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Newspaper
Mays Landing Record
Location
Mays Landing, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1906
Page
4
Poem fragment recalling dear old songs sung by the mother with imagery of the Adriatic and evening fields. The speaker cherishes lullabies and hymns like Angelus hours and Rock of Ages, invoking mercy, grace, and peace through remembered melodies. Attributed to Edgar L. Wakeman.
In a frontier exchange, Red Quimby’s reform is teased by storekeeper and neighbors. Bob Baker and Washington Hancock dispute motives about a damaged baggy whip while quips ping between loyalty, trade, and reform. Jed Quimby’s past stubbornness is recalled.
The article explains Zulu military methods linked to Dingiswayo and Ayaka, noting regimental color coding and the shift from umkonto to Ixwa. It describes the crescent attack formation used by Zulus, likening it to a stag beetle with horns on the flanks and a central head, and mentions Boer adoption and British influence.
In a tale from the Chicago Daily News a lineman named Ellery discovers coal on a ridge by the branch. Jed Quimby mortgaged and struggled for years until Ellery's find leads to selling eighty acres at 1000 an acre plus ten cents per ton mined. Jed's outlook shifts as profits loom.
A narrator recalls cruising on the liner America and contrasts modern sea travel with older times. He notes the shift from sea life’s romantic, God-connected aura to today's polished, socialized journeys while questioning whether the charm of the sea remains.
The readable text is highly garbled. It contains no clear events, names, places, dates, or organizations to identify a coherent news item for a proper card. No specific person or outcome can be verified from the fragment.
A rough town tale centers on Jed who admits starting a barn fire to claim a year long insurance payout. He quips he would not burn it again after rebuilding. Soon misfortune follows as hog cholera epizootic floods cows chickens and crops fail, touching many in his family.
A fragment from a Boston Trap script features repartee about marriage. A character recalls hearing a wife call her husband a perfect brute. A line about age forty suggests shifting speech. a correction to hypothetical marriage phrasing appears as a linguistic aside.
The text appears garbled and lacks coherent reportable facts. No clear event, names, organizations, or dates are identifiable for a structured summary or headline.
The article discusses the famous phrase Millions for defense not one cent for tribute linked to Pinckney and Jay. It notes Pinckney’s alleged reply and the broader theme of wartime finance amid Japan’s industrial expansion and rising machinery imports at Kobe, with projected capital for power, lighting, mills, railways, and mining abroad.
Capt Crute of the U C V Roanoke Virginia testifies he suffered long with back pain fatigue and frequent urination. After taking Dean's Kidney Pills he passed a gravel stone the size of a bean and has not had an attack since. He credits the remedy for regaining health and weight. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The article details humans inhabiting caverns and volcanic craters such as Tupuselel on a submerged reef near Torres Strait and an elevated palm village on the mainland. It notes motives of safety from enemies and head hunters, including a cave settlement in Mammoth Cave Kentucky.
Sir James Hector, 70, aboard the steamer Aorangi to Victoria B C recalls his 1857 discovery of the Kicking Horse Pass and the fertile belt concept. He details work from Lake Superior westward, explorations of Peace River Valley, northern British Columbia, Vancouver Island, and his long tenure as director of New Zealand's geological survey since 1861.
A jumble of vignettes: a Massachusetts chemist recalling Jenkins, a town where Father is sung, and a New York lawyer recounting a physician retort during a brain concussion exchange. The text blends anecdotes about old colleagues, absent mindedness, and courtroom banter from a dated source.
A fragmentary account shows Leigh Haunt dining with a hospitable hostess who urgently calls him to a dessert clash. The scene hints at a tense encounter and veiled danger surrounding the visit.
Mrs. Willadsen of Maurning reports Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her irregular and painful menstruation after two years of failed treatments. She urges other women to write for help, noting Pinkham's long standing endorsements and free advice from Mrs Pinkham's daughter in law at Lynn Massachusetts.
Lord Northcote hosted a banquet 300 feet underground in Newcastle New South Wales. The event highlighted coal mine hospitality and industrial flair of the era.
A Brooklyn parent recounts a twelve year struggle with infant eczema that defied doctors. After trying various remedies, the Cuticura regimen of Soap Ointment and Resolvent cured the child, now twelve, with smooth skin. April 16, 1905.
Mrs Lane hires a new maid Tillie who blindly follows orders and rises with the dawn. The household abides to her routine as Tillie awakens early and rings a bell outside the gate for ten minutes, a habit that intrigues Mrs Lane’s curious neighbor.
A damaged verse grid presents a lyrical invocation to come away to the hills. The lines evoke fragrant air and singing hills while shapes and words are garbled, offering a fleeting sense of a rustic rural scene and a calling voice.
A devotional meditation on trust, grace, and character. The speaker warns that God tests with silence before power, condemns fault finding, and urges sincerity over outward conformity. It cautions against old heresies cloaked as truth and notes the danger of misused money in faith.
The New York Tribune reports signs of a new era in Egypt driven by Lord Cromer. Britain and Egypt consider reorganizing legislative and judicial affairs with a twenty five to thirty member council of signatory nationals to supervise courts replacing consular and mixed tribunals. The plan preserves judicial independence while ensuring equal treatment for all foreign residents and maintaining open trade.
An a piece describes Abyssinian customs where an aging father may be pushed from a tree by his son to confirm his usefulness and visitors are sewn into green hides or tied and rolled to death by tribes in the region.
A Wise Indiana physician claims to have cured a patient’s twenty year stomach ailment without drugs. The patient had tried allopathic and patent medicines and coffee, but improved after following dietary guidance and using Postum with cream as directed.
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