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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
6
A poem portrays a hungry worker who cannot reap and offers water to a traveler. The traveler later leaves a golden wheat sheaf at the poor man's door. The Lord of harvest commends the man for aiding a brother, linking deeds of mercy to spiritual reward.
Major Goddard tails Blanche by cab through Manhattan streets to a bleak Beckman Street tenement. He confronts danger and unravels Blanche’s marriage lies as Father Surtees cautions him. The scene ends with a confession of love and a looming reckoning, in a perilous moral maze.
In Madison Avenue, Major Goddard visits his intimate friend Father Surtees, a liberal priest and Harvard alumnus. The two, once bandmates and Europe travelers, share deep friendship as Surtees writes a book at his desk, while Goddard forces a cautious, practiced smile before sitting down.
A fragment from the Detroit Free Press shows a family scene with a father declaring affection and a tense response. The dialogue includes a shouted remark about a kiss and a silent moment as the father shuts the parlor door.
A Chicago Daily News reflection notes that ambition, while a virtue, often gives rise to vices. The concise saying links drive and restraint, suggesting ambition shapes outcomes in personal conduct and public life.
George Hofer, a German fur dresser living at 1249 North Ashland Avenue, Chicago, runs a tiny 13 by 30 foot shop serving royalty and elite skins from every continent. His career spans Europe and Russia, dressing hides for czars and nobles. he once dressed John Wanamaker’s daughter’s cloak and saved employers from a strike by advancing funds. He traveled widely, earning medals and a reputation for artful tanning, while maintaining bachelor thrift and meticulous cleanliness in a rear building used for premium skins such as sable, sea otter, and chinchilla.
The piece describes a plate from Atkinson's Casket of Gems showing Napoleon Bonaparte, Maria Louise, and the King of Rome in profile. It recounts Napoleon’s belief in omens and a prediction that he would return, traced through violet-colored badges and the motto it will appear again in the spring. Violet ribbons and prints signaled adherents who answered Do you like the violet? with Yes marking loyalists.
A short verse by Antoinette Van Hoesen speaks of personal duty and a divine voice guiding her unique labor. The poem frames work as a sacred vocation, emphasizing individual responsibility and purpose beyond mere effort.
Expert advice from the St Louis Republic notes that a healthy infant cries freely and feeds eagerly, while sickness shows as peevish cries, poor feeding, and restless sleep with flushed face or hot head. Watch mood, skin moisture, lips, palm and foot color, and breathing patterns. seek a physician if abnormalities appear.
When cellars smell musty or foul, close doors and windows and burn sulfur to fill the room with fumes. After an hour open the space, then whitewash walls and ceiling with two coats. Use sulfur on a windy day to circulate air and destroy germs.
A fragment from a Boston scene frames marriage talk through a jokey interrogation about status and readiness. The exchange contrasts a janitor applicant’s marriage claim with social questions, ending with a Yonkers state man’s quip on sudden proposals.
A verse tale from Golden Days by Anna M. Pratt contrasts Tommy a would-be inventor with a cough and bungling chores with Maud Miranda who longs for luxury and a mansion. It argues real success comes from earnest work, not idle dreaming, and warns against sloth.
Six year old Florence Monte Miller of Bloomington Illinois is hailed as a prodigy. She read newspapers and books at age three and wrote stories by age four. She entered Lincoln school at six and quickly advanced, showing mastery in drawing reading writing and arithmetic. The feature also notes elevator etiquette and ship cats aboard ocean liners.
In Seville a lack of kindergartens leaves infants in wicker baskets on streets. The upright basket keeps the baby steady as donkeys and carts maneuver around him, presenting a striking image of urban childcare in the old Spanish town.
Capt Murray of Port Royal, a veteran bar pilot, recalls commanding a clipper wrecked in a Bay of Bengal typhoon near Calcutta. He and two companions survived, subsisting on offerings to an Indian idol until a fight with locals forced their escape. Fifteen years later he met one survivor in Calcutta and later reunited with a former comrade in Charleston.
An old soldier recalls a veteran pack mule that led in training and refused to overburden itself. The animal balked when a coffin weighed lighter than its fearsome load, groaning and feigning collapse before finally letting another mule take the task.
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