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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1908
Page
3
Sick headache sufferers are urged to try Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills after Louise Lewellyn of Powell, S says the remedy gave speedy relief during painful attacks. The ad notes headaches stem from brain nerves linked to stomach and other organs and promises a money back guarantee if not benefited.
Poem laments Missouri abandoning democracy, recalls 4 years of politics and fruit from Egypt in a nostalgic plea for return to the home of real friends, contrasts misrule with welcome. Evokes figures of Democracy and references to mischief, temptation, and fruit that taints virtue.
A patriotic verse praising Oklahoma with bold odes to resilience and unity. The chant-like lines compare the state to a steadfast lass, urging courage and democratic vigor, and linking state pride to national symbols as the crowd rallies.
A Review of Reviews note compares tuberculosis mortality to wartime losses, estimating 150000 American deaths annually. The reflection urges awareness of this preventable scourge and the need for public health action against the disease.
In Jacob A Riis's Christmas Century piece Yuletide in the Old Town, Danish families bake cakes for two weeks of holiday feasts. The narrative recalls a shared warmth, generous giving, and the scent of balsam as New Year approaches, with celestial notes on Ursa Major and Ursa Minor concluding the excerpt.
The Yankee team that defeated top global athletes in London builds an Olympic club to keep the squad intact. Sponsor Harry Porter plans the club formation and Charlie Dieges designs a club pin. Only athletes will wear the athlete pin, with Sullivan Murphy and Halpin allowed to wear a near replica emblem.
A Washington theater display by Miss Ethel Roosevelt features big soft crimped waves swept back into a loose knot secured by a pearl toppéd comb. Satin ribbons with tiny pearls weave through the loose strands, creating an elegant daytime style.
A crowd in a summer hotel corridor watches Nora, a buxom Irish chambermaid, offer to help an aged scrubwoman with a heavy water pail. The hotel proprietor and another witness praise Nora as clever and generous, noting she earns more tips than two other girls each season.
An exploration of incomplete color blindness detailing how red green and violet blind individuals misperceive colors. Examples note how a red blind person sees the American flag with green and white stripes and violet stars on a violet field, while green and violet blind perceptions differ.
A young admirer visited her favorite author and confessed that the man did not resemble the literary idol. She described him as plain and imperfect, leaning on a garden gate in shirt sleeves, swearing at a grocer boy, with close cropped hair and an unshaven look, the most human specimen she had seen.
The article argues that the so called wickedest sea is not the Dover strait nor any famous yachting route. It claims the roughest waters are found around the Cape of Good Hope near eastern Cape Colony, contradicting common beliefs about other famed seas. It notes many travelers misplace the hazard in familiar channels and routes.
A Scotsman wears trousers not kilts or a kilt. The London News notes a Scotsman almost invariably wears trousers, despite a correspondent asking for the plural form. It cites Harry Lauder in a king’s presence wearing a kilt, but asserts the habitual Scotsman dress is trousers.
A gushing young woman declares she longs to talk and to go on the stage. The renowned actor responds with a courteous remark, noting her ambition. The exchange reflects theatrical ambitions and the social flirtation of performers.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip features a man asking why another wears a yachting cap and if his brother owns the yacht. The reply reveals the cap belongs to the brother, highlighting a light exchange about ownership and seafaring attire.
A compact aphorism notes beauty as part of language where goodness speaks, attributing elegance to expression. The line evokes aesthetic ethics, pairing linguistic craft with moral tone.
Riis recalls the Ansgarius legend of Faith Hope and Love guiding the first balsam fir chosen for its height width and cross on every bough. He contrasts it with modern electric-ornamented trees, arguing wax candles and simple homemade decorations preserve the kindly spirit of Yule.
A Venice correspondent recalls the 1902 collapse of the Campanile in Piazza San Marco and Gaetano Moretti’s later commission to rebuild. The plan uses the old foundation, a new marble top crowned by an angel, and statues by Sansovino to resume the watchtower’s legacy.
A famous Fifth Avenue New York restaurant has installed an automatic doorway using a wooden platform with doormats. The platform rises with the entering patron who then triggers levers to close the door. Opening and closing speeds are regulated, wind is not an issue, and an oil dash pot prevents slamming.
The forest school pamphlet for 1908 09 announces Yale university has obtained use of New Haven Water Company lands for practical forestry work. The tract totals about 9000 acres with over half already wooded and years of school management on part of it.
Armourdale Missouri police forecast a harsh winter by tracking hobos clothing. An officer remarked that gauge is based on how many garments a hobo wears, not goose breastbone or corn shucks, citing a Rock Stand yard example with many shirts trousers coats and a water jumper.
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