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Newspaper
Prescott Daily News
Location
Prescott, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1908
Page
3
The News calls for support to fund the Democratic national campaign. Citizens are urged to send contributions to The News Bryan Campaign Fund in Prescott Arkansas. Remittance will be acknowledged promptly upon receipt.
A German publication by I Tane describes life in northern Siberia’s penal colonies. He returns after eight and a half years in Kolymsk grave. Young men face suicides hunger and insanity under 5 to 10 year political sentences. Mail arrives three times yearly. many await letters in vain. The memoir recounts hunger, abandonment, and the desperate acts of deported prisoners.
Fragmentary text shows a petitioner asking for a wife and talent key while a sequence of local events unfolds. The dialogue mentions a mill series, a far north trip, and various women’s organizations including Women’s Emancipation League, Sisters of Charity, policewomen’s council, and Daughters of toil, indicating a domestic scene intertwined with social commitments.
A fragment references a Women's Science Research class on Friday and a football club smoker on Saturday with a reminder of duty at home, concluding with a faded exclamatory remark. The text is fragmentary and contains no clear names, dates, or places to firmly identify additional details.
The piece argues that modern clothing and household conveniences create dangers from microbes and microbe brigands. It contends science and socialism push toward a return to barbarism and a simpler, natureward existence, urging abandoning houses and modern comforts.
A fragment from the Saturday Evening Post recalls a tale about a man in Chicago who stayed out late and walked in the street, asked why he did not walk on the sidewalks, and whether readers thought of Mr Blondin. It frames a humorous exchange amid a broader tariff debate.
A London Telegraph quip contrasts two burglars, one defining himself as a house to house Aaser to keep doors from squeaking. The joke plays on the notion of a professional thief turning to noise prevention as a cover for entry.
A brief Louisville Courier-Journal quip notes “take home a box of candy or bunch of flowers tonight” with a reply “What for I’m sober” highlighting a tongue in cheek push toward romantic gesture contrasted with sobriety. It reflects light local humor and social chatter.
The article notes Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s five sons forming a tight family loaning network across Frankfurt Vienna London Paris and Naples, guided by faith and maternal consent. It highlights Nathan Rothschild honoring his wife with control of wealth and counsel on major undertakings, and observes extensive cousin marriages within the line, including Lord Rothschild and Coningsby’s Sidonia. It mentions a later shift as three of Nathan’s granddaughters married outside the family and faith.
A New York Press observation notes the prevalence of open barber shop interiors with uncensored glass fronts that expose customers to passersby. The critic argues that despite modern lighting, there is no screening between patrons and the street, counting 200 parlors in a region and questioning the notion of male grooming as private.
A weather clerk explains rainfall in inches by referencing an acre's area and water volume. He notes that one inch of rain on an acre equals about 27,000 cubic inches, equating to roughly 2,000 gallons or 8,000 pounds, illustrating the immense volume involved.
A fragmented clipping from the Lamieville Courier Journal mocks outfits and fashion satire. It questions authenticity of garments as harmless fakes and includes playful dialogue about a cook and a dressmaker.
A paralyzed man being carried toward a southbound train to Lourdes leaped from a stretcher at a French station after a station-master urged haste for the Metz express. He claimed he felt cured and boarded the train, leaving porters astonished as he went home.
An actor recalls visiting Sioux Falls and observing men seeking divorces. He says he pretended to reveal his own reasons, crafting a composite case from the ideas submitted by the locals and enjoyed the acclaim as the season’s toast.
A Kansas City Journal excerpt shows two legislators mocking a spelling reform movement. The first says it isn’t practical and the second quips about a commission with a high salaried head and 17 lucrative jobs, then concedes its practicality.
Miss Violet Hank, a novelist, argues people discuss the red-haired girl rather than enjoy her. Mrs Elinor Glyn contends red-haired women are unhappy, while the girl herself calls her hair auburn and remains unaware she needs sympathy.
A light exchange between Mr Jolly and Miss Nexdore centers on the biblical injunction to love thy neighbor. The dialogue shifts from loving a neighbor to loving thy neighbor as thyself, noting the nuance between the commands.
A witty Detroit News Tribune excerpt features a young college man who gave an essay on The Uplifting of Mankind now humorously revealed as working an elevator in a department store. The exchange signals a turn from lofty ambitions to practical work.
Spongy chromium and chromium alloy form a brittle brittle cast by beating cast chromium with 15 percent borex and copper in an electric furnace. The spongy metal appears white and fluffy amid the reaper. Residue yields a nearly pure chromium alloy with interlaced layers. Small boron may be driven off by lemetine. The spongy chromium resists air but burns brightly in oxygen and reacts with hydrochloric and sulfuric acids, but not with nitric acid.
A Cincinnati paper questions usage of seasonal verbs as slang noting a resident’s irony about saying a man is falling in New York or springing in the mountains. It cites Isalat as authority and recalls a biblical image of fowls summering on mountains while beasts winter there.
A fragment shows a mother rebuking children for noise on Sunday while the eldest defends their game of war, arguing it relates to religion. The exchange hints at family dynamics and religious observance shaping play.
A boy Pietro aged 11 killed his sister Paola in 1870 Rome as pistol was being mended in a shop. Delayed by political upheaval and legal reforms, he aged 49 and has spent 88 years in detention. Fresh efforts to try him are planned.
The late George Winthrop Sands died last winter at St Moritz. A ball at the Kulm hotel and a parrot story linked to Sands is recounted by George Corns Wallis West, noting the African parrot’s comic lines about drinking and solitude.
The pattern features a shirt waist with center back plait and front ornament, full or three quarter sleeves, high collar and scalloped hand-embroidered cuffs. Sizes 13 to 17 years with yardage details for 20 27 and 36 or 42 inch fabrics. Send 10 cents to Pattern Department with name address size and pattern number.
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