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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1902
Page
7
A Progressive Era youth advisory piece urges country youths to assess home duties, trade skills, energy, and community ties before chasing city fortune, citing Franklin's method of written questions and answering. The piece contrasts this with a vignette of a timid wife and a husband who becomes callous after 15 years of alarm.
A humorous yet somber list records the twelve Turner children from a family Bible. Names mix English churls and Latin styled forms, including Turnerina, Turnerannah, Alfred Fitz Cawley de Walker, Bernard de Belton, Cornelius de Compton, Turnerica Ulrica de Lavinia Rebekah, John de Trillgreave, Egniah de George Turner Jones, Fighonghangal O Temardugh Hope de Hindley, Turnwell William ap Owen de Praigh, Turnerietta de Johannah Jane de Faith, and Faithful Thomas.
In northern Finland a peculiar stone called Il makiur is used as a weather barometer. It darkens to indicate rain while under dry skies it becomes heavily mottled with white spots. The stone is thought to be a fossil mixed with clay and containing salt water or ammonia, which attract moisture before storms and dry out in sunny weather.
Lily Berndt a 15 year old girl from Clybourn avenue Chicago left home to fetch fuel and fell into a Lassig Pridge works reservoir containing twenty feet of water where she drowned. Her loyal black dog waited at the water edge all night and the next day guiding searchers to the body. The two were inseparable with the girl said to have sacrificed meals to feed the dog.
A playful verse sends a puzzle about time and names. Ned vanishes into a riddle as a question point replaces him, leaving the narrator to wonder where Ned has gone and why.
The National Library of Ireland houses Daniel O Connell s fee book in about 100 pages of parallel entries. It records his early legal earnings from 1708 onward, including a £1 2s 6d fee for each early brief and a rapid rise to £3 808 in later years, with notable wit about a witness who claimed to drink only his share of whisky.
A Scotch minister in a small country parish preaches two hours on Jonah and the whale. He paces through anatomical details asking if the creature could be a haddie salmon or cod. An elder finally quips a whale, provoking the minister and Maggie Macfarlane’s retort.
A quiet bookseller in a secondhand shop treats old volumes as a collection, not merchandise. When a flippant youth asks if the abstruse tomes are for hire, the proprietor replies they are for love, signaling a rare, almost romantic attachment beyond business.
The New York Sun notes fires are most common between 8 and 9 p.m. across all boroughs and least common from 6 to 7 p.m. Early morning hours 5 to 6 show fewest fires, with a trough around 6 to 7. After 7 p.m. incidents rise until 9 p.m. when they fall, then rise again after 7 o'clock.
A witty quote from the Chicago Times Herald recalls a young woman declaring she would devote herself to temperance. She notes published statistics showing less dissipation among married men than single men, framing marriage as a stabilizing factor.
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