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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1908
Page
6
Essex County Sheriff Frank H. Summer urges boys to abandon a chronic grouch and seek hope through community programs. He contrasts the cynic with the motivated youth who can improve life through effort, schooling, and clubs, insisting help exists if effort remains.
United States Consul at Kobe Hunter Sharp argues Japan keeps ready for war though not seeking conflict. He notes Japan monitors global fleets, aims to sustain first class power, and fears losing status if international pressures mount, while planning emigration enforcement and seeking financial rehabilitation.
Andrew Carnegie argues men fall into three groups: those chasing wealth, those craving fame, and those who seek to serve mankind. He urges doing more than duty, arriving early and staying late to attract attention and achieve real work.
In a wintry mood two elderly companions share a day of small miracles in a grand attic, helping a hospital Mary and a troupe of Lisa’s classmates stage a fairy fountain play. Mary reveals her husband is lost to her, yet the magic fountain births a moment of hopeful love and a quiet spring in the heart.
Countryside Life advises immediate response to canine poisoning with liberal salad oil to counteract toxins until a doctor can be reached. Recommend giving a quart of oil for a large dog, then follow with a strong emetic using a long necked wine bottle as a pourer.
A housekeeper suggests a bubble recipe using pure white soap cut into pieces, dissolved in warm water with a teaspoon of glycerin. Stir well and blow through a small pipe. Strawberry juice yields pink bubbles and orange juice yields yellow bubbles.
Marie Lloyd described at a dinner an actor whose career suffered from drink. She quipped he was a frightful drinker, as hard a drinker as an ancient Yorkshire tavern keeper whose tomb bears the line He has lost his best customer.
Galvanism traces to Miss Galvania who noted frog skin contraction when accidentally touched during an electric spark demonstration by her husband the professor. This prompt sparked further experiments and exploration of the phenomenon.
The New York school system employs about 87,000 teachers, of whom a small fraction are men. Women leave the men with the burden of unequal salaries. Last year education cost the state roughly 55.6 million dollars and teachers earned about 26.5 million.
Fragmentary quip about an old maid and a letter ends with a puzzled blush and retreat to a room, attributed to the philosopher of folly. The wording is garbled and cannot be reliably expanded without clearer context.
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