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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1905
Page
3
Debate centers on prohibiting corporate political contributions and taxing patent medicines with alcohol content. Leaders anticipate a partisan clash over campaign finance publication proposals and deficit reduction. Patent medicine firms vow to resist new taxes while defending existing liquor taxes.
A defense of country homes over metropolitan power argues New York City thrives on rural inputs. It cites farmers, mining districts, lumber regions, and out-of-town workers as the true lifeblood fueling Wall Street and industry, and warns of city vulnerability to farm and fuel shortages.
A crude stone head found in a Moriches field on Long Island is shown to illustrate early human brain size. Ethnologists call it a near natural representation of a savage prehistoric people. The sculpture is unrefined yet conveys a primitive life with notable jaw features.
Rev Dr Forbes, secretary of the Methodist Board of Extension, argues funds spent on church steeples could pay national debts. He calls steeples relics of barbarism, while others defend their beauty, noting spires brighten towns and please many.
David Belasco battles the theatrical trust with an opposition group aided by Minnie Maddern Fiske and the Shubert Brothers. A new 21.5 million capital group controls about thirty theatres from Boston to St Louis, while Belasco secures Washington’s Lafayette Theatre and a 99 year lease, spending nearly 25000 to fireproof it and defy trust barriers.
A reflective piece contrasts children amid urban squalor with memories of rural childhood joys. It laments how a harsh city environment limits moral and physical development and questions judging those raised on brick walls and canals. It urges empathy and memory of better times to guide upbringing.
London doctors warn of a new vice the tea leaf cigarette habit chiefly among women. The habit brings dizziness and a euphoric urge for imagined objects, ending in exhaustion and a dreamlike state similar to narcotic influence, sparking medical concern and social turmoil.
The Mary Washington Monument in Fredericksburg Virginia stands on Marye’s Heights near the grave of George Washington’s mother who died August 25 1759. After years of neglect and failed efforts a monument was funded by the Mary Washington Monument Association formed in 1889 and completed by subscription on land holding the bones of Washington’s mother.
Esquirol challenged a student by inviting him to observe a dinner with two guests a refined man and a noisy fool. The student judged the quiet man sane and the other a lunatic. Balzac revealed himself as the supposedly deluded one claiming to be God while the other was the famed French writer Balzac.
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