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Newspaper
Mays Landing Record
Location
Mays Landing, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1903
Page
1
The Chicago Record Herald outlines edible wild greens common in the Midwest. Dandelions, mustard greens, dock, lambsquarters and others are described as food plants with varying leaves and stems, edible when tender and cooked like spinach. Rhody Island grows them commercially. European cultivation exists. Seed sowing in spring yields next year’s harvest.
Lieutenant Robert Emmett Kavanaugh helps a prisoner escape custody to reach Norah Desmond before her Florida-bound train. In a tense sequence in Chicago, he arranges a room, gives the man a revolver, and pursues the couple as a runaway plan unfolds. The escape creates a court-martial risk, but a later Peelback shows him returning with Norah and marrying them after a year.
In a Washington Agriculture Department exhibit hidden in an obscure corner, ancient foods of various tribes are described. A bread from roasted plant loaves, juniper berries, bulbs, wild turnips, mesquite beans, soap berries, salt grass seeds, pine nuts, and lark sap sugar are mentioned as tribal foods across American deserts and California. Also notes Japan's shipyards turning out 21 steamers last year.
The piece notes that Americans buy more books than any nation and shares German-sourced advice on gentlemanly reading. It cautions a wealthy man to equip his daughter with books, maintain stocked shelves, and avoid low quality or dirty handling of volumes.
A physician per 00 inhabitants in the United States averages one per city 110 500. Death and increase create room for about 3000 new doctors yearly. There are 156 medical schools, each turning out over 5000 annually, yielding a surplus of about 3000 doctors.
A farmer sends a note to Doctor Porter asking him to visit a sick boy. The doctor diagnoses measles, questioning the mother about the wording. She confesses neither parent knew how to spell measles, revealing a humorous spelling error.
A dinner companion shares a curious story about a domestic circle. The intended listener reveals she is the woman involved and the raconteur asks if the details are correct, keeping a light and good natured tone throughout.
At a recent meeting of the Semi-Teetotal Pledge Association in England secretary C. A. B. Nye reported a large accession of individual applications for pledge forms totaling about 15,000. From Birmingham an application was read for 1,200 forms for a single factory.
In a lively scene Mr Stubb jokes about beefsteak burning while Mrs Stubb scolds and Martha sits at study. The dialogue hints at kitchen mishaps and a triangle of domestic wit.
The article describes the U S Government Printing Office moving from a dilapidated 1860s barracks to a new, expansive facility with white enamelled brick, 1500 workers on the payroll, and state of the art equipment. Frank W. Palmer leads the operation as Congress plans a modern home for the agency.
The Government Printing Office near Washington spans fourteen acres with seven floors and 500 windows. It employs about 4 000 workers, runs on electric power, and features three dynamos, 13 elevators, and a heavy steel frame. Critics note wasteful printing for Congress and compare international printing plants, led by Frank W. Palmer of the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A fragmented note from Victoria and Virginia hints at a club routine with mentions of long papers and an early return home before refreshments. Names appear as personal voices discussing schedules and a travel or dining plan in a casual timepiece.
A statistical note claims 51,338 divorced people in the United States, over two thirds women, sparking questions about the fate of ex-husbands. The piece ponders whether remarriage erases divorce records and why many women do not remarry to escape divorce stigma, while comparing social remedies for men and women.
A Montreal Star column cautions readers about swindlers who lure victims with get rich quick promises. It warns that scammers seek small capital from many, whispering for funds to “carry through” a plan, then vanish when questioned. The piece urges prudence and to hoard savings, especially when approached by strangers or through mail solicitations.
An apparent historical report describes a self-styled scientist Clifford Howard who links personal crisis spikes to a supposed bacillus of self-destruction found in unseasonably transported strawberries. He alleges spring mood dips in Washington rise from strawberries moved to higher latitudes, implying a geographic trigger for lethal thoughts.
The piece argues that no one achieves success alone and credits mothers, fathers, siblings, ancestors, and others for support. It cites laborers such as manufacturers, farmers, editors, doctors, lawyers, and ministers as repeatedly aided by others on their paths to success.
The London Chronicle quotes Sir Clements Markham arguing against further polar expeditions. He calls three centuries of effort complete and labels any new reach for the Pole as foolhardy, comparing it to crossing the Atlantic in an open boat.
An old plainsman recounts rattlesnakes in Colorado camps listening to music and learning songs, comparing their musical appreciation to Wagner and Theodore Thomas. He recalls a camp where snakes crept in to hear tunes and a chorus of "ten' Tattlers" on flat rocks, a scene vivid to him and noted in the Chicago Inter Ocean.
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