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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1914
Page
5
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Horace Pendleton arrives as the town’s new schoolmaster in Four Corners Kentucky. He faces a rebellious pupil Jim Smith and a resistant board, but with Susie Connor’s backing and a decisive act, he quells the bully and wins local support. A farmer, Silas Prettyman, offers boarding and backing, sealing Pendleton’s future in the mountain village.
The piece extols right thinking as essential for mental health and cleanliness of mind. It urges directing thought high, practicing for a week, and notes that thoughts determine acts, habits, and character, citing a line of reasoning attributed to Scientists and a line from the Ranges City Star.
In a New York area drive by suburb, onlookers mock urban design and a child, Mimi, proposes lighting a house when empty and leaving. The scene captures how children absorb adult talk about arson and architecture, revealing a troubling fantasy voiced by a youngster.
The piece explains tornadoes as rotating air bodies that lift flakes and animals from water and drop them far away. It notes a tornado can reach speeds around 86 miles an hour and can carry objects from a house to pond contents.
A short tip recommends using a cloth dipped in soaped coal tubes to cleanse pots and pans when cleansing powder is scarce. It calls this method excellent and economical for removing vile residue from containers.
A Chicago Inter-Ocean fragment tells of a feminist meeting on the South Side presided over by a noted figure. Her younger sister, in the audience, praises her and reveals the speaker is her sister. The observation turns to surprise as the sister’s social life and political activity are noted amid engagement news.
A bookstore clerk promotes a collection of twelve tales by top fiction writers priced at $1.50. A customer questions the cost and the clerk responds that it is a fair price for a twelve story affair.
A report by the asylums committee shows a drop in the number of insane persons the council must accommodate, down by 272 this year and near half the rise recorded last year. Criminial lunatics total 34, while London asylums hold 19,524 patients, up 71 from the previous year.
Talk of reducing theater prices in Shakespearean days notes ordinary charges. Boxes cost one shilling, pit sixpence, gallery two pence, with other areas similar to current rates after accounting for inflation. Monday matinees offered pew plays at these prices.
Jonas-Hea Corntossle is described as the laziest man in the country. Silas asks why, and Jonas explains he places a bullfrog in a crock of milk at night so that by morning a greenback sits on a butter hunk.
A teacher laments teaching young minds to shoot while a clever student suggests arming the young with a cat and rat rifle to provoke learning and curiosity. The exchange captures a witty clash over instruction and imagination.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court in State v Bolinski defines burglary tools to include implements used for manual operation and movable tools, distinguishing them from machines. The ruling lists a bottle of nitroglycerin, fuse pieces, and detonating cap as part of a possible explosive tool when combined, capable of breaking structures.
The passage argues that a sentimentalist cannot be trusted to tell the truth as personal sense of things outweighs facts. It notes sentimentality rides the pragmatic wave and distorts Anglo-Saxon culture, serving the God of Things as They Ought to Be as defined by private feeling.
Consul Wesley Frost in Charlottetown reports a Texas import of karakul sheep to Prince Edward Island. Local fox breeders back the venture, aiming to cross karakul with inland long-wool stock to create hybrids with karakul birth curl and strong local wool traits.
In a whimsical note from Fliegende Bhar, a seven year old Elsa is described as growing rapidly and resembling an adult, with playful references to becoming harder to distinguish from others as she “grows oiler and oy.” The fragment hints at mischief and the uncanny likeness between child and caretaker.
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