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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1909
Page
8
Time schedule for West and East bound trains on October 10 1909 lists numbers 200 211 213 27 221 westbound and 210 212 214 218 222 eastbound with arrival and departure times and notes on routes to Dalton Orrville and daily operation.
Local items note Scott's fountain pens and a broad holiday line at Gibson's and Chaffin Slusser's. Dalton merchants stock up for Christmas with dry goods, candy and bric a brac while sidewalks fill with vehicles for Main Street’s reopening.
County commissioners approved a resolution to compensate Land Appraisers at 3.50 dollars per day during next year. The rate matches several counties while others pay higher wages to the same role.
Citizens warned about counterfeit silver dollars circulating in nearby towns. The notes claim the fakes are light and unusually smooth, stamped with the mint date 1802. References to historical corsets and portraits appear in the surrounding text.
In Ascot a postman's wife went outside with a child to aid another who had hurt itself. She returned to find her younger daughter, not yet a year old, had fallen head first into a pail of water and died. The report comes from English newspapers noting the unusual accident.
The exchange notes there is no such thing as a tonic. Foods provide energy while stimulants borrow energy from tomorrow. When tomorrow arrives the reserve is exhausted, leading to collapse.
Very low excursion rates announced by Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad for holidays. Chicago Detroit Cincinnati Buffalo Cleveland Pittsburg St Louis Wheeling routes included. Tickets on sale December 24 26 and January, good for return to January 3. See Agents 133 for details.
Weather improved wheat growth to 93 percent, up 10 from prior report, with Hessian fly and grub worm damage minimal. Corn area estimated at 3,050,825 acres yielding 121,127,532 bushels at 39 bushels per acre, up 17,497,736 vs 1908. Apple yield about 43 percent of average. silo uptake 4 percent. cribbing around Oct 18. Tobacco and cattle feeding for spring markets at 69 percent.
Posidippus offers a concise meditation on sorrow as a manifold evil. The fragment names sorrow as a pervasive force. The ancient poet links its many feet to a breadth of human affliction across life.
A minister scolds a naughty urchin named Tommy who objects that the minister’s son is spared, arguing that the boy is not bad yet because he receives many slippers, implying fear of punishment.
A young man’s garter slips as he descends subway steps. He calmly adjusts his trousers while the woman notes the moment and moves on. The scene unfolds with no attention from bystanders in this brief domestic vignette.
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