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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1906
Page
4
A fragmentary, dialect laden verse piece echoes the traditional line Comin through the rye with repeated lines about meeting a body and a lassie or laddie. The stanzaic forms present playful questions about home names and greeting without a clear modern setting or narrative.
The village of Hillsdale with a population around 400 gains a lawyer. Before, disputes were settled by Uncle Silas Warner. The lawyer's arrival triggers a rash of lawsuits over hogs, fences, wells, and land, ending abruptly when he leaves with a notice: all suits dropped and a return to old ways.
A Brentford police witness explains that a crow is a lookout in a burglary crew. The word, used since 1862, signals danger to accomplices and may derive from rooks posting sentinels. The London Chronicle cites the term as a slang constant in criminal circles.
J J Drys recalls finding a New York Herald with Lincoln assassination account in the Bible which he placed forty years ago. The Belle Plains News notes two safekeeping options: the family Bible or on shelves of no store that advertises.
A narrator recalls a nocturnal chase tied to the Desborough Stendhal contract saga. Involving Hammond, a forged Desborough contract, and a stealthy burglary, the tale centers on a dangerous web of betrayal and high stakes in the ironbound world of industry. The conclusion hints that the forged paper struck a fatal blow to Stendhal, though justice remains elusive.
A Washington dispatch reports Filipino students in American institutions excel academically and in engineering and sciences. About 240 Filipinos study in the U S, with government support for many. a new Filipino oriented magazine will launch in Washington, and several girls pursue medical and teaching tracks. One standout, Honoria Acosta, led tests in 1904, while a fourteen year old girl was found ineligible due to age.
Britain is constructing turbine ships that will exceed the Kaiser Wilhelm I by 6,000 register tons and feature 70,000 indicated horsepower. The project signals a significant leap in naval propulsion and ship power during the era.
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