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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1909
Page
3
William Hawley Smith urges rural students to master their own thoughts and read with sincerity rather than mimic others. He shares anecdotes on music and gesture, stressing natural ease, personal culture, and being true to oneself in home, church, and school gatherings.
A London Post essay explains the auriculo ventricular bundle as a tiny heart tissue strand acting as a bridge between atria and ventricles. It notes this bundle coordinates atrial contraction with ventricular beat and that severing it halts the heart instantly, a concept linked to early cardiography.
A veteran Idaho stagecoach driver recalls a dusk robbery near Boise where a lone passenger, a New England schoolteacher bound to a frontier town, watches as the robber orders Wells Fargo loot and mail. The driver dumps the mail bag, the robber lets them proceed, and the teacher muses on the lonely post office in the West.
Aunt Ann Arkwright shows a silver implement given as a birthday present. Uncle Joshua inspects it puzzled and asks what it is. She declares it a precieuse item, while he jokingly pretends to interpret its purpose amid playful banter.
The article cautions amateurs against wringing dyed fabrics to speed drying or avoid hand staining. It notes creases become obstinate and may only vanish with wear. Instead, dyed items should be squeezed and hung out of doors to dry.
A fragmentary entry titled Advergity's Compensation presents a cryptic note about wish and sweetness, with unclear relations to a 4pR or Bish context. The text resembles a fragmented historic ad or private memo with nonsensical phrasing and scattered symbols.
A London Globe note discusses literary poise in Shakespeare’s poisons. It cites a foreign review arguing that Claudius’s potion to Hamlet’s father could not pierce the ear. Friar Laurence’s drug likely was mandragora or Datura. Romeo’s poison possibly aconite. The piece defends poetic license for a poet who may not know scientific detail.
The New York Herald explains twin earthquakes as two distinct shock series separated by two to three seconds. Each series peaks then decays within eight to twelve seconds total. A straight strip often experiences a single shock, indicating two simultaneous origins and a bent interior crust forming an S shape.
An excerpt from The Long White Cloud describes 890 Maori defenders at Orakau trenchworks enduring three days of siege without food or water, repelling five assaults, and finally breaking out under a flag of truce. They refused surrender and asserted fighters include the women. the garrison held earthworks and claimed victory, with notable Maori defiance.
A well known doctor in a public place sees a wounded man and shouts for a doctor. A friend asks why he does not call himself. He realizes he is a doctor and replies with a rueful confession that he hadn’t thought of that.
A Chicago News note cites a teacher prompting a student to use the word ferment in a sentence. Elsie answers with a summer line about fermenting among garden flowers.
A father questions a daughter about hosting a party last month. She replies the event was not for entertaining friends but to snub her enemies, Life.
A garbled OCR fragment references a cynical bachelor and futile efforts to win a girl. Names and context are severely unclear. The snippet hints at social or romantic struggle, but lacks coherent details to identify people, places, or events.
A shy professor at St Andrews, Dr Haldane, finally summons courage to visit a suitor. The judge of flirtation, Miss Jane, teases him about his house decor until he declares the one missing thing a sideboard. She later marries him. London Answers.
A World article traces the word bachelor from cowboy origins to its university usage. It explains how fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge offered 1500 to 3000 dollars annually to unmarried distinguished graduates and how marriage could cost the fellowship, giving rise to the phrase Pooh he is a fellow. A willing sacrifice changed the word to good fellow.
A man and his son stroll past an eye hospital. The boy asks what it is for and why the father would go there. The son reveals the mother said the father was nearly blind the previous night, leading to the mother banning the father from going out with his son.
A Sunday school exchange recalls the queen of Sheba visiting Solomon. When asked how she traveled the child answers with the Bible verse about her great train. The playful moment highlights a lesson about scripture and travel imagery.
A fragment from the Detroit Bree Press recalls a misstep at a buffet luncheon at Mrs Gotrox’s home. The speaker notes a break involving a walk about the room after receiving salad and rolls from the maid, seeking the cashier.
Fragmentary OCR text shows distorted phrases about Satan and moral panic with scattered words and names. The readable portions mix informal dialect and potential quotes, but no coherent event, date, or clear figures emerge for a complete news item.
The article recounts the adoption of the 13 stripe and union flag by the Continental Congress on June 14 1777 and traces early uses including Fort Schuyler Brandywine and the first ship to sail under the banner Captain Jones Rangers voyage and the Columbia circumnavigation ending after three years.
James Stone, living wild in fields and timber around Havana for 50 years, was captured by deputy sheriffs. At trial he was deemed insane and committed to Bartonville's institution for the incurables. Witnesses described freezing nights among hogs and subsisting on berries and fruits. He wore bells as a milk bucket and fled when storms drove him to Earnest Faton’s barn. Stone, over 70, was once struck by his brother at age 20. He was crafty and a fast runner.
A Mississippi youth sentenced to eleven years for obtaining money by false pretenses escaped, appeared in Georgia as a promoter of wealth, bought lumber mills, started a bank, married well, and swindled locals out of thousands in just over five months before recapture. The tale suggests sectional lines are blurring in crime.
An ugly tone complains that street fairs have declined in Tuscola with promoters like Royal Ampisment Co. using low attractions such as a rat eater to draw crowds. The writer calls for cleaner, legitimate entertainment and condemns wild cat concerns.
On June 1 the rural mail network in Illinois reported 40 687 routes in operation. The tally notes 2634 totes with 217 disbursements recorded as part of the ongoing postal effort.
An 11 year old girl from Hungary arrived in Granite City Illinois officially by mail. Her father is dead and her mother later married John Kiak. The mother’s wish was to rejoin the girl in America. Passage money was sent to Hungary and a village clerk arranged the travel. The girl reached Granite City Monday night and postmaster J W Thompson delivered her as a special delivery. The tag read John Klak Granite City Po Box 1vl.
The sentence presents a wry observation on virtue and companionship, suggesting excessive virtue can push friends to desire flaws instead. It frames moral balance as a social joke, implying moderation is preferable to perfection in character.
An advertisement claims Zemo, a clean liquid for external use, stops itching instantly and permanently cures eczema and all itching skin or scalp diseases. Druggist Mr. Kelfer endorses the product, citing positive proof of cures and inviting readers to ask for a sample.
An advertisement promotes MiO-Na tablets from Keifer's Drug Store as a fifty cent remedy for indigestion and stomach distress. It promises a money back guarantee after ten days if a square meal remains painful, citing testimonials from E D Howe of Gardner Massachusetts. MiO-Na is described as a stomach upbuilder with positive user letters.
Advertised Hyomel inhalers claim the device delivers antiseptic pine and eucalyptus air to treat catarrh coughs colds bronchitis and asthma. A complete outfit costs one dollar and includes inhaler a bottle of Hyomel and instructions sold by Keifer's Drug Store with claims of rapid relief within minutes and hours.
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