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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1906
Page
7
An editorial panel debated Christmas fatigue and renewal, with one speaker predicting fresh inspiration from the theme and a second proposing a satirical Santa Claus exercise. Mike Michelangelo produced sketches, signed by artists, prompting a public referendum and discussion of originality.
In Nishima Japan a castle guards a gold lined well supplying water to the garrison. The well is fashioned into two large golden dolphins that glitter on the court. The dolphins are centuries old and one was once shipped to Vienna as an antique craft. The other tale tells of a sunken ship recovering the statue and restoring it to its original place for good.
A historical note contrasts East Indian schooling with England, stating that pupils as young as ten memorize the multiplication table up to 40 by 40, making mental arithmetic far more serious there than in English schools.
A survey of President Roosevelt's cabinet, noting departures from traditional precedents. It argues the American state relies on tradition less than past eras and highlights how Roosevelt's choices defy old practices, with commentary on the senate's conservatism and the president's rapid appointments shaping a new cabinet landscape.
Article notes 3,000,000 alligators killed in Florida from 1890 to 1900 amid demand for skins. It reports A. L. Campbell, a famed sportsman, starting an alligator farm in Arkansas to supply hundreds of tin sau rians and specimens from babies to 200-year-old alligators for sale.
A collage of antiquated facts and figures touches on navigation, mutability of names, currency, and military numbers. It notes Brit ish given names in early centuries, a Spanish navy count, a root cargo to Paris, and carrot varieties. It mentions iron production gains, a female police chief in Seville, the Virgin Child statue in Milan, and St Sidwell’s spire. It cites Paris and Prague as high municipal expenditures, Irish colliers’ fatality rate, German sickness insurance figures, language rankings, Australian birth rate, and land holdings of Gustav Jovanovitch. Various mentions include Thomas Wingfield de Kin, huntingdon land, and Bible pricing shifts.
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