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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1898
Page
2
A hidden-weapon robbery unfolds in Saint Martin district as three men plot to seize a target in a dark street. The would-be victim resists, offers only a watch, and narrowly escapes as dawn reveals the conspirators’ ruse and a post crime note claiming the pair were paid to impersonate pursuers.
A Boston area plan seeks to repopulate abandoned New England farms by selling to city buyers. An organization formed under Maine law aims to purchase idle 200000 acres in Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts and Connecticut and resell on favorable terms to urban residents. Missionary work will begin in New York and Brooklyn to attract buyers and aid communities.
An excerpt recalling the early reception of Tennyson in Cambridge. Emerson’s copy helped spread the poet’s work in America, influencing critics like Lowell. The note reflects on Carlyle’s philosophy shaping American literary life.
A Boston Traveler note estimates disease causes for the globe. It cites 900 of 1,000,000 dying of old age and higher counts for gout measles apoplexy erysipelas consumption scarlet fever whooping cough typhoid typhus and rheumatism with locality-based variation.
The piece describes Ardmore South McAlester and Muscogee jails as overcrowded, unsanitary and poorly ventilated. It notes 700 to 800 inmates across three facilities for about 300 000 white residents and 176 held in one end cell block with minimal air and severe mud. It condemns federal policy toward Indian territory and urges prison reform.
An Detroit Free Press piece recalls a nurse first accident. The engineer describes nervous strain from near misses and a fatal moonlight collision with a scarecrow from a corn field.
French scientist Marquis de Nadaillac warns that rapid health gains and matrimony may drive world population beyond food supply in two centuries. He argues that universal peace and sanitation could trigger a survival scramble among nations, with empires clashing for bread as whole races disappear.
The Aberdee Free Press recalls Jonny Fyfe a longtime university figure who served eighteen years in a chair. Affectionately nicknamed Johnny he guided students with kindness secret notes gifting five pound sums for fees and cheered with Auld Lang Syne. His parodic stories and steady cadence made him a memorable mentor.
The Jain leader Virchand R. Gandhi promotes free mass education in India and women’s schooling as the key to lifting the nation. He notes Indian philosophy in common schools and outlines Jain belief including four states of existence and Moksha.
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