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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1905
Page
6
A Chicago Chronicle editorial argues that Greek and Latin retain intrinsic value beyond wealth. It warns modern education trends toward practical science over classical study narrowing mental horizons, while noting the security of intellectual satisfaction for those who pursue the classics.
In Norway payday routines feature closed saloons and banks open until midnight. Servants hire for six months via public registries. Telegraph boxes on streetcars allow messages with stamps. The government offers three percent loans, literacy is high, average earnings about $88 annually, and reindeer outnumber horses while sheep outnumber cows.
The lawyer cross examines, asking if the wife was performing household duties when the accident occurred. The witness confirms she was talking at the time, clarifying the circumstances in the Chicago Daily News account.
A Chicago Daily News quip features a bachelor asking if married life meets expectations. The ex-bachelor replies that it is more than he expected, discovering many things he had not dreamed of.
Chicago Daily remark attributes that many people err, arguing humility in judgment and the inevitability of errors across society.
A narrator observes Japanese children taught to ignore evil by the three monkeys motif. A girl drops copper coin offerings and prays for her mother’s headache relief. The piece notes children are directed to seek relief from distress, not pleasures, through prayer.
A veteran fisherman notes sturgeon became scarce in the Potomac and Virginia rivers after decades of overfishing. Spawn now fetches up to a dollar a pound for caviar, and sturgeon catches this season are unusually small on the Potomac, James, and other Virginia rivers.
The 1904 United States cotton crop reached 12,162,000 bales, a record that highlights cotton as a major social and economic force. Historically, cotton evolved from a three-cent duty in 1790s to a dominant export. by 1904 three-fourths of world cotton was US-made. Domestic production shifted from south dominance to near parity with the north by 1908, with substantial mill processing share expanding from 20 percent in 1860 to 87 percent by 1904.
Gibson seeks work in New York, is hired briefly by the city editor who misreads the clipping about a sea creature. The voyage takes him to East Brooklyn, Hong Kong, the Pacific, and Cape Horn before returning to New York. He learns the lesson never to wire a story without knowing its value.
A brief, humorous fragment notes the annual appearance of figures like 1798 on signs carried by a boy with a pocket knife, interpreting the scene as a simple busy display rather than antiguity.
Warrisen and John J T Marr are named in a brief notice or item from a historical newspaper page fragment. The readable text identifies these two individuals as central figures in a small community record or notice. No dates or actions are clearly visible.
Public auction to satisfy a circuit court execution against James E Moorehead and Ova Ainlin in Jackson County Missouri. The sale on Saturday August 1 between 9 am and 4 pm in Lexington Lafayette County will offer 124 acres of land with coal rights and mining equipment, including a railroad switch and related lease interests, identified by legal descriptions in recorded deeds. Proceeds to be applied to the judgment and costs. sale conducted by Sheriff Chas F. Kinkaid.
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