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Newspaper
Mills County Tribune
Location
Glenwood, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1902
Page
4
The speaker imagines dying tonight and begs friends to remember kindly. She desires comfort from loved ones, asking for forgiveness for selfishness and pride, and hopes affectionate acts would soothe her resting coldness. She longs for reconciliation and lingering tenderness.
John P. Hough, a prosperous chair factory owner in Dorhampton, discovers his son Herbert’s literary tastes clash with business life as he notices the Dorhampton Bugle Call printing anonymous verses. The town debates the identity of the anonymous poet while Hough navigates family pride, property interests, and a growing literary scandal in the community.
In a tense scene, Herbert jokes about a scandalous verse as Mr. Haven contemplates poetry and dislikes the piece. After a quarrel over taste, Herbert plans to publish a kidding hit while Mr. Hough burns clippings from Harper's Weekly in the grate, smoke spiraling upward.
A Windsor Magazine feature by York Hopewell describes thriving cave dwellings across Britain. Kinver Edge near Birmingham hosts two rows of hillside villas carved from immortal caves, praised as comfortable and spacious. Other sites include Fort Montague at Knaresborough and homes in Areley Kings Seaton Stourton Castle Dudley Oban area, noting cave living as healthier and roomier than crowded towns. The piece cites Holy Austin Rock as a storied stone, with villagers proud of their quaint, patriotic homes.
A milkmaid and summer boarder discuss cow behavior in a New York Tribune piece. Cows admire a horse while fearing or tolerating dogs, avoid grass where sheep grazed, and rivalry among cows emerges with fresh pastures. Human nature is hinted in the cow’s social dynamics.
A description of a new form of the endless chain shows a contributor to English papers adding four polite letters and about two dozen stamps. If judged unsuitable, the contributor asks the editor to forward the stamps with letter and remaining slips to the next of twenty four editors.
In Chicago last week Victor Roland O Shea shot his young wife Amelia Hogenson after a secret 1901 marriage to her. He attempted suicide, was wounded, and Amelia died from two gunshot wounds while her mother defended them both. Police report no motive provided.
Miss Sarah Biddle of the Philadelphia Biddle family defends smart society in Letters of an American Concerning Love and Other Subjects, to be published in November. She counters Henry Watterson on the 400, calling the true 400 refined, cultured, virtuous, and enterprising, noting their morals and intellect surpass old worldEuropeans in nobility.
The New York Law Journal argues lawsuits born from spite are costly and unsatisfying. It notes the temptation of publishing notices to announce actions, but warns that without substantive merit, litigation becomes an expensive humiliation ending in the defendant legal costs.
The essay notes people live longer per cen sus data, praising medical and sanitary progress. It argues life quality and experiences beyond mere years matter, suggesting twentieth century freedom from time and distance surpasses earlier eras.
A Mount Cory, Ohio village ten miles from Findlay is portrayed as a model utopia in the Kansas City Star. It has seventy-five houses, seven occupied by preachers, no saloons, and a town life centered on quiet storefront gatherings and crafts. The mayor serves as notary and matchmaker, with a village pound using the Lut in place of a former calaboose.
A historical comparison describes the energy of a single naval discharge equaling nine forty ton locomotives at sixty miles per hour. It argues that the firepower of a modern fleet's guns in ten minutes could generate 180 million foot tons, enough to lift the Great Pyramid 12 feet from its base over ten minutes.
One principal, E. Be. Murill, former speaker of the St. Louis city council house of delegates, confessed his role in the boodle scheme. His brother, John K. Murrell, returned from Mexico to clear his mind and justify his actions, saying prison held little fear compared to fleeing justice and his wife’s dire straits in St. Louis.
Huntington West Virginia reports Prof J Andersen Fitzgerald named by the State Board of Regents as Greek instructor at Marshall College. At eighteen he is perhaps the youngest college professor in the United States.
Winfield Scott Stratton died at Colorado Springs on Sept 14 after a brief illness. Born in 1848 in Jefferson County Indiana, he struck it rich at the Independence mine in Cripple Creek, later selling to an English syndicate for 11 million dollars. He invested in Colorado real estate, aided the widow of Senator Tabor, and remained simple in manners despite wealth. His fortune's exact size remains unknown.
In a reflective piece the author imagines a social retribution for ordinary wrongs. Names the trolley man who missed a signal, a boy who left an elevator door open, a boat rocker, and a unaware individual. All are destined for a grim, crowded admission to a place for those who blundered in life.
Miss Gertrude Arden of the chorus in Foxy Grandpa has patented a rail bolt that locks the nut to prevent slipping. The inventive show girl, once a Florida orange grove owner, hopes the patent will bring wealth. She is noted as well-traveled and prominent in Southern society and has circled the globe.
The Hospital, an English medical journal, records 6,776 officers and men killed in action in the South African war and 2,019 dying of wounds. Disease claimed 13,272 deaths, with one officer killed per 10.15 soldiers and one officer wounded per 11.24. Of disease deaths, one in 38.5 was an officer. About 70,000 invalids were sent home, over 6,000 of whom died or left service. most recovered. Gravelotte shows German losses of 828 killed and 4,900 wounded, with nearly 15,000 wounded.
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