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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1906
Page
4
Peter Halsey, a Wisconsin farmer, faces a poor season and his wife's departure. After years of failed experiments, he refocuses on repairs, raises a record pumpkin, and sells seeds for a fortune. He returns home to Martha, vowing a changed life and a reunion.
In Cornhill Magazine, the narrator describes scorpion behavior where mates display hostility and cannibalism. Females are protective mothers, hatching eggs in the oviduct and bearing fifty young on their backs before they fend for themselves. The male is eaten if the mate disapproves, while the young ride the mother during early life.
The altered report depicts Mayor Dunne wandering into a barber shop where the barber fails to recognize him. The exchange turns humorous with the mayor claiming the face altered as it healed. The piece casts satire on leadership and public trust through sharp dialogue.
The first white American cremation occurred in Charleston where Colonel Henry Laurens had his body burned after death as per his will. Born in Charleston in 1724 and dying in 1792, Laurens requested that his body be wrapped in twelve yards of toweling and burned until consumed, inaugurating cremation in the United States.
A tale from the era recounts the Duke d Aosta as king of Spain instructing a muleteer to cover himself to avoid the sun. The gesture elevated the muleteer to grandee status and reportedly influenced events, with Marshal Prim allegedly knocking the hat from the muleteer’s hand to avert catastrophe before a later assassination.
The New Orleans Times Democrat prints a humorous exchange about a subscription hat for the relief of the poor. A caller asks to list his family, and the respondent replies with a sharp remark that includes his wife’s mother, illustrating a satirical quick wit from the era.
The Danish Biological Society experiments with electric lighting in the Little Belt strait to frighten eels and prevent their migration. Artificial full moons stretched across the strait are used to deter eel movement, aiming to keep them out of outer seas and protect fisheries.
The Englishman is described as less social than other nationalities, with formation shaped more by individual thought than by relations or opinions of others. He is portrayed as aloof, a recluse who cares little for neighbors and social bonds, contrasting with men of other nationalities.
In the District Court of Mills County Iowa April term 1908 Jeremiah Lewis plaintiff petitions for divorce from Imogene Lewis on desertion grounds and asks for custody of Edna Pearl Lewis. If defendant fails to appear by April 22, 1908, default will be entered and judgment issued. Attorney for plaintiff Gendag & Genung.
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