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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1903
Page
2
The catalog from Charles E. Watt, Director, advertises piano only instruction with twenty experienced teachers and weekly concerts. Special theory classes and child piano training are offered along with piano tuning courses at Kimball Hall 248 Wabash Ave Chicago Illinois.
Henry Harland, while vacationing near Norwich Connecticut, owed Deacon H a quarter. He intended to pay on Sabbath but left at 4 30 a m to Yale long winter term. In the dark dawn he called a cabman and found the Deacon waiting to collect the quarter as he prepared to depart.
The Dickson School of Memory at the Auditor ium building in Chicago is highlighted this week. Readers are urged to commend Mr. Dickson as a reliable, honorable, conscientious and capable instructor, with correspondents urged to rely on his statements.
On Catamount hill in Colrain Mass a monument marks the site of the first flag raised over a public school house in the United States. The flag was displayed in May 1812 from a log school house on the hill.
A collection of pointed aphorisms contrasts luck and lucklessness in love money and fame. Observations on honesty vanity and aging mingle with jabs at bill collectors fashion and wills, reflecting a witty ballast of social commentary.
A dying soldier speaks of a golden rod in sunlight and a sweet flower. He dreams of a kiss and bids farewell to his bride as gunfire echoes. He asks the maid of gold to tell his comrades his love and awaits eternal rest.
IL L I A M Grey, known as the millionaire Grey, retires after fifty years in business. He recalls the boy Billie, who found a pocketbook and sparked his lifelong ambition to wealth. Now at six oclock, he plans to enjoy dinners, silver, and a red dress for his wife, recalling his boyhood dreams in retirement.
A. L. Williston argues in Engineering Magazine that fuel cost comparisons depend on locality. Using New York City and the coal and oil prices given, oil shows a potential saving of about 72 percent in a large plant, with wide variation in other regions.
A once-wealthy man, displaced by years in business, confronts lack of meaning as he reads and reflects. He sees his family as strangers, recalls childish ambitions, and realizes there are more things in life than money. A note ends with warning against age old Jew hatred.
The Baltimore American reports a court scene where a bailiff presents a vagrant charged with vagrancy. The justice questions the defendant about homelessness and employment, noting a prior drug store venture as a failed livelihood, and sentences him to ninety days.
A humorous brief from the Ann Arbor Commercial Tribune featuring a maid at the door and Professor Absentmind declining to leave a name, joking he may need it himself before seeing Mr. Jonesmith again.
The article notes that as much as 69 percent of saving in oil burning may be less than 72 percent and that some points show no difference in cost. Two illustrations demonstrate where oil use yields large savings and where it is impractical.
Charlies Washburn, an auctioneer in the fruit exchange beside the Erie railroad pier, was interrupted by Inspector Bayard Fuller and a policeman. They displayed a disreputable emigrant who wandered from his boarding house and could not find his way back. The inspector asked if he understood any language, remarking the man did not.
A collection of aphoristic lines notes that a timely base hit can save a baseball nine, bricklayers in Boston earn 55 cents hourly, and that personal effort builds wealth. It asserts men’s iron will, women listen more than they speak, and pawnbrokers stay vocal as long as people tolerate them.
Dennard Ark September 7 Mr E J Hicks a Dennard merchant writes of a personal health recovery after decades of pain heart flutter stomach trouble and exhaustion. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with ending his suffering and restoring sleep appetite and strength.
Alfred Ernest Blake, who had seventh to ninth dorsal vertebrae removed after a fall in a Denver lodging house four years ago, says he can stand and will soon walk. Once paralyzed from the waist, he recovered nerve and muscle activity and now uses his body except his legs, insisting the day will come when he walks unaided.
一百美元悬赏声称治不好的鼻咽病。罗列 Cheney 公司、West Truax 及 WALDING KINMAN MARVIN 等 Toledo 药商的信誉担保。声称产品通过血液与黏膜作用治疗，提供免费推荐信，每瓶售价为 75 美分。
In a Washington Star commentary, Mr Dolan jokes about trusts trying to swallow the country. He maps a nation of diverse resources from Georgia watermelons to New Jersey peaches and California pears, suggesting only a large trust could trigger a systemic indigestion.
A brief note states that mothers will find Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy for children during teething. It emphasizes parental choice and product appeal for soothing gums.
Alaska yearly yields canned salmon valued not less than 8 million dollars with other Northern products contributing meaningfully. The United States bought Alaska from Russia and the deal is regarded as favorable.
President Harper faces a tax assessment dispute tied to a Chicago case involving the city and a university case. The issue centers on whether the Chicago university operates as an educational institution for tax purposes under local statutes.
An Irish barrister Sidney defends a boy accused of breaking into a house. The key evidence is a hat found below the window, which the boy allegedly wore. The jury acquits, and the boy asks for his hat, which sits on the solicitor’s table.
The potato’s origin is debated with roots in America likely in tropical or subtropical regions. Historical hints place early European introduction around 1565, with accounts describing a wild American root called bodado or potato. Sir John Wamking reportedly found wild tubers high in the Andes near Bogota at elevations of 8,000 to 13,000 feet.
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