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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1904
Page
7
Bart Af Pratt argues that many daily delays are mental obstacles and that learning from others and one’s own experiences can reduce costly mistakes. He urges planning ahead, facing difficulties, and building resilience by using small daily challenges to strengthen the mind as one trains with dumbbells.
A wealthy man tracked down a missing glove at a summer resort after a stage pulled away from the station. The glove, once separated from its mate, was found on the ground by the platform. The incident leaves riders pleased and framed as a lesson that careful conduct and daily skill growth improve everyone.
A suburban railroad owner faced tragedy with four passenger deaths and a major fire. The speaker recalls meeting the owner, explaining accuracy research, and the owner’s rejection. The lesson: blame cannot fix outcomes. time and practice enable conveying useful plans to prevent future trouble.
A fragmented reflection on youth development through games. It weighs physical, mental, and spiritual benefits, noting near completion of a thought on spirituality and its role in growth.
A man pursues a target through a skyscraper seeking a specific room on the fourteenth floor then the eighth floor. Misleading floor numbers and shifting offices hinder him until a clerk directs the eighth floor, where he learns what he sought though the original contact is absent. The experience leaves him with obscured impressions and lingering doubt.
A man seeks his plumber finds the business moved to a neighbor’s address then learns the plumber’s new location is at the square center. He searches from shoe store to corner to plumbing shop and back to the old site while a punning twist describes the man’s back having no eyes and the legs traveling to compensate.
Surprises arise as foundations and people of the world join in beginnings in Wa. The text hints at a fragmented panorama of cities, events, and shared destinies shaping a troubled era.
The piece reflects on Mizpah as a lasting benediction while sharing excerpts from Nathan L. Buchman and Swedish temperance movements. It notes collaboration among Good Templar lodges, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, and details W C T U guidance against white ribbon remedies and a vegetarian, fasting plan with periodic sweats to curb alcohol cravings.
The Sydney Daily Telegraph reports exhaustive investigations on liquor traffic and crime. Governors and officials testify drink fuels imprisonment and insanity, with statements noting large crime shares, destitution linked to excess drinking, and a substantial prison population due to drunkenness.
The Total Abstinence Association of Denmark met at Horsens with about 800 delegates. President notes 55 000 members, yearly gain from 8 000 to 4 000. Jubilee planned next year in Copenhagen. Swedish journalists form abstinence press group. Norwegians and Danes may join. Sweden hosts large temperance rallies with 1 500 to 8 000 attendees. In Helsingborg 7 000 people joined street procession and bands.
A historical meditation on licensing of liquor selling in a great Western city. The author asks readers to imagine every customer recorded and traced from first to last drink, revealing wrecked lives and homes. Questions about conscience, judgment, and the moral cost of the trade are posed.
In a Miss Mario C. Brehm address, the liquor traffic is not strong in truth or morality but derives power from moral and political backing. Remove legal support from political good men, and it would lose license and protection, revealing its true weakness.
A Boston Globe prescription urges temperance work to focus on the nation’s youth. It argues excessive drinkers delay change until harm is inevitable, while the young are impressionable yet energetic. Demonstrating alcohol’s grim outcomes may deter youth from begins its deadly path.
An early automobile line will link Kehl and Rhein Bischofsheim, a ten mile route replacing the old Baden omnibus service. The twenty passenger car will carry baggage and mails, with round trips at 17 cents and one-way at 10 cents. The two towns own the car, covering running costs and sharing profits.
The New York Central Railway plans a large substitution of electricity for steam to expand local traffic. A section of the Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg line will be electrified quickly, allowing electric cars to operate along the southern shore of Lake Ontario. Rochester and suburban lines will be absorbed, and New York New Haven and Hartford also pursues this policy with about eighty five miles already in service.
A May Manton pattern No. 4590 offers a two material waist with a maize peau de soie base and cream Venetian lace over white mas seline. It includes a graceful bertha, point d esprit yoke, and net bertha details, priced and mailed on receipt of ten cents.
An craft arrangement uses six pasteboard druggist boxes with skeletal drawers. Each drawer bears a button to indicate contents such as white pearl or bone buttons. A hook and eye and safety pin mark other drawers. Satin ribbon ties the unit into a neat cape-like holder.
A refined warmed over chicken dish. Chop chicken fine and mix with milk sauce thickened with flour and butter. Season with salt and pepper, simmer fifteen minutes, optional mushrooms. Heap on toasted bread squares and serve with poached egg garnish.
A fragment describes using cold or boiled mutton cut into dice for mutton salad placed on crisp lettuce leaves. It suggests seasoning with salt and pepper and covering with mayonnaise dressing, noting additions like capers and vegetables such as asparagus mixed with the mutton.
The article describes new sleeve styles for dresses, noting that sleeves mark the season’s look. It highlights a center model in peau de cygne with corticelli trim, a shirted sleeve with cuff, and a flowing evening sleeve, with pattern 4614 offered in small, medium, and large bust sizes and yardage for materials.
Parisians favor the white plisse lawn frill worn over a plain blouse bodice. One lavender linen version features a closely fitted bodice with a pouch in front, and a scarf threaded through crochet rings. A white muslin hat with blue and mauve forget-me-nots completes the look.
Opals gain popularity among girls despite old-time superstition. Jewelers note opals may grow costlier if demand continues. Cheaper than beauty suggested, superstition kept ownership low. An opal ring with surrounding brilliants makes a charming setting as diamonds mirror opal colors. Is it better to keep dignity than linger on superstition.
Readers can secure any May Manton pattern illustrated above by mailing 61 blanks and 10 cents to E. Harrison & Co. 65 Plymouth Place Chicago. Pattern will be mailed promptly.
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