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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1910
Page
2
The Spencer News reports a letter from Karl Luft’s mother at Bitterfeld thanking mourners for sympathy after his fatal balloon accident near Reichenpachsen. The piece interweaves reflections on his joy in flight and the fatherland’s history with Sardinia and a note on Glasgow sobriety trends and temperance.
London’s education system is highlighted as exhausted by long effort while two thirds of skilled labor in the city comes from the provinces. The London Saturday Review questions whether London’s draw and wages reveal a weakness in city schools, amid scattered notes on industry and transport.
Nan Hayslope rebels against a summer visit to St Clement's Wells but soon finds herself drawn into a romance with Erroll. After dramatic scenes with Lady Thornleigh and Felicitas, Nan is sent home in disgrace yet reconciles with Erroll as he asks for her hand in marriage.
An exposé argues that the Public Service Corporation dominates Newark politics and business by linking banks and utilities through a holding company. It claims executives wield fear and coercion, that local ordinances aim to improve service but are ignored, and that the corporation exists to extract maximum money with minimal effort rather than to further community welfare.
Artist John Sloan tells a Turner tale at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia critiquing a London craze. A dealer recalls meeting a millionaire who boasted of owning many works and rejected a Turner titled The Shark and the Sailor as only half a painting.
A Chicago Tribune note recalls a New Flamingshire journalist visiting a city hotel for honey, then returning with his wife to the same place. The porter jokes that the honey attendant moved to a silk mill, as the couple leave with a dress for the wife and a vow of secrecy. It ends with a remark on long mail delivery from New York to Buenos Aires taking four to five weeks.
Billie Bubble awakes with fatigue and learns of a raindrops ball danced by leaves and raindrops until a rainbow appears. The tale shifts to Maudie Mouse and Mattie Mouse dreams as city mouse cousins reunite, followed by Mattie’s dream journey and a mother’s blessing for a future visit.
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