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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1905
Page
1
Edmund Gosse in Firdansi in Exile and Other Poems imagines two speakers marching together against fate and ignorance. The verse contrasts solitary struggle with shared resolve as lovers unite to face a vast, hostile world.
Addie Arlington seeks wealth in London courting rich suitors until a Lord Venner offers marriage and she then spurns wealth for engineer Philip Melton. Melton reveals he is Silverdale heir and wins Addie with honesty, while Venner accepts the ruse and welcomes his future son-in-law.
A Missoula dispatch reports the Big Blackfoot railroad has resumed operations after severe weather. The line runs 13 miles from Camas prairie to the Blackfoot river, hauling 30 car loads of logs daily to the Bonner mill. Two cog wheel Shay engines and 50 logging cars power the line, with $300,000 invested in two years. About 200 workers cut timber in the hills and 300 labor in the Bonner plant. 23,000,000 feet of logs await at McNamara landing, with more to come as rail facilities expand capacity for a year round operation.
Puck remarks about a man called Spuds whose two daughters recently wed foreign nobles. The cartoonish line notes the rich growing poorer and the poor richer, reflecting social satire of marriages into wealth and status.
Practical advice urges tired mothers to schedule afternoon rest to keep family well. The Rochester Post-Express describes the latest Panama turban with roses and velvet, white serge fashion, and shirt waists in translucent fabrics. The Chicago Women’s Athletic Club pool scene is described, plus gloves tips and a strong call for women to act as angels of the house and public life.
A collection of aphorisms on hope honesty and growth contrasts with news about pianists Paderewski Kubelik and Hofmann who purchase extensive accident insurance for hands and fingers. The piece notes policies totaling thousands annually and a potential 50000 payout for permanent disability.
Herbert Van Dyke, longtime street youth advocate in New York, rails at leniency for college boys. He cites a college fire scene where students hindered firemen and a theatre bombing that harmed ballet performers, arguing the poor boys would be jailed as thugs.
An English paper recounts a life scene in Whitechapel where a man plans to eject rivals from a public house. A friend warns him, then a sudden dash of punches unfolds as the counter declares it is the aggressor himself.
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