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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1902
Page
4
Poem by S. W. Gillian published in Los Angeles heralds, urging resolve and grit. Encourages setting one’s jaw and pressing forward despite odds, describing obstacles as fuel for a determined heart.
Ted Leslie and his wife Nellie face debt and hunger as their modest home tightens its grip. Uncle Mac arrives penniless yet bold, stirs their yearned upgrade dream, and buys a lavish Highgate house in sleep. Nellie awakens to a new reality and learning wealth tests love.
The London Globe discusses music’s calming influence as a therapeutic aid. It cites correspondence on music soothing nerves and feverish conditions, noting assertions by Sir Andrew Clark and Sir Richard Quays, while questioning the necessity of proof beyond observed comfort. It argues music should aid the sick more than the healthy.
A foreign medical writer argues bubonic plague in Naples may have spread from a bat haunted building. Experiments by inoculating bats with the virus showed infection and death, with parasites thought to aid transmission. Also notes that prudent advertising expands business beyond cost.
An item describes towels named Asbeston Towels, claiming they rid dirt by plunging into red hot iron, then rinsing and drying to become clean again. The odd phrasing suggests a period advertisement or product claim about asbestos content and self cleaning through heat.
The piece argues that printing has advanced faster than writing, notes New South Wales may vote on women’s suffrage, and commends Oliver Wendell Holmes as a blend of merit and lineage. It contends crowds flock to gifted speakers, readers form their own judgments, and statesmen gain advantage when voicing convictions without self-serving deceit.
The text argues that Indians are now ordinary and uninteresting, mocking ancestral figures and warrior stereotypes. It imagines descendants wearing modern footwear and luxury items, concluding that the Indian no longer holds cultural novelty for manufacturers of gum shoes and rubber goods.
A historic reflection argues the automobile will dominate roads within a decade while horses persist in limited roles. It condemns cars as a dangerous nuisance yet asserts regulation is essential as progress trims pride and reshapes social hierarchies, noting agnosticism weakens intellectual pride.
A French scientist tested mosquito attraction by placing insects in boxes lined with cloth of various colors. The study found a preference for dark colors over white and noted few if any in the box lined yellow. The experiment supports the belief that dark tones attract mosquitoes more than light ones.
Portuguese East Africa is reported to be British possession after a ten year old agreement among Great Britain Germany and Portugal. The 301000 square mile territory holds 8120000 people with ports at Delagoa Bay and Beira. Delagoa Bay provides a rail link to the Transvaal and a strategic naval base. Beira connects to a 222 mile Rhodesia rail line. Gold mining iron ores and rubber lead exports while imports total about 7500000 dollars annually and Portugal receives about 5000000 dollars in revenue.
Rear Admiral James J. Jouett retired United States Navy died at his home Anchorage Sandy Spring Maryland last week at age 74. Born February 27 1828 in Lexington Kentucky he joined the navy in 1861 and led a daring boat expedition against Royal Yacht off Galveston Texas earning a severe wound. He rose to captain in 1874 commodore in 1883 and rear admiral in 1886. His Panama Isthmus actions helped restore order and influence surrender of insurgents.
Denver mining engineer A Snedaker finds a Pony Express era station in Eureka County Nevada eighty miles from the railroad. The relic features light gray lava stone, cedar root walls, earth covering, and shot holes for defense with an old corral nearby. He notes the overland trail passed before it and the desolate valleys still echoing the era of gold seekers and stage coaches. He urges Nevada to preserve this unique relic.
George Von L. Meyer, newly appointed U S ambassador to Italy, sails from London to assume duties in Rome after a career as Boston council member, Massachusetts House speaker, and Republican national committee member. Born in Boston forty four years ago, he is noted for wealth and wide business ties.
The Bank of England uses a grand balance about seven feet tall and weighing two tons. It can weigh a grain of dust or 400 pounds of gold with equal precision. A postage stamp on one pan moves the index six inches. An electric bell rings if the load exceeds capacity.
Lady Dilke wife of Sir Charles Dilke is a leading English Liberal philanthropist and tireless worker for law reform and improved conditions for working women. As president of the Women's movement she advocates practical social betterment.
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