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Newspaper
Logansport Daily Tribune
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1908
Page
7
John Burroughs argues that animals communicate by cries but lack language or mental concepts. He notes instincts drive alarm pain and joy, while humans can feel without ideas. He recalls surprising a poacher who screamed as an animal would when seized.
A Westminster Gazette passage laments a world of dull nature writers and noisy sportsmen, contrasting theater and countryside voices with peasants' grievances. A philosopher, who loves nature, remains silent amid the absence of genuine nature lovers.
The piece traces the superstition of 13 at table to Norse myth with Loki and Barbour, then notes French history around May 14 linking it to four monarchs. It adds 14 as a portentous French motif through Henri II to Louis XIV and beyond.
Egbert T. Butler a 90 year old resident of Norfolk Connecticut reports no illness but endured pains blamed on a needle traveling through his flesh for 75 years. Doctors traced its path from the foot near the heart and lungs before finally removing it. He recalls swallowing a needle as a child and says it stayed inside all that time.
A Chicago visitor in New York complains about New Yorkers offering only a two finger gesture instead of a full handshake. He notes right hand often busy with papers and urges a brief removal of impediments for a proper greeting.
The story recalls Lord Kelvin's absent mindedness and habit of leaping onto moving trains. A parrot cried late again at meals while he rushed between trains. An ice accident later slowed him, and friends say the mishap saved his neck from harm.
An excerpt from Helen Keller's Sense and Sensibility in Century invokes the thousand soft voices of the earth. The narrator describes grass rustling leaves buzzing insects birds wings water over pebbles, and memoirs of these sounds lingering in memory.
A London Tatler writer recounts a joke about Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema after his knighthood. A lady asks if the painter will quit painting to live as a gentleman, reflecting on the honor and its imagined influence on his career.
The London Chronicle recalls a nineteenth century case where a woman condemned for a minor offense was not issued the execution warrant. She remained jailed for about three years acting as a washerwoman before a records clerk found the warrant and sent it to the sheriff. She was hanged next morning at a town house.
An elderly uncle humorously frets that his ten year old niece Luella may grow up to stir trouble in the world. He recalls her pausing a gander’s clash by sewing white cloth drawpants and a chim-slip for him, imagining future prudish crusades against human flaws.
Jacob H. Schiff on the Caronia mocks a tenor who nightly sang in a New England church. A visitor’s bold hymn singing stirs awe, then triggers a hissed rebuke as the sexton sternly orders silence claiming the church pays for quiet.
A reflective piece urges choosing the silver lining in misdeeds and setbacks. It cites a kindergartner’s plea for a gold star and a teacher’s gentle redirect to illustrate the value of framing faults in a charitable light. It closes with a Congregationalist quotation praising a forgiving, excusing nature.
Bob McGregor of Brooklyn was confined on Bellevue Island after writing Mrs. Mary Stroker 100 love letters a day. The persistent messages led Mrs. Stroker to alert police, who then detained McGregor to review his course of true love.
A scientific claim asserts music stimulates hair growth with stringed instruments like the violin promoting growth while brass instruments hinder it. Observers note bald violinists are rare, unlike horn players, and wood instruments such as the flute show no clear effect.
The passage catalogs famed figures deemed illustrious bachelors such as Newton Hobbes Smith Chamfort Gassendi Galileo Descartes Locke Spinola Kant Bishop Butler Leibniz Hume Gibbon Macaulay Buckle Pitt Fox Leonardo da Vinci Raphael Michaelangelo Reynolds Turner Handel Beethoven Rossini Mendelssohn Meyerbeer noting their lifelong singleness.
British farming enters a new era from Cambridge university farm Impington experiments. Over eight years, wheat varieties have been tested for rust resistance, yield, milling quality, and straw stiffness. A few lines cross with British wheat promising an immediate value rise of around 10 percent, with barley and other crops likely to improve as well.
The New York American notes that whales belong to the Cetacea, a higher order than fish, as they are mammals with lungs and live birth. It cites the whale’s land-dwelling ancestors with limbs now transformed into paddles.
Wealth concentrates in a small elite. About 700000 deaths yearly leave most with little or nothing. Over 616000 die leaving nothing, 50000 leave about 1000 dollars, and 10000 die with estates under 5000 dollars. The bulk of wealth resides with about 21000 people.
The conversation reveals a patient told to rest by the doctor, but jokes that the doctor expects him to settle the bill as soon as possible. The exchange humorously notes the upcoming payment as a condition of discharge.
A pretty girl confides she wishes a thorough cooking course to become a good wife. The matron approves. The girl is unsure when she will marry, replying she has not yet found a man.
A new member addresses Mrs Justine, recognizing the president Mme President. The member rises with a flutter and moves that the motion be carried as the gav el rings foreground.
In a classroom the teacher asks who knows what comes after G. Silence follows until Carleton raises his hand and blurts I d8, Gee whizz. The scene from Woman's Home Magazine captures a moment of early literacy struggle.
A terse dialogue exchange features Wedderly and Sigleton debating Higgins and a widow. Wedderly quips that Higgins left a widow who pursued him, implying a sharp, witty line about past relationship trouble and reputation.
Timetables show daily No. 2 No. 8 No. 6 No. 4 trains from St. Louis to New York and Toledo to St Louis with listed morning and evening departures and arrivals. Westbound No. 9 from New York to Kansas City and No. 1 from New York to St. Louis appear with times. M. Burke is named as local ticket agent.
While in college Garfield chased Latin honors and outworked a rival living across campus. He studied the last hour until the opponent lights out, then pushed for 15 more minutes, gaining the final edge. The message: effort yields results, extra effort yields greater results.
A cabinet colleague recalls Lord Palmerston joking that ambassadors invite him to dinner because the host government pays when a cabinet minister attends. He quips that the ambassador benefits, as ministers effectively underwrite many dinners and others share the cost.
In Yonkers, a Statesman column notes a sharp jab about cutter’s carving at dinner with Gotham figures. The exchange mocks a well known sculptor’s table technique, implying social critique. The dialogue underscores local gossip between acquaintances.
Henry Peck voices mild protest about the weather to Mrs. Peck in a Philadelphia Press snippet. The exchange frames a domestic scene with social tone reflecting daily life and humor.
Train timetable for connections between Chicago Logansport Bradford Cincinnati and Louisville. Includes numbers schedules sleeping cars parlor dining car notes and daily and Sunday service details with multiple divisions and connections.
Schedule fragment lists No 46 South Bend Acco on Sunday No 40 South Bend Mall daily 10 20 a m 7 08 except Sunday No 48 Logan Acc except 5 05 p m Sunday No 58 South Bend Acc Sunday service 9 33 p m.
The message lists express mail times and Sunday restrictions with a namesake note. Frank J. Reed G P A provides times 5 48 am 2 58 am and 2 15 am for mail dispatch along with other listed daily slots, indicating a limited service window.
The Fort Wayne and Wabash Valley Traction Co announces interurban car times to Peru Waba Huntington Lafayette and intermediate points with morning departures from Fort Wayne at 9:30 a.m. and Lafayette at 8:30 a.m. Limited cars run through Delphi and Lafayette with a 11:05 p.m. car to Boyd Park only. Superintendent R T Gunn notes weekday terminal departures.
Timetables show limited trains from 5:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. with connections at Kokomo for Indianapolis and Tipton for Elwood and neighboring towns. Interchangeable Coupon Books sell for 12 dollars, granting 10 dollars worth across 32 traction lines in Indiana Ohio and Michigan covering 1807 miles. Traction line connections include Muncie and routes to Hartford City Montpelier Bluffton Farmland Winchester Union City and beyond.
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