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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1909
Page
3
New York police recruits will be selected for boxing and grappling ability. Arthur Woods pushes a plan adding ring experience and jiu jitsu to training with teachers drawn from proven pugilists. Regular boxing classes and a jiu jitsu instructor will head the program.
A physician argues honesty is crucial in medical care, detailing how concealment harms patients and undermines trust. The piece cites cases of family deception, advocates truth-telling when prognosis is clear, and suggests practical dietary guidance for incipient tuberculosis, emphasizing lean meat, certain vegetables, and avoiding fried foods.
The author laments widespread deceit in medicine and business, comparing placebo use to a deliberate mislead. He argues truth collapses under repeated lies by governments, war offices, and professionals, urging honesty and the dangers of a divided society.
Dr J C Bayles argues that prevention and self care are key in tuberculosis. A practical diet favors affordable foods, avoids luxuries, praises vegetables and fruit, favors rice, legumes, and plain bread, and rejects alcohol and patent medicines. Emphasizes water, moderate tea or coffee, and avoids excess provocation.
Washington special Assisting Secretary of the Treasury Coolidge approved a plan to standardize United States note and certificate designs. Nine uniform portraits will replace nineteen designs, with each denomination sharing a single portrait and color distinctions to curb counterfeiting and aid public recognition.
An extolling verse celebrates spring forest life with trees and shrubs in bloom. The piece depicts birch and chestnut silhouettes, green silver light, and a festival of May within nature. Overall imagery centers on renewal and the vitality of trees and flora through seasonally vivid, lyrical lines.
A London based physician praises horse flesh as a medical aid for the sick, noting French doctors’ endorsement and its potential value for diet and strength. He cites examples from marine and military contexts, discusses preparation and diet, and includes poetry excerpts and notable quotes.
Washington dispatch describes a Missouri representative taking control of a balky mule used to pull a cart in front of the Capitol. A bystander offered a humorous method, but the decisive approach came from Rep. Rusker, who directed the team and the mule calmed, allowing the line to be reattached and the animal moved inside.
Beecher frames the American flag as a symbol of liberty and national unity. He links its stars and stripes to the nation’s history from Revolution to victory, urging unwavering allegiance and honoring fallen heroes as the flag travels from coast to coast and sea to sea.
A short verse notes upheaval as women seize roles in pulpit platform and politics. Men are urged aside as wives widows and maids clamour for influence. women write plead vote field paint fight legislate while men appear with nothing left to do. Patterned in early 20th century tone.
Jackson muses on a missing imperial order pin at breakfast while reading the Rochester paper. A family debate follows over who took the pin as a dinner scene unfolds and fog from the north Atlantic looms offshore.
Seven year old Mary Vallone of Ardsiey left home to meet her mother and wandered four miles toward Witt Watertown where she got lost in a wood. Night fell and police and coroner King concluded terror caused her death as she lay near the road with a parasol nearby. Constable Joseph Gibbons found her at daylight.
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