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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1913
Page
9
A column from the Times Republican reflects on perseverance through dialogues about staying power and quitting. It quotes a doctor, financier, teacher, and sports scenes to stress pluck, endurance, and stubborn perseverance as keys to success. The piece urges young readers to admire persistence over flashy starts.
Local retailer L. J. Carter and Son reportedly sells lightning odds lotf, a curious marketing item attracting attention from shoppers. No further details available.
An item contrasts etiquette for a refined lady with new Austrian service laws. It urges clear articulation and quiet, tasteful dress, then shifts to 19th century reforms where servants are renamed employes, fed properly, and forbidden to gossip. Laws also limit outings and alter mistress duties in domestic settings.
A serious conker disease threatens potatoes in Britain and Cantheentil dae j role endangering farms and consumer health. The ailment, described as a fungus with excrescences, survives boiling and is not killed by normal processing. Potatoes imported from Europe may have carried the canker to Newfoundland. however, no wide outbreak is noted in Canada or the United States yet.
From New York, former police chief Uyrnes notes Ellen EB. R. Peck as a skilled swindler in her eighty second year. Her ten year sentence was commuted by Governor Dix. He states she never knew a better inn and could have become a first class captain of industry if her talents had been directed.
European authorities run special schools for stutterers with several types of programs. Most cases recover within four to five months. Relapses may occur, prompting a second or third course of treatment.
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