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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1912
Page
5
The Kansas City Star argues that there are pleasures of the poor including reading, leisure, good meals, memories of childhood, and self sacrifice. It notes a link to De Quincey’s and Senator West’s stories and calls for eradicating needless poverty to restore these consolations.
The piece argues that while women seek new opportunities, men neglect fatherly duties and the family bond. It urges women and dutiful children to bring fathers back into the home circle, restoring masculine involvement and shared parental responsibilities.
The author notes that late dog days lessen fly and mosquito intrusion. Early warm spells drive insects indoors as screens are opened, but a late season means fewer bugs entering homes.
An electrical scientist killed mites in cheese by electric shock. He estimated about 5,000,000 mites in a two pound cheese. The question arises how it matters whether one eats a dead mite versus a living one.
The aviator predicts aircraft reaching about 200 miles per hour. He observes the public now fears speed and seeks safety over rapid travel, hoping to arrive alive rather than reach a distant goal quickly.
It is said that side whiskers and frilled shirts of the olden time are to be revived for masculine fashions. The denunciations which feminine styles have been receiving will now have the field of criticism broadened, and the women will have the chance of their lives to hit back.
The report covers a Des Moines court nullifying a new rate schedule after a vote, a Mary Longman design chosen for the Allison monument, oil discovery positivity at Blanchard, and Iowa parade notes. It also notes the Odd Fellows convention in Fort Dodge, a near ride on a railroad car, a Perry toy pistol accident, Guthrie Center fines, Catholic student gathering at Ames, and missionaries sailing to Bombay. additional items include crime trials, wrecks, bargains, school and church events, and local accidents across the state with names such as Allison, Longman, and Bradshaw appearing.
A church lesson discusses John 8 12 and Mark 8 11 26 focusing on Jesus as the light of the world. It notes the Pharisees demand for a sign and Jesus rebukes their hypocrisy while warning the disciples about leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. The piece also covers a healing of a blind man and Jesus leading him outside the village to restore sight.
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