23 Dec 1904
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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1904
Page
1
Country Life hails naturalized flowers as the era’s most inspiring floricultural idea. It praises a landscape of a thousand narcissus bulbs as the easiest, most artistic, and least costly gardening method with no ongoing attention after planting.
Australian detectives find football useful in crime prevention. Criminals will hide six days but come out on Saturday to see the football game with police on hand. Also advertised is Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea now in tablet form for 35 cents.
The article notes Japan shifted from limited foreign language study to widespread English use among the upper class, with German and French favored by scholars. It highlights translations by Yuze Tsubouchi, Carlyle as the best known English writer, and influence from Mill, Spencer, Emerson, and poets like Tennyson and Longfellow. It mentions Bellamy’s Looking Backward translated into Japanese.
An advertisement touts Holister's Rocky Mountain Tea as removing blood and circulation microbes and stopping nutrition troubles. It promotes tea or tablet form priced at 85 cents and directed to City Drug Store.
At the world’s fair an Igorot village showcases several tribes including the Bontoc, Suyoe, and Tingiane groups. Visitors note head hunting traditions among Bontocs, mining and metalwork by Suyoes, and rice terrace agriculture by Tingianes.
English government licenses animal experimenters with training. In 1908, 47 were licensed, 7 did no experiments, and 19 084 experiments used anesthetics in 4 178 cases. Superficial nerve cutting requires anesthesia. England's system restricts misuse yet aids science. U S protection is led by the American Society for the Protection of Animals.
A playful verse encourages singing and laughter at night aided by Rocky Mountain Tea. The lighthearted line suggests using the tonic to ease sighs and boost cheer.
Miss Lucille Eaton Hill of Wellesley College warns against uncontrolled basketball in girls schools. She cites moral and physical injury from competitive play and slugging, urging campaigns to keep athletics within a useful, womanly sphere.
The London zoo houses a tortoise said to be 350 years old having witnessed 250 summers. Keepers provide hand feeding with cabbages to sustain the remarkable creature.
Eugene Wood in Everybody's Magazine explains cold baths and vigorous rubbing stimulate skin and capillary circulation. He compares skin to lungs, noting air purifies blood and that rubs move blood toward the heart, shedding outer flakes as new skin forms.
In a Philadelphia Record quip Mab asks Miss Antique why she remains single. Oldbach replies habit and being born that way, noting the force of habit keeps her single.
The passage argues education benefits both labor and recreation and notes Charles J. Bonaparte has been chosen as a presidential elector from Maryland, indicating the Napoleonic idea still holds some sway.
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