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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1910
Page
4
The page blends obituary poetry with notices of lodge resolutions and entertainments. Local items report deaths, weddings, church attendance, farm sales, and family gatherings in Terre Haute and nearby towns, with references to Taft era politics and exploration chatter.
The farseeing parent says the young man may be tedious but he is a coming man. The weary maiden sighs that she would rather he had more go in him.
A fragment quotes a Chicago News item about a mother noting a father searched a diary bureau during absence, calling it a bureau of information, reflecting family dynamics and a public tone. The line hints at a domestic incident or rumor rather than a formal event.
Malcolm Kenneth Gordon argues in A Century that sport should be play not work and that athletics as practiced are too strenuous exclusive and grandstanding. He contends America is not an athletic nation and cites too little real participation despite talk of athletics.
A humorous quote recalls a man who swindled six hundred dollars in an irrigation scheme meeting poetic justice when he died of a water related brain illness, as recounted from the Chicago Record-Herald.
A humorous domestic exchange contrasts a husband self admiration with a wife's witty self appraisal. The wife jokes about her appearance while denying vanity, framed as a light image from I Illustrated Bits.
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