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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1914
Page
6
Excerpt from A Farmer's Notebook by EH. D. Phelps compares frost and drought in a winter meadow. The ground stiff and colorless, stones exposed, humus hard, hedgerows still show life while hoof prints and puddles from last seasons linger as signs of past moisture and movement. The piece notes color returning with mild moisture.
The names Tabitha and Dorcas trace their origins to a gentle gazelle and mean dark beautiful eyes. Dorcas conveys the idea of dark and beautiful eyes while Tabitha reflects similar lineage.
The passage argues that conceit alienates friends and draws enemies, making the conceited person harsh to inferiors and disrespectful to betters, a vice with broad social consequences.
The veteran actor C W Couldock plans to assemble a company for a possible tour with recruitment from a Cleveland stock company. He questions an actor named Ogden about salary and board and proposes a drastic personal savings plan ending in a hatchet act, though Ogden is not engaged.
South African natives say the mopane tree is often struck by lightning while the morala tree is never touched. The saying highlights local beliefs about trees and natural phenomena.
A London Chronicle piece notes professional beggars in the city using varied schemes to extract money. It describes a distraught governess in Oxford Street and a stranded journalist who avoid high society aid, plus a grandmotherly beggar who asks for a pledge in exchange for future repayment, warning readers to refuse.
The article contrasts fish that guard their young with small clutches under 100 eggs to species that neglect offspring and lay hundreds of thousands or millions at once. It notes a natural law where greater parental care corresponds to fewer eggs and less parental care yields far more offspring.
The London Morning Chronicle notes a Newbery scheme praising Nurse Truelove's New Year Gift aimed at children, promising gratis books for boys and girls who wish to be great, with binding charged at 2d. It also highlights Newbery's side ventures like Dr James' Powder and its mentions in Goody Two-Shoes.
The polka originated in Bohemia and was danced by peasants for centuries. Josef Neruda popularized it in fashionable society after observing a girl dancing in Elbelinitz market and recording the melody and steps.
The Springfield Republican weighs risks of activity for older adults. It notes age is not just years but health, heredity, and lifestyle. It warns vigorous activity may injure those who have led sedentary lives or who overestimate their youthfulness.
In Russia only eleven in ten thousand people are mad, in England the rate is 32 in ten thousand.
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