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Newspaper
The Perrysburg Journal
Location
Perrysburg, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
6
A reflective New Year meditation urges readers to slow down, reassess character, health, and social duties. It questions selfishness, tolerance, and civic responsibility, urging sound minds, courtesy, temperance, and temperate living to counter materialism and frivolity.
A colorful year end review of a traveling show with the famed elephant Ray-Pub and a double act including Tom-Tom and Bill-Bill. Describes magentic marvels, monkey and dog acts, and a plan to expand for the new season. Notes corporate interest from Yale and Harvard in acquiring performers.
A long, rambling tale traces a lively Ohio-raised con artist known as a social favorite who used charm and song to fleece bartenders and neighbors. He drifted through towns earning trust, then exploiting lenders with a painter’s disguise and fake gold spectacles graft, ending in a Chicago charity hospital death.
A historical poem by Roy Farrell Greene recalls a Virginia New Year gathering with abolitionist bonds, grandmothers dancing the minuet, and a nation at a crossroads. The verses celebrate kinship, civic memory, and a hopeful but fading past as a new year begins.
A festive note describes a handwoven tamp shade as a Christmas gift idea for a loved one. The description emphasizes warm craftsmanship and seasonal appeal suitable for gifting during the holidays.
During a Pacific coast tour Prof. C B Johnson of the University of Washington is described as a leading college light. He tells Harvard President Biot he holds the biology chair but would teach meteorology botany physiology chemistry entomology and others, prompting the remark that he occupies a whole chair.
A fragment recounts Mia complaining about a recent flour delivery to a grocer. The housekeeper describes the flour as tough and cites her husband’s reaction, though the text is garbled and incomplete. The scene suggests household strain over food quality reported to a local Ledger.
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