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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1903
Page
7
A long piece from Letters From a Self-made Merchant to His Son offers blunt guidance on marriage. It cautions against marrying for money, warns about in-laws and old debts, and favors choosing a practical, decent partner with portrayed humor about romance and reality.
Excerpt from George Horace Lorimer's Letters From a Self made Merchant to His Son. It argues plain truths for success, noting that steady business virtues build character while excuses and laziness undermine reliability. The essay humorously contrasts office clockwatchers with disciplined workers.
A Harvard lecture by Rev. Washington Gladden prompts a freshman to declare he is an agnostic. The clergyman asks for a clear meaning of the term and the student remains confident, while the exchange highlights youthful doubt and the clash of belief. Buffalo Courier.
Jacob Watrous, once driven by poverty to seek fortune, struck it rich in the Klondike and returned to Meriden to surprise his wife and son. He learned she had remarried his friend after hearing of his death, decided not to disturb their happiness, and planned to return to the Klondike while others spread the secret.
Ancient Egypt treasured the cat above other revered animals. Cats were pampered during life and mummified after death, with elaborate wrappings and gilded heads. Rich felines could be placed in bronze boxes with cat statues atop, resembling bottles of wine in braided straw.
Members of a traveling theatrical company were arrested in Iowa for performing Romeo and Joliet on Sunday. The charge is expected to stand, as touring companies typically perform Shakespeare on Sundays, and similar shows have caused riots by representations on other days of the week.
A faded, battered man stands before a magistrate charged with drunkenness. The judge laments the prisoner’s fall and notes the humiliation of arrest, dungeon confinement, and public trial while the accused protests injustice over the magistrate’s split infinitives.
The article explains rapid yeast growth with cells forming buds on parent cells, some remaining attached as branches and others dispersing as free cells. It shows exponential doubling each minute, predicting 2, 4, 8, 32, 1024, and 32768 cells after 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, and 15 minutes, respectively, from a single starting cell.
In New York three life insurance institutions dominate the market. Two are mutual associations and one is incorporated. their financial operations closely mirror those of the United States treasury. They hold cash and quick assets nearly equal to the secretary of the treasury’s usable resources.
Heligoland, the island exchanged by Britain for African territory, is reported to be eroding away by wave action leaving little trace of the landmass. The tale notes the geopolitical swap and the island’s shrinking shoreline as the sea encroaches.
The article weighs the flight design of ancient birds and extinct pterodactyls. It argues wingspan, body weight, and wing area vary across species, noting frigate birds excel by skill, albatrosses are light for their speed, and pterodactyls boasted long wings with light bodies, enabling easy flight despite large wings.
The Boston Journal reports a slip by Carroll D. Wright United States Commissioner of Labor claiming average wage as 4.45 a year. Audience laughs as a spectator corrects to 445 dollars per year while Wright concedes with a pause and a laugh.
A Wichita poisoning case prompts a correspondent to seek a reliable test to distinguish mushrooms from toadstools. The Kansas City Journal notes Artemus Ward’s quip: if you eat them and live, they are mushrooms. if you eat them and die, they’re toad stools. The method is simple, suggested for family use.
In a Providence Journal report William F Blake faces assault charges from Meernan after a February 23 incident at a Westminster street saloon. Meernan testified about a blow dislodging four teeth and thrice kicks but admitted the teeth were false, remarking they were all he had.
A flying frog in Borneo uses expansive membranes on its feet to glide between trees. The webs function like wings, helping the creature traverse gaps much as early aviation did for human inventors.
A Riviera visitor in a London hotel received a note from the wife of a wealthy American, asking if he would surrender his first floor rooms to her niece who reportedly does not drink. The reply questioned the niece’s abstention and implied difficulty in reaching upstairs.
The tale recalls Jessie, a small observer in a sewing circle, delighted by kitchen activity. She watches servants at work and proclaims Mary is cooking the clothes for dinner after witnessing a laundry boil. The scene captures a child’s astonished wonder at domestic tasks.
The Cosmopolitan argues longevity of medical men lags behind other professions. success favors those with sound bodies. The sick look to war with confidence, seek dogmatic zeal, cheerful optimism from good digestion, and obedience to a kindly doctor. Much power lies beyond pills and theories.
In a Sunday school, children discussed patience with a teaching card showing a boy fishing. After explaining the virtue, the teacher asked what we need most for fishing, and all voices cried out Balt. signaling a playful misunderstanding and communal humor from the lesson.
London correspondent reports Kaffirs in British South Africa are rapidly increasing in numbers, outstripping whites who face job cuts from cheap Indian labor. Land is held only on leases from Boers, with eviction looming, heightening risk of a native uprising in the near term.
The 1902 wheat harvest in New South Wales dropped to one tenth of 1901, costing wheat growers over £2,000,000. Grain hay and vegetables suffer similar losses while the pastoral industry faces severe declines. Flocks and herds shrink with 47,401 horses, 319,461 cattle and 1,569,682 sheep. At low rates the cash loss nears £8,000,000.
A humorous exchange reveals a husband admitting uncertainty about his wife’s managerial skills after reading about diplomatic management of husbands. He concedes she may be the best and cleverest manager he’s encountered.
A distressed mother, seeking help after losing her maid while expecting visitors, asks a janitor for aid. He responds with awkward sympathy, calling her a mother to the girl, and notes the girl is as dark as a negro, a remark the woman receives with reservations.
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