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Newspaper
Le Grand Reporter
Location
Le Grand, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1925
Page
2
An editorial meditation urges patience, self-control, and optimism. It contrasts hopeful, resilient people with the careless and self-centered, warns of moral debts to life’s Keeper, and recalls Thomas Jefferson’s death fifty years after the Declaration of Independence.
A poem honoring a longtime Latin teacher who says he teaches more than grammar. Through fifty years at the door of the classroom, he asks if the work tires him and replies that he teaches bars, shaping tomorrow's minds with patient faith.
A tired New York businessman scolds his eight year old son and sends him to bed without supper. That night the boy, awake, challenges his mother and blames his father’s wealth for his misery, saying he must bear the blame. The story reflects Cobb's humorous yet moral tone.
This English surname originates from Anglo Saxon roots with Herrick tied to kings and prices. Early settlers include Henry Herrick of Leicester who moved to Salem, and a lineage of notable descendants in America and England. The name appears in varying spellings and connects to poets like Sir Robert Herrick and the well known line of goldsmiths.
Poem fragment urging the value of kind words as fuel for life, contrasting sun and rain with cherished messages. Emphasizes that every kind word strengthens the weary and should not be counted as mere trifles.
A vintage guide emphasizes eye appeal and flavor in fruit dishes. It suggests shredded pineapple with banana orange and grape fruit, sweetened with sugar and lemon, served chilled in tall glasses with a cherry. Also offers stewed fruit in rich syrup with almonds, dusted sugar, and whipped cream, plus meringue topped fruit and light desserts using apples pears and peaches with varied garnishes.
A reader columnist labeled The Young Lady Across the Way argues a gasoline tax should be paid by the company rather than motorists, claiming it would ease the burden on drivers who already pay enough for fuel.
In a garden a dew drop seeks escape from the sun and hides in a vain red rose. The rose, craving beauty, keeps the dew drop from the night, but at moonlight she accepts the dew drop into her heart to outshine her sisters. The dew drop is left to wait and tremble, and the nightingale later rescues it, delivering it to a humbler rose. The vain rose loses both jewel and lover as the nightingale reveals her lack of heart for love.
The article discusses the wren superstition as a relic of primitive paganism across Europe. It notes beliefs that killing a wren invites disaster yet describes historical ceremonies of killing and parading the bird, seen as sacred and tied to divine virtue distributed door to door.
Thelma is a Norse name linked to Valkyries and Valhalla. Its popularity rose after Marie Corelli's novel and spread in English-speaking countries. Amber guards against evil and contagion. Monday is her lucky day and lucky number.
A short verse extols the rose as a symbol of grace beauty and fragrance found even in a garden. It praises the flower as a source of joy to any passerby and reflects a tranquil peaceful sentiment from a newspaper syndicate selection.
The piece describes Morpheus as an old winged god of dreams who held a vial releasing sleep vapors. It notes Skorpheus as Somnus’s son and explains Morpheus name origin from forms he conjures for the dreamer, as recorded by the Family Herald.
This historical medical note describes shingles or herpes zoster as an acute inflammatory disease due to nerve infection. It outlines symptoms including general malaise, fever, a painful unilateral blister rash, and potential complications such as scarring, facial paralysis, or eye damage. Treatment recommendations emphasize rest, light diet, open bowels, daily careful dressing of eruptions, antiseptics, and seeking physician guidance to minimize scarring.
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