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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1909
Page
2
Random snippets recount a comic train scene in which a guard lifts a young girl into a shared compartment, Walter’s muttered exchange about birds, and a chatter of opinions on municipal ownership and public control schemes. The piece blends travel humor with editorials on industry, transport, and energy policy.
Napoleon's widow 83 and Princess Parlaghy arrive in America to undertake portraits of 25 prominent Americans. In a recent interview she reportedly refused to paint John D. Rockefeller, claiming he is too selfish. The article notes her Nice Chateau St Jean porte cochere view.
Andrew Carnegie tells a humorous tale of a Scot and his wife Nancy and a heaven marriage. A London report reviews Empress Eugenie de Montijo’s life from Granada birth to exile after the fall of Napoleon III, detailing her rise, marriage, ambition, and fall, with notes on her health and later years.
Diverse clippings report on Prevost's curious kitchen habits and the fattening of ortolans, a report on China’s anti opium crusade with graduated penalties, a Scotch memorandum praising singing for health, London's new fire chief Sampson Sladen with a 4600 salary, a dying parishioner's final Amen remark about men versus women, and plans for an under river tunnel linking Philadelphia and Camden to outpace ferries and bridges.
A collage of anecdotes and projected ventures from a 1910s newspaper page. Jerrald mocks nervy adaptors on first nights while jokes emerge from Belgrade weddings and veiled brides. Norfolk rents a vast urban estate, Mexico plans an agricultural congress, Tokyo's streetcar boom, and a colossal Chicago locomotive. Chao Ping-chumn retires over opium, U S wireless stations number 67, and Rosirio Argentina builds a 1 million dollar grain elevator.
In a late night supper scene at a Sixth Avenue eatery the renowned Irish waiters note a special of clams freshly landed from the water. A well known patron asks what is good today and the waiter whispers that the clams are so excellent the staff themselves are consuming them.
The Princeton Alumni Weekly highlights the clever humor of gargoyles and grotesques on campus buildings. Beyond conventional heads, the ornamentation features tigers and nameless monsters in contorted poses, offering a fascinating study of whimsical carvings from the past decade.
A poetic tale contrasts cherished human bonds with wealth as a man clings to a friend a child and a loving home. The scene shifts to a modern note describing a new machine that automatically weighs measures medicine and fills eight capsules.
Evelyn Thaw discusses her life with Thaw and the Stanford White murder during a candid interview. She says she tried to prevent White's murder for three years, accuses Thaw of stealing her from White, and explains her views on marriage, motherhood, and pursuing art over personal ties.
Former North Carolina Governor Glenn relates a Buffalo Commercial anecdote about President Taft boosting the possum into fame. Three colored men debate the nation's direction at a crossroads. Elder Jackson calls the country doomed, pessimist. Wider Hightower sees a nearing panic and cotton prices rising, an optimist. Deacon Powell shades his view with a cryptic possum metaphor.
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