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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
2
In Outing E P Powell argues that true wealth lies beyond fences, urging expansive glass fronts and wide verandas. Homes should embrace sky views, daylight, and open spaces with shaded hammock beds and comfortable furnishings to foster companionship and ease.
The article lists common golfing faults in order of importance and advocates watching top players like Findlay Douglas Walter Travis and Fred Herreshof to cure them. It stresses imitation by practice over theoretical instruction and notes the need for experiential learning beyond books.
In this piece on personal magnetism, O S Marden argues that a charming presence and refined manners can sway others, aid advancement, and open doors to opportunities even without exceptional talent. He notes business and social environments prize pleasing personality and courteous disposition.
A discussion on American attitudes toward health warns that chronic overindulgence and neglect erode bodily reserve. It argues that persistent abuse of diet sleep and activity weakens the body, increasing vulnerability to illness surgery accidents and emergencies.
The Chicago Tribune notes a shift toward hiring trained municipal workers, citing Milwaukee's health commissioner pick by a Socialist mayor who valued merit over locality. It argues expert municipal staff improve public health and governance while acknowledging disagreements on social theories. Also cited: British royals favor Balmoral as their home, per insurance estimates.
A composite children's page recounts playful verse about a runaway smile and a nurse, a quip about pockets, and brief humor items from Women’s Life and Christian Register. It also includes a Burmese rhinoceros blood superstition note and a short animal fable where a wise moth er’s birds and predators claim the field mice, ending with a question about which mouse stayed still.
A Virginia Tallmadge reminiscence in the New York Tribune describes a family picnic along an old farm wagon road. The party notices wildlife including a fawn and a chipmunk, then returns home to a hungry dinner. The piece closes with a moral about parenting and property rights. A separate tale, Doing As You Please, follows two boys debating ownership and parental authority, ending with a lesson on limits to spending and possession.
A group of workmen find five baby porcupines in a hollow while cutting trees. They care for them four miles to the employer’s children, who raise them in a barn. the porcupines grow tame and return to the family. A spring dawn opens the barn door and the family disappears.
Agricultural guidance on seed bed prep for milo including ploughing depth, soil mulch, early spring disking, and smooth sharrowing. Additional pieces cover grafting wax, fertilizers, inbreeding considerations in Jerseys, soybeans as a crop, and practical poultry notes on range, grit, and feeding.
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