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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1902
Page
6
A speaker argues for a broadened American education that serves every class and life path. Education should cultivate mind and heart, enable noble, refined homes, and productive work, aiming not only at bread but at what constitutes good living and societal improvement. Strong emphasis on applying knowledge to improve living conditions and happiness.
A critical essay argues that modern readers misappropriate Omar Khayyam and Denslow’s What’s the Use to justify failure. It condemns pseudo pessimists, bohemians, and self-styled artists who glorify defeat and rely on poetry as life’s substitute for effort, noting lethal outcomes in both men and women.
A Washington Star report notes a gendered observation from female clerks in the patent and adjutant general offices. Women recalled streets walked, companions met, and even hats worn, while most men failed to recall their morning routes or describe others’ headwear.
An experiment in the Gentleman's Magazine tested smell sensitivity. Equal numbers of male and female observers arranged bottles of dilutions. Males detected nitrate of ammonia at one part to 783,000 parts water, females at 311,000. Oil of wintergreen showed similar results, indicating greater male discrimination.
A French bride received an ingenious wedding present from a relative geographer. The silver sugar bowl is designed as a terrestrial globe with the upper hemisphere as the cover. The earth's map is engraved on the outside and the couple’s travel route is shown by an inlaid lapis lazuli ring with town names engraved in enamel.
For decades the national outlay of Great Britain aligned with calendar years, reaching £50,000,000 in 1850 and £64,000,000 in 1894, illustrating a striking numeric harmony between spending and years across a long span.
Eye ailments including weak watery lids cataract or film cross eyes blindness and other eye diseases are treated without surgery. Spectacles made to order. Chicago Office 4600 Vincennes Ave. Remember Date June 19 1902 at Nickell's Home.
An antique ad lists St Chiries and White Pearl seed corn sold at C B Mitchell Son and Lexington Milling and Feed Co at 1.10 per bushel, with a separate remedy Herbine priced 60 cents per bottle. It mentions Witla A Stevenson and local vendors Orenhaw Young.
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