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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1907
Page
3
A Greenfield high school teacher, H. G. Hassell, introduces a year long courtship course to 23 pupils, six girls among them, focusing on love literature and practical suitor skills. Parents oppose but students support the program as a bold study from the first flower of romance to marriage.
Kansas real estate note reports alfalfa soil transfers from north central fields to Missouri River carloads, with Bailey Wagoner shipping topsoil and claims on soil fertility. Berkshire manners anecdote recalls Miss Mitford praising country folk and a London lady’s query at a Berkshire bar.
Ida Bell from Port Kennedy aged 17 and Fannie Brunner aged 18 from Bettwood were walking home after visiting friends at Oaks station when a Pennsylvania railroad locomotive struck them at a deep cut above Betz Weed on the Schuylkill division. The crew did not know of the accident until reaching Broad Street station and more than six hours passed before the victims were found.
Six hundred quarts of nitro glycerine at the Du Pont Powder works two and a half miles from Bowling Green exploded. No deaths reported as workers had left. A theory blames safe-blowing yeggmen and the discovery of a vest and horse blanket near the scene adds color, but no human flesh found.
Amoret begins a journey to California on a sunlit train car filled with uneasy romance and comic mishaps. Richard Alason aids a fainting Amoret after she misreads intentions, and a breakfast conversation leads to an improvised match. Two months later they marry and plan a honeymoon while unraveling the lost money mystery.
The article explains lampblack production for ink, detailing raw materials, burning, combustion, and the beating process by workers to form the cake. It notes aging the mixture twenty days, forming wooden sticks, and drying. prices in China range from 50 cents to $35 per pound.
A critical, sensational look at prison conditions in Thorberg near Wassee and Michigan Jackson prison. The piece cites lax warder conduct, convicts with allowances for tobacco and liquor, convict-run newspapers, and privileges including athletic contests, libraries, and performances. It notes similar comforts in California’s prison along the American River and broader comparisons to American systems.
In a brief Chicago News snippet Steve Parent expresses anxiety about improving the Ierson and asks his son to explain. Tommy replies with bitterness, lamenting a recent harsh look and claiming he does not know the cause.
The State Bureau of Immigration reviews a plan to establish a farm colony of agricultural immigrants near a proposed site. The project aims to provide houses and land with work in farms and nearby canneries, offering a yearlong stay before rental payments begin. Officials note potential to attract steady farm labor and reduce nomadic season hardship, with feasibility backed by A F Teapps and local promoters.
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