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Newspaper
Orange County Observer
Location
Hillsborough, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1903
Page
1
A poetic fragment by John Greenleaf Whittier explores the enduring power of song and the poet’s humble fame. It reflects on critics, envy, and the solace the muse offers to a solitary creator. Dated Taverhill, Eighth Month, 1827, from the New York Independent.
An unnamed narrator visits a friend who recalls a haunting aboard a New York to Galveston steamer. In a bridal stateroom a spectral figure and three knocks recur each anniversary of a couple's tragic murder suicide linked to a family crime. The captain explains the tale and the shoreward mood lingers as dawn arrives.
Sir Henry Irving praises Carnegie's call for libraries to support dramatic art and urges the alliance of commerce and culture. He argues that even successful industry needs beauty to elevate ambition, urging Scots and artists to have an “on the side of the angels” helper. Separately Dr Raphael Du Bois attributes natural sleep to carbonic acid buildup in the body.
A examination of how infants first vocalize and form sounds leading to language. The piece notes that early babble centers on vowel sounds with "ma" often the first articulate syllable, reflecting the mother as the primary caregiver and source of comfort. It cites cross linguistic parallels and suggests this word's primacy spans aeons.
R M Taylor of Amelia County Virginia, with two friends and a pup, killed six quail with a thirty inch double barrel shotgun at thirty yards and fifty yards. The covey burst from pines and broom grass, annihilating the entire group in about two seconds. The shot used three drams of dense powder and No 8 shot. Second item describes a London street incident where a wife takes the wrong man’s arm during a conversation with her husband.
Authorities in Lyons examine Scaevola, an alleged anarchist, found tattooing covering his neck to heels. The artist was a former Lyons Art Academy student, his skin etched with sacred and secular scenes while he served as a cook on a sailing vessel. He ascribes pride in his decorations and hopes a museum will someday preserve them.
New York City evangelist Rev Dr J Wilbur Chapman preaches The Full Reward on temperance, dedication, and changing church methods. He urges Pentecostal living, warns against complacent membership, and emphasizes soul winning, personal sacrifice, and divine crowns for faithful service.
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