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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
7
Local tidbits from Tabor and nearby, detailing visits among relatives in Wayne Nebraska Hillsdale ceremonies and a Hillsdale bride, plus arrivals from Munsieges and San Jose. Updates on electric work, railroad crew, and town happenings include births, illnesses, gatherings, and community notices.
Hastings brief mentions Geor Dixon and Geor Strobl visiting land interests, jury duties, and farm tasks. Malvern folks attend the M E church diaper sale, Thanksgiving gatherings at Vestal and Salyers homes, and horse sale chatter. Minnesota visitor Mrs Alice Raines the note, plus local school illness and public notices amid mild winter with no snow yet.
A short humorous verse from the Emporia Gazette ridicules a pompous man who pretends to grand status. The poem mocks his condescension and self importance while noting a staged bow causing discomfort and a comical banana wind mishap with a public street scene as backdrop.
A fragmented dialogue from Kangas City Independent presents a housewife accusing a partner of freeloading while a second speaker mocks flight between limbs. A critic, Richter, notes a theme of taking items like caterpillars and blossoms together.
Pere Lachaise the largest Paris cemetery hosts famed burials from Abelard and Heloise to Balzac and Hugo. It has a stormy martial history and is famed for romance among its tombs. Burglars haunt the grounds as conspirous and curious relics include pearl wreath thefts and widow visitors.
The hunting season ended with forty four fatalities and fifty seven injuries, a drop from prior years. Two women were among the dead, one killed by a husband during a hawk shot and one by an accidental shooting on a hunting trip. Several fatalities occurred in Illinois Michigan Minnesota and Wisconsin and some victims were mistaken for deer or drowned. In other news Pu Yi is enthroned as China’s ruler and Frank Hitchcock is named postmaster general in Taft’s cabinet.
J. M. Cage of Denver, noted submarine inventor, announces completion of a tubular double propeller driven by an electric motor for an airship. He asserts the device provides both lifting and propelling power, solving the aerial problem.
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