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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1910
Page
7
The piece argues life is livable through health and balance, noting poverty or harsh stress can dull livability. It urges personal change such as healthier living, simpler pleasures, and slower pace, with a country move or reduced work to reclaim joy, friendship, and the beauty of daily life.
An essay argues that many people appear dull not from lack of intellect but from unused potential. Everyday examples show brains asleep in tasks from misplacing hooks to misreading signs. Remedy lies in appealing to reason and judgment to engage attention and memory, especially with children.
A short meditation on how wishing alone fails without backbone. Wishing should drive purposeful effort rather than replace work, with the wish-bone emblematic of a small hope and backbone representing initiative and achievement.
A woman dithers over an umbrella, delaying a busy milliner and customers. The piece argues fussiness stems from poor sense of proportion, wastes time, and harms work. It advises deliberate prioritizing, sitting to plan hours of work, and steadily barring trivialities to conquer the habit.
A quixotic children's page presents short vignettes about Billie Bubble and talking objects. The Brown Jug explains lemonade and picnics, a fly hook alarms a cautious fish, and a pocketbook brims with coins awaiting a finder. A brief Mattie Mouse scene ends the strip with kitten mischief and a commemorative verse about Bayard Lincoln.
A gloomy peculiar line has a speaker lamenting why a baby is crying. The other character replies that the child always cries and that they rarely encounter anyone who does not view the world gloomily.
From the New York Evening Sun, a humorous meditation on the number three. It examines how repetition shapes agreement, habit, and acceptance, detailing how a third repetition shifts perception and softens initial resistance through familiar cadence and tone.
A jumble of quirky notes on public figures including George W. Aldridge the New York Republican boss and a Rochester fire engine named for him. Anita Comfort-Brooks presides Gotham club and publically teases her husband rooksie. Other items cite James N. Adams political hooks, Senator Benn Conger’s folding typewriter sale, Andrew J. White’s tobacco odor, and Chancellor Kay’s preference for live speeches over prepared types.
A column lists quirky observations about Vermont cider barrels squeezing out last drops reducing capacity to about 33 padrons adiy low. It notes cheese imports from New York state escape tariff effects on price. It claims boll weevil damage to Will street cotton and hats matching dance tickets defy logic. It mentions steam and jet air forming condensed forms and oddly asserts concrete can be steel. It cites Chinese ancestors worship and finds from lost lunch keys and pocketbooks returning rates with empty items only.
The article traces football origins across nations from Greece to Rome and beyond. It notes episkuros pastum and early ball games, linking them to soccer and rugby while mentioning Vght ball in the Philippines and leather balls in Jeskhno culture. It ends with a Frisian skull tale and a wry closing remark on women and marriage.
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