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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1904
Page
2
A reflective essay on embracing defeat as a path to future success. It argues that losses can bless progress, urging readers to smile through setback with faith in a divine or future solution. The text promotes gathering examples of perseverance from mechanical, commercial, and professional lives to inspire others.
The writer admits missteps from handing part of an order too soon and failing to repeat delivery, causing mixed results. He reflects on appointments missed, misplaced seriousness, and whether both parties shared the same subject, noting national wars have started from misunderstandings.
An essay begins with a child misplacing poles and expands to show how asking "What's the matter?" prompts inquiry. From a suspected office finance issue to farming and medicine, the refrain becomes the start of systematic investigation leading to better methods and understanding.
A speaker notes that tiny audiences, even a single person, can spark big opportunities. He describes an hour long lecture to three company officials on cutting mutual mistakes and saving costs in sickness, crashes, and misunderstandings. He plans to leverage early efforts to attract larger audiences and funding later.
A compact guide on cooling anger through self-control and careful speech. It likens anger to fire and water as a metaphor for restraint, noting the harm of ill chosen interventions and the value of timely, right words to help disputing friends regain congeniality. Desire and study build peacemaking ability.
A reflective piece on temperance and self control suggesting we store past compliments and reminders as balancing aids. It argues memory is a vast storehouse of wisdom for forethought and steady judgment. The author cautions happiness can mislead and urges disciplined recall to guide daily reactions.
Since arriving in Dalhousie India we heard of the crumbling ruins of Chumba a very old town tucked in the southern Kashmir mountains. After many inquiries we learned its location far in the peaks at Kashmir’s southern edge. We groaned at leaving our bungalow and view but decided the journey was necessary as rain seasons peak and the weather echoes early October.
A travel diary describes a Kashmir excursion starting at dawn from a forest path to a valley lake where a shifting island moves across the water. It notes charcoals, local dress with eighteen yard skirts, temple visits, Hanuman and Ladismi shrines, and encounters with joyous women, children, and vendors in a colorful bazaar.
A poem fragment opens with resolve for a new year, then shifts to a Vermont license law clause banning intoxicating liquor “to drink in the deceased premises” in a treat-like setting. Authorities vow strict enforcement and temperance workers plan prosecutions to curb “treating” and social drinking. Washington Post notes the potential impact.
Swiss authorities reveal undercounting of alcohol related deaths due to secret drinking and concealment by relatives and doctors. A Berne system uses anonymized reports to connect data, showing delirium tremens deaths at about 0.5 percent for men over 20, and alcohol as a primary or contributing cause in 10 percent of deaths for men over 70. Overall acute or chronic alcohol related deaths reach about 3 percent, prompting stronger temperance efforts and a note that other nations may hide similar figures.
The piece argues that alcohol harms vital processes and overworks organs. It warns that alcohol appetite is cumulative and self-reinforcing, and that a drink leads to more. It describes a two chapter life for drinkers, one avoidable, the other doomed, and asserts habit strength and willpower limits. It concludes abstinence yields absolute good.
The Vermont faculty of finding a law to fit every agitation claims another attorneys’ trick. When public sentiment hardens into a demand on money or morals, lawyers say a former legislature provided for such emergencies. The latest is an anti-treating law prompted by temperance advocates opposing social hosting.
London authorities including the licensing magistrates and the London County Council theaters and music halls committee weigh abolishing barmaids. The National Union of Women Workers and British Women's Temperance Association urged action, with council members signaling a gradual, non precipitous approach to inform proprietors before broader measures.
Four years under the inebriate acts 1897 to 1900 indicate about 70 percent of habitual drinkers are curable. England and Wales run thirty one treatment institutions with two state managed worst cases at Aylesworth for women and Warwick for men. Of these, ten percent are insane, seventy percent on the borderland, and twenty percent sane but bad, with only a small cure rate but notable social improvement.
A satirical piece describes a “fourth rail” eight inches above the floor in bars that supposedly supports a drinker’s foot. It argues the habit is widespread and mentions cafes and gin mills, noting the article could reveal character or lost characters.
A fragmentary opinion piece condemns alcohol as the nation's greatest curse, citing wrecked lives and poverty. It recalls a Southern educator who called slavery the greatest curse, drawing a parallel to strong drink as a social blight.
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