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Newspaper
Springfield Sun
Location
Springfield, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1909
Page
6
Six men at 568 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn swear off women to preserve bachelor life. The international group includes an Englishman Norwegian Swede German Romanian and American. They cook clean and share chores and plan to expand with six more applicants in May.
Polk county Criminal Judge Jesse Miller orders strict jail conditions for all women convicted and sent to the county jail. The ruling promises hard work and limited comforts, signaling tougher treatment than in prior practice. Des Moines notes describe the display as unusually stern for female inmates.
The court decrees that all women committed to the county jail must perform hard labor at the washtub, a move praised by Judge Miller as the toughest and a cost saver for the county. Men will work on the rock pile, with no discrimination between offenders.
Mene Kee shee the sole survivor of a Peary era Eskimo band now studies civil engineering in New York City and plans a polar expedition after graduation. He criticizes modern expeditions for relying on comfortable ships and brief northern forays, insisting the pole must be reached in a single season with a permanent camp.
A 16 year old girl in Peekskill, Grace Powers, hid under the Beecher house stoop for five months. She was found by a boy, taken to Peekskill Hospital, and treated for weakness. Her family and the Dressner household aided her care. authorities suspect fear after a prior arrest for stealing a watch.
Miss Leona Gaylord and Miss J Alexander life long friends both suffer appendicitis and agree to a coin flip to determine who is operated on first. The loser is operated on immediately while the other follows an hour later with quick recovery anticipated. Florence Smith a Patchogue girl swallows about 100 pins over three weeks to avoid study and may live to be a grandmother due to a natural protective mechanism.
Lebano Melillo, a Hudson county murderer, plans to have a Trenton dentist extract several gold teeth and send them to relatives in Italy. The extractions will occur only after the execution, as he fears the dental forceps more than the death chair.
A humorous family vignette traces a boy who longs for adventure and a gun. After persistent pestering, his parents gift him a rifle for Christmas and drill safety, then send him rabbit hunting where a failed early dawn hunt and a noisy alarm clock test the household.
A New ton Kansas Journal remarks that living without stirring anger is as trivial as praising putty or cabbage. The writer jokes a life of courtesy may earn false respect, suggesting such a person would fit a dummy in a window display and noting delicate social judgments.
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