28 Aug 1902
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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1902
Page
1
A nostalgic verse recalls a blackberry patch as a doorway to childhood. A freckled boy leads the speaker through tangled rows to secret corners, nests, a spider web, and the den of a bandit, revealing that the boy is the speaker in disguise. The poem ends with dawn returning the narrator to adulthood.
A dialogue between a renowned criminal and a wealthily salwart philanthropist unfolds. The criminal dismisses reform as impossible while the philanthropist promotes education, mental science, and humane future prisons. The conversation shifts to religion, hypnosis, and brain science as paths to criminal change, ending with the criminal’s abrupt departure and the philanthropist discovering his worn watch and gift missing.
Merchants in a Toledo street rent a free passenger station with newsstand and parcel check room. Five streetcar lines bring 5000 passengers daily. stores provide benches and lockers. Any citizen may rent a locker to receive packages for five cents a day. The experiment, begun by merchants, may be copied elsewhere. A London paper warns of a dangerous sleep substitute touted by fashionable society, drawing parallels to tea and the neglect of natural rest.
Grover Cleveland argues success for the self made man includes duties beyond wealth or fame. Wealth must aid society, while education should not be hoarded. True reward lies in duty performed, charity, culture, integrity, frugality, patriotism, political judgment, religion, and moral welfare.
By J. G. Hallimond, Superintendent Old Bowery Mission New York. The most satisfying Christian work is personal service to the needy, not distant gifts. Those who give of themselves gain the supreme joy of seeing true relief and transformation in others, beyond mere monetary aid.
W Hugh Walker argues America leads in elementary education for opportunity and training while England limits rural advancement. He contrasts national free schooling, social aims, and discipline, suggesting Britain could learn from America and America could graft England’s authority-based discipline, while noting dangers of corporal punishment.
The Rev J Wilbur Chapman of Fourth Presbyterian Church preaches on A Lost Saviour from John 20 13. He links Mary Magdalene s grief to others who lose fellowship with Christ, discusses related biblical themes and danger of losing one s Lord, and ends with a moral urging faithfulness amid trial and worldly temptation.
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