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Newspaper
The Joliet Weekly News
Location
Joliet, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
10
The article recalls a hard fought subscription drive with huge data entry workload and vast orders. It thanks old and new subscribers, notes prizes and a Fifty Thousand Club, and praises Contest Manager J. D. Wolfort for his leadership. It lists city and country contestants, prize events, and notable milestones through September.
The speaker describes arranging the car nage makers order to ensure smooth transfer of ownership after a mission of joy bringing delight to forty or fifty young hearts in recent weeks. The final toast is offered to contestants boys and a young woman inviting them to share a closing moment before departure.
Chronicle of a long voting contest opened Aug 27 and closed Oct 10 with up to 69 entrants in country district and 40 in city district. Audrey Pomeroy, Helen Carson, Ruth Fraser and others led, prizes included gold watches and ponies, with special races and theater events for contest members.
Three Energetic News contestants were hindered by illness with Miss Esther Picton Plainfield and Miss Edna Staenle Lockport sick in bed. Miss Anna Ballin Newark relinquished her work to help a friend in need, prompting the News to extend sympathy.
The Exchange notes a legend where Junius Brutus and the Tarquins consult Delphi about Rome’s throne. Brutus supposedly hears the earth’s answer “He who shall first kill his mother.” He laments and kisses the earth, an early recorded instance of the term Mother Earth.
The News expresses thanks to contestants and readers for their support in the voting contest. It notes the near thousand vote total and the energy, perseverance, and expenditure of effort by those who remained until the end. The paper pledges to keep delivering engaging content to convert new friends into permanent readers.
A fragmentary historical account describes belief in fish based cures and superstitions. Eels are said to hold hair growth and rheumatism preventive powers while red herring figures as a remedy in salt water lore. The text notes past medical views from Hippocrates to 18th century naval studies and references Newcat’s Day and a possible royal superstition around a kingly herring.
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