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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1901
Page
10
A Children's Column writer contrasts the cowbird with its common blackbird kin. The cowbird abandons nests, lays in others, and raises its brood at the expense of the host birds, while yellow birds respond by adding a false bottom and retrying nesting. The piece also mentions sugar as a potent energy source linked to health and growth.
A striking paper on the Distetic Value of Sugar appears in last week's issue of the British Medical Journal by Dr Willoughby Gardner. The world’s sugar consumption in the past fifteen years has doubled, while in Great Britain per capita it has trebled over forty years. The article notes other points, including the Hog.
Philadelphia maintains at least thirty seven charitable funds. The largest is the Girard estate, from Steven Girard's 1831 death, now about 16 million dollars with last year’s income of 478,876 dollars aiding Girard College. The next big fund is the Delaware avenue fund with a principal of 500,000 dollars and similar income aimed at river front improvements. Other trusts total 1,801,666 dollars with 57,431 dollars income last year. Twelve fuel funds distributed 1,944 tons of coal. some soup funds yielded 765 dollars.
A brief antiquated tale recounts James I roaming with a tinker at an ale-house marked “King James and the Tinker.” The king and tinker ride off together to join courtiers, using the crowd’s bareheaded state as the identifying sign.
A tale describes a humorous scene where a man and companion, hats on, realize their odd sight and the king knighting him for a jest, awarding a £600 pension. The passage shifts to reflections on kindness, neighborly acts, and the value of giving, then argues for a national standard bureau and metric adoption to unify weights and measures across states.
The New York Supreme Court Appellate Division in Collins v New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital held a charitable medical institution not liable for a surgeon’s negligence if the surgeon was properly chosen, employed with due care, and no reason existed to doubt competence.
In many countries the mothers of the working classes have little time for their children, so elder sisters become little mothers. Train rides reveal young Centovita Nenes watching for money, dressed in ragged garments yet cheerful and ready for games.
The article argues gambling drains character and effort, exposing Monte Carlo as a stark example of vice and emptiness. It notes annual gambling revenue, Blanc family leadership, and the Monaco Casino’s financial structure including concessions, stock stakes, and prince income, highlighting the social cost of gambling.
A portrait of Petrarch describing his inner circle of "agreeable friends" who vary in age and origin and who share access to knowledge. He portrays them as ever ready, nonintrusive advisors revealing lessons from history and nature, guiding how to live, balance desires, and rely on oneself in all emergencies.
A reflection on books as true levellers that unite readers with great minds. The essay argues that literature gives society the presence of the best and greatest, offering equal access to insight despite personal wealth.
Two girls in Ludington near Goole Lincolnshire discover about fifty to sixty guineas buried in a garden. The treasure trove claim arises as police and Crown law take the coins as property. The coins date from 1774 or later and likely belonged to a former house owner demolished last year.
New York statutes authorizing bicycle side paths along public roads have been upheld as constitutional by the supreme court appellate division. The ruling affirms authority to construct and maintain such paths for bicycle use and rider safety across municipal streets.
London dispatch reports King’s growing standoffishness since his recession. The monarch mimics Henry V by avoiding dinners and social drinks with subjects, shocking courtiers. The word favorite is said to have vanished from court calculation.
In Washington the group led by Hoar Stewart Pettus and Morgan in the upper house is termed patriarchal, yet they are eclipsed by Lord Gwy dyr the dean of the British house of lords who has just completed his ninety first year. He earned his Cambridge degree in 1831.
Lucy C Coolidge received the highest ever vote total for a single candidate in Portland Maine. She appeared on all tickets for the school board and earned 8,413 votes.
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