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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1903
Page
3
In a rural household Caroline clashes with a stubborn father over leisure and chores. Mother, tired of routine, secretly seeks solace in church, rekindling faith and resolve while fearing paternal disapproval and family strain.
In a rural scene a daughter resists her stern father’s control arguing for independence as they attend a baptism at the river. A tense refusal gives way to a family moment where even her father seems moved by her determination and faith.
Leisure Hour notes varied tribal marriage customs, from Dahomey where the king confers the wife to Brazilian tribes where rum drinking marks the rite. Navajos eat matze pudding, Aracan hill tribes have minimal ceremony, and Khasia couples share a seat while hosting a feast. Gonds and Korkus mix eating, tying garments, pole dancing, water douche, and ring exchanges. Loanga rites end with the groom eating from dishes cooked by the bride.
An epidemic of madness grips Hungarian aristocracy as counts Festetics Szabo and Estanby are reported confined or dead by suicide or delusion. Festetics died by his own hand in a lunatic asylum at age twenty, Szabo fears debts and is deemed dangerous, Estanby transgresses dissipation and now envisions himself as biblical figures.
The speaker recalls shared seasons and songs with a beloved, noting how time, memory, and beauty of autumn deepen their bond. If fate parts them, gratitude remains amid pain as they face solitary paths.
A historical note states that if averages held last year, each person in the United States would have received sixty one letters thirty one newspapers or periodicals and fourteen packages and every sixth person registered a letter.
A rail disaster near Dawson Pennsylvania on the Baltimore and Ohio line, the Duquesne flyer, killed dozens and injured many more. The wreck followed a prior year with many derailments and collisions, with investigators noting not carelessness but a chain of bad luck and structural failures.
A London tailor reports a shift in male fashion toward knee breeches and elaborate attire. Society men embrace fanciful dress to escape somber evening wear, with long trousers possibly becoming rare in Mayfair. The king shows personal interest, favoring more becoming attire while minimizing full evening dress.
Dr. Thomas B. Medard of Connellsville asserts most fatalities from the December wreck near his city were from inhaling superheated steam rather than scalds. He describes edema of the larynx, air starvation, and altered voice due to vocal cord injury, noting deaths stemmed from oxygen deprivation.
An account of a freight train wreck reveals crews unaware of danger as cars telescoped, burned, and killed. The piece criticizes flammable finishes and light construction, urging steel cars to resist damage and lessen deaths and injuries to crew and passengers.
The crash followed breaking castings on a westbound freight that passed Laurel Hun minutes earlier. On a curve Engineer Thornley could not see the obstruction. the Atlantic engine hit the timbers at sixty mph, plunging into the embankment and toppling baggage and express cars into the Yaughioghney river. The smoker landed atop, trapping and roasting nearly all aboard. foreigners were among the dead, with most passengers killed.
After a wreck that tore trucks from beneath most vehicles except the diner, few were hurt in Pull-Tan cars and the diners while many were injured overall. As bodies were removed, thieves looted the dead and wounded. Special officers plus Baltimore and Ohio and Connellsville police stopped the ghouls. Foreign survivors allegedly robbed poorer countrymen and the dead of jewelry and cash.
In Atlantic City area, William Blackman spots an eighteen foot sea serpent washed ashore at Ventnor, then vanishes by morning. Richard Buggage hauls a Lake’s Bay oyster two feet long and twenty four pounds meat. Yacht Pittsburg mate John Winder completes a curious trio with a giant lobster catch.
Italian organ grinders in New York protest as Salvation Army officers push a new method to raise funds. The army proposes allowing soldiers with hand organs to perform publicly, hoping to display skills and increase revenue. Police Commissioner Greens forwarded a request from Salvation Army commander Charles L. Whitman to evaluate a street organ ordinance, with Senior Inspector Corlright handling the case.
Reverend J. E. Herman of Milford New Hampshire has been admitted to the bar after years of study. He says the work did not interfere with his preaching duties and that legal knowledge aids all professions, including ministry, likening his congregation to a jury whose verdicts carry weight in religious matters as in law.
A Chicago man back from Europe reports Paris had a week of constant rain. Another American visitor quipped Au reservoir instead of Au revoir, prompting a Parisian to join in with a dry reply Tanks.
The German embassy in Washington has shed its old bachelor image under the American wife of Baron Von Sternburg. Now it shows a defined cabinet and reflects the taste of the baroness, formerly Miss Laughlin.
A United States Supreme Court justice named Brown is described as a stout man who personally blacks his shoes each morning. He takes pride in mimicking Abraham Lincoln, starting with undressing, dressing, and brushing his shoes, then struggles to spot his foot covering once fully dressed.
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