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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1914
Page
6
A Paris art museum guide leads a visiting lady through dim corridors to a private studio. She witnesses nude study and the living beauty of a lone maiden, provoking reverence and conflict with the surrounding sketches of students. The piece contrasts sacred artistic beauty with mortal doubt and intrusion.
A New Fork Tribune examination of extreme longevity notes widespread fascination with people who reach or exceed 100. It cites studies by experts, regional anecdotes from California to Toluca, and tallies from Ireland and the London Times obituary column to compare lifespans between Europe and America and between genders.
In a brief Puck note the Goon Fairy tells her assistant to lock a golden box in the safe containing good advice. The assistant questions the plan and wonders about the usefulness of such guarded wisdom.
A Washington Star fragment follows a young husband whose wife visits her mother at Chesapeake Beach for a month. He endures loneliness, flirts remotely with single friends, and clumsily fills his time with drinks, piano practice, trolley rides, and a bay visit as he frets over Patsie and the freedom of bachelor life.
Panama canal wage scale reductions prompt strong opposition among skilled labor. Goethals favors maintaining the current scale until construction ends, while unions plan to seek strike sanction if needed. Clerks and unorganized workers show little organized resistance, facing job losses from gradual force reductions.
Switzerland weighs an arrangement with United States grain interests to secure American wheat if war blocks trade. The plan envisions passing grain via frontier nations with Switzerland providing 100,000 sick and wounded soldiers to be cared for until war end. Dr. Hardy estimates annual costs at 35 million dollars and urges spending on the army.
Colonel Belvin and Maya are named as leading figures in Villa's artillery amid the Mexican revolution, with both cited for distinguished service in the revolutionary forces.
The article surveys several theories behind the Nine of Diamonds nickname in Scotland. It cites possibilities from a card game in Mary of Lorraine era to links with Sir John Dalrymple and Glencoe, noting doubts about any single explanation and marking the topic as unresolved.
Alaska shows little private wagon road work with minimal private ownership. Public railroads could unlock vast settlement and city building as favorable climate and new opportunities attract Americans and immigrants to the frontier.
Secretary Daniels has boosted navy enlistments to 31,301, the full Civil War era quota, by promising opportunities shown at recruiting stations. He shifts from idealized sailor life to emphasize real sea service and duty, countering earlier exaggerated recruiting posters.
A concise note champions the ideal garden as more than a cabinet of decorative or utilitarian aims. It argues true garden space should fit human comfort and personal occupancy, offering flowers shrubs and a place to work or rest. Even a small plot can be valuable if it serves daily life.
A humorous verse recounts a printer reading a mischievous manuscript. The speaker notes the printer’s escalating laughter and physical reactions, culminating in a humorous catastrophe as the prank grows.
A survey of women’s progress across nations notes Tokyo’s 5000 geisha, 700+ female physicians in Britain, New York teachers, and rising suffrage in 14 states. Dancers, architects, and public officials gain prominence while payroll gaps and legal reforms attract attention.
The New York Mall weighs Elihu Root as Republican senator prospect and William Barnes as delegate at large for a New York constitutional revision. It argues conservative stalwarts Root and Barnes would symbolize GOP aims while masquerading as radicals risks alienating voters. George Albert Wallace of Damariscotta, Maine, is noted.
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