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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
10
Poetic meditation contrasts a divine star at a newborn child with earthly rulers. A guiding flame threads from mortal tyranny to the Bethlehem manger, where a child’s first breath marks a pure, quiet light amid a world of power and bondage. The poem moves through imagery of banners and labor, ending with a newborn blessed in a humble stable.
Marion, an artist now trapped in dull shop work, inherits a Christmas moment with Jack Harwood, her former lover and a New York artist. His sudden act of generosity tests their past, while Marion weighs pride against help as Christmas nears and their history resurfaces.
In a tense studio scene Marion confronts Jack over a money offer and their future together. He declares lifelong love and asks her to choose him over the payment. She agrees to share the hardships, embracing a union that blends romance with sacrifice. The moment ends as the check drops to the floor.
A compendium of Christmas day atrocities and religious persecutions from ancient Diocletian fire in Nicomedia to medieval English executions in Canterbury. It recounts vast killings during uprisings after Norman conquest and a 1068 massacre, plus plagues and freezes in London era.
The article notes evergreen use at Christmas predates the Christmas tree and cites a 1414 Leadenhall event. It recalls holm and ivy decorations brightening streets and churches, described amid a thunderstorm that toppled a tree standard and frightened the crowd.
In a Washington Star item a child asks if Santa can see in the dark like a cat. Mammy replies she does not know but notes Santa never makes mistakes or brings the rocking horses and steam engines that white children get.
Miss Askitt Why questions Miss Wonder about Christmas gloom. Miss Telitt recalls buying a $12 silk hose last year and someone stole them, a puzzling misfortune.
A nostalgic verse recalls old romance while reporting R M Patton, a Hoabart Oklahoma farmer, earned 865 dollars from 16 acres of alfalfa this year. Four hay crops yielded about a ton per acre per cut, sold at 10 dollars per ton, with 25 bushels of seed saved worth 9 dollars a bushel.
The article cites a U S goat trade with $25,000,000 yearly value and 17,000,000 goats slaughtered, then lists national herd sizes in Europe. It discusses corn breeding as a modifiable livestock practice and explains using a hydraulic ram to divert stream flow for farm power and trout ponds on pure springs for profit.
In Kansas the sight of an all female and juvenile header crew is noted among Russians. A 14-year-old boy ran the header on his father’s farm six miles east of Hays City while his four sisters aged 12 to 20 handled the header boxes. The crew, with the father as stacker, cut and stacked an average of 25 acres daily until grain was gathered.
The article notes that wood ashes serve as fertilizer and their value depends on the wood type and part used. Ashes from hard wood are more valuable than those from soft wood, and within the tree, young twigs yield better ash than the trunk, with leaves valued most highly.
The article argues that clover is best as fertilizer after two full seasons. Keeping clover longer invites weeds or wrasses and reduces subsequent crops. A two year clover sod rots and allows reseeding next spring, while old grass sods exhaust fertility after three crops.
A. C. Gardiner from Maine praises Aroostook County potato output noting a four and a half pound Murphy among giants. He describes abundant three pounders and declares quality, appealing to Washington listeners with vivid Maine production brag.
A Bia Grain Farm in Oklahoma claims the 101 ranch on the Ponca reservation is the largest in the Southwest. The operation spans 1 000 acres of wheat fields per variety for staggered harvests, 1 000 to 1 500 acre cattle pastures, 6 000 head of cattle annually, and corn rows one and a half miles long managed by 500 mules and 300 men.
The report notes 30 self binders take three weeks to cut the wheat crop and many steam threshers about 40 days to thresh it. The ranch spans 50,000 acres, illustrating the scale of the operation and the labor force required.
At the annual Shorthorn sale by the Cooner county breeders in Missouri on November 18, forty head averaged 102.94 dollars, twenty six females 86.83, and fourteen bulls 132.86. The top price was 360 for Violet Godoy 2d, with Ravenswood Prince at 350. Victoria of Prince Valley 2d, a Cruickshank cow, led females at 230. Demand for alfalfa seed exceeds supply with prices 12 to 13 cents per pound and rising. seeds go to South Africa, the Philippines, and Argentina. Apple exports through November 21 reached 1,893,710 barrels, up from 1,111,593 last year, with Baldwin and other varieties priced per barrel in London and Hamburg markets. A farmer shares a rat-killing method from the Steuben Republican using water, a stone, cheese, and a ramp to trap rats.
Collier's Weekly notes the high cost and danger of building New York City’s subway. It highlights a 1903 roof collapse that killed ten, compares to a 1901 explosion and other wrecks, and argues the toll of progress in crowded city tunnels. The piece cites contractor Ira Shaler and remarks the risk is inherent to major engineering for urban transit.
Bishop Potter recalls a clergyman in this city whose early views were progressive yet evolved as new ideas emerged. A young minister, steeped in theses, challenged him and learned the elder doctor’s refrain about moving from up town to down town while remaining in the same house, a New York Times quip illustrating shifting perspectives.
A Chicago News quotation shows a mountain man asking about progress. Amb er Pete answers that the region is becoming like the Eastern States, citing lynching reports led by prominent town citizens as reflected in the papers.
In a Philadelphia Press quip, a suburbanite recalls Gayboy falling suddenly ill and dying, then shifts to a brisk domestic aside about starting the furnace. The exchange blends abrupt obituary and plainhousehold humor in a single bon mot.
An American tourist complains about extra service fees aboard a modern ocean liner as a steward lists charges. The exchange ends with the traveler paying twenty dollars and bitterly remarking on the price.
A compact aphorism notes that people often resent truth if it results in personal disadvantage or harm. It frames truth as a challenging force that can undermine interest or comfort.
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