by his uncle, his famed works The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village, and his initial royalty hesitation over 300 pounds. It notes his death in London on April 4, 17 4, indebted over 10 000 pounds, yet he remained a beloved literary figure of his era per Wayne McMurray via George Mathew Adams.
A brief note traces the surname Wicliffe to a Yorkshire parish, noting John de Wicliffe's birth there. It mentions 1924 as the year Davi Wickliffe, Maryland’s first male white child of Protestant parents, was born and his father arriving in Maryland in 164S and dying in 1642, leaving a wife named Jane who remarried.
Fragments describe kinship links in Brook and Merritt families, with references to David and Robert Pope Noehilas, marriage to Mary Nicholas, and care duties for stepchildren. Mentions Lumley name origins in Somersetshire, James I visit to Lumley Castle, and a Boston wool import note as a marginal aside.
A mid century home cook book style excerpt offers vegetarian main dishes and mock sausages. Recipes use green peas and corn cups with honey cream sauce, a nut roast, parsley potatoes, cream soup with toasted bread, fruit desserts, and mock sausage made from soaked beans and breadcrumbs. Includes tips on dressing, serving, and garnish with onions parsley and peanut hints.
A sensational tale reports a throat pastor from Minnesota offering to sell his vocal cords to the British Medical Association for 10 000 dollars. The doctor, known as the York shire Nightingale, says after death delivery of both complete sets of vocal cords will grant him a deep bass and a high soprano voice. He has toured extensively in Amelia and the British Empire performing concerts.
John Stephen Tillman, four months old, pictured in his father Lieut Stephen Tillman’s lap, is the youngest enrollee in the Citizens' Training camps, having joined at three months. He is kin to Brig. Gen. Sarvel EB. Tillman, former West Point commandant, and to Senator Ren Tillman.
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