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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
4
The News sends warm greetings for a bright year ahead and hopes readers carry courage and purpose to meet new opportunities. It acknowledges sorrow in some homes, praises endurance, prays for protection from danger, and closes with hopeful lines by Mary G. Slocum about the year’s grace and resilience.
In The Home and Family Column a couple, Samuel Tucker and Jane, reconcile after repeated rebuffs. He learns patience and commitment, likening marriage to farming, needing steady planting and cultivation. A Sunday reunion at church follows rain, sparking forgiveness and a renewed love, with a hopeful future for their home.
The Utah, the greatest battleship, was launched at Camden M J on December 25. It measures 5214 feet overall with ten twelve inch guns and sixteen five mele gens in its armament. Critics call the expenditure waste, but supporters argue such ships create labor and national wealth through production and policing duties.
A cond resolution urges kindness to all and choosing cheerful words. The tale recounts two brothers Christmas morning after playing Santa. One regrets a small gift, saying he bought only one game of sharp shooters, but the other replies that it was enough and not to worry.
A Herrin Illinois mine disaster last week left eight men dead and four hundred trapped or imperiled. Local rescue teams worked through dangerous conditions, while authorities ordered investigations and enforced safety checks at nearby mines.
Policy advocates social welfare and city focus urging enforced labor for non workers and public works to support dependents. It supports hospitalizing the insane, restraining liberty of the idle, and employing mendicants at fair wages to convert all capable individuals into producers.
A rare excerpt of The Closing Year by George D Prentice, noted as a leading 19th century poet born in Preston and editor of the Louisville Journal. The piece, published posthumously, is exceptionally scarce with few copies even in large libraries.
An odd fragment presents a resolute New Year sentiment credited to Pablo Oliver Wendell Hollies. The text urges self improvement and a loftier mindset, calling for a stronger resolve as one sheds old shells and rises beyond past limits.
The Danish University that received Dr. Cook's papers and his polar claim initially supported him but now brands him a fakir of the first water. Admiral Schley remains his advocate, yet this may not avert his disgrace.
Obituary tone notes the death of King Leopold of Belgium and condemns his rule in the Congo Free State. The piece labels him dissolute and crafty, highlights his exploitation, and questions the royal legacy. It mentions Prince Albert as crowned King Albert in Belgium, urging a better course.
Encouragement comes from helping others. The speaker urges looking for someone else whose shadows fall upon them and cheering them up to find new life and strength wash over your own heart.
Webb residents report Lizzie Thompson visiting Aurelia, Posts visiting Dubuque, Curtleright family receiving a rug from High School students, and many moves of Miss Spang to St Dodge. School dismissals, teachers returning home, and several teacher placements are noted alongside a census joke about Supervisor McCulla. Fifteen graduates, ten girls and five boys, reflect broad school support and harmony on the Board. Holiday events by A H Boyer and Ros Davis spread cheer.
Turner declares exposure to settle a dispute over lumber allegedly taken from the L Whitney house on West Second Street. The notice implies a dispute and potential settlement with involved parties.
A humor-filled exchange shows a teacher noting adjectives formed from nouns like dangerous and hazardous and a student joking that pious is full of pie. The dialogue shifts to a playful mix of secrets and promises about who told whom what, capturing lighthearted schoolyard banter.
The Washington Star repeats an aged anecdote about Hiram Doolittle forcing his wife Hannah to maintain a strict cash account. He audits weekly with grumbling phrases about household expenditures such as mustard plates and dental bills, lamenting the price of private spending.
In Osborn and Webb areas Christmas activities unfolded with shopping brisk in Sioux Rapids and Webb. A Mills child faced a serious finger injury prompting a Spencer trip for possible amputation. Sunday services encountered weather challenges yet Sunday school and Christian Endeavor sessions drew attendees. remarks urged generous giving to the Lord's poor.
Christmas visits and travel notes accompany local adverts and an administrator notice. Laurens and Royal hosts are named along with Spencer and Clemens Iowa, while December 1909 events are listed including a lecture and a court-administrator claim. Principal figures include Kassie Fred Sandberg Otto Johnson Esther Lawson and Harry Chamberlain.
B F Ayscue of Ingleside North Georgia tried many doctors and $200 in medicines for 15 years before using Dr King s New Life Pills. He claims they wholly cured him and endorse their use for constipation biliousness sick headache stomach liver kidney and bowel troubles. Available for 25 cents at Will W Haygarth Co.
Health depends on nature, interior balance. The advertisement urges keeping the aur system free of impurities by using Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea, promoted by O. A. Bjornstead & Co.
Plymouth Rock cockerels priced at 1.00 each until January 1, then 1.26. Contact C. W. McGar gar, 50th R. EF, D. No. 1, Spencer. Also promote cleanliness and Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a health cleanser. Calls to Mrs. BE H. Wing for ribbons and fancy work. Advertising blends poultry with health tonic claims.
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