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Newspaper
Moline Daily Journal
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1901
Page
3
A lone critic of belief wanders through philosophies and sciences in a doomed quest to answer why existence exists. After years of doubt and debate, age and death claim him as a final, sobering truth: man is born to die, as a grave marker proclaims.
Mrs Curtis frets about heat as the St Clairs visit for lunch and daughter Kitty hatches a plan to convert the damp cellar beneath the parlor into a pretty cool extra room. Tom helps, spreading old newspapers and white trash over a cement floor to an airy, improvised parlor down cellar.
Kitty transforms the cellar into a white themed parlor for a stifling day, decorating with chairs wrapt in linen, Japanese fans and sea views. Mrs St Clair and guests praise the airy retreat as luncheon moves to the laundry sideboard for relief.
Prof Starr of the University of Chicago reports that planting castor bean in the front yard can deter mosquitoes. He tested the idea while traveling in tropical countries and noted immediate relief. The plant is said to grow in Chicago and should be placed in Lincoln Park to trial the remedy.
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