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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1907
Page
18
A promotional blurb invites readers to buy a monthly Sunset magazine with illustrated Western tales and scenic color views. It advertises a $1.50 subscription and a free book titled Road of a Thousand Wonders, featuring 120 Western views, sent from Flood Building, San Francisco, California.
A Chicago paper promotes a special clubbing deal including the Vindicator and Republican with Cosmopolitan Magazine and World Today, offering combinations at significantly reduced rates. It highlights prices for various pairings, nationwide distribution, and a travel fare promotion by the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad for homeseekers with two monthly sale days.
In November winter grips Paris with heat in schools and public buildings while street shows retreat to winter quarters. Across Montrouge gate empty lots host caravans forming makeshift streets. Inside one van beds fill a two-room space with closets and a stove, as voyagers endure harsh living conditions noted by Vance Thompson.
A Century observation by Lella Mechiln argues art criticism lacks fixed standards yet common sense recognizes beauty across cultures. It notes Greek temples Babylonian pottery and Whistler's nocturnes share core values of rhythmical line proportion and harmony, ending disputes when on the height of true beauty.
The tale recounts Dryden seeking payment for a Virgil translation from Jacob Tonson. Tonson refused the asked sum, prompting Dryden to compose biting lines about the publisher. When delivered, Tonson paid instantly, admitting the poet could indeed write more.
Manghapir near Ka Prachi is a Hindu pilgrim site famed for hot springs that reportedly cure leporsy. Visitors bathe in waters where over sixty percent of annual sufferers are said to improve while crocodiles inhabit the same hot pools without discomfort.
A fragment notes equipping a plant to produce glass cement tile and mentions timing around late May to early June, with orders expected to be filled in rotation. The text references Unaene Propucrs Co mm and a unclear name or signature.
The Towa Central Railroad announces one way fare sales to Nebraska, Eastern Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas during March and April. Rates are half fare plus 2.00 for settlers and landseekers. For full particulars contact B Cutts at G. B. A. Minneapolis Minnesota.
The article cites repeated claims that hair turns white under terror and danger. It mentions Queen Marie Antoinette's auburn hair allegedly turning white during the reign of terror, an English surgeon Parry's report of a Sepoy's jet black hair whitening half an hour after examination, and Baron Alphonse de Rothschild's dark hair blanching during the Paris Commune.
The superintendent quotes the firm head insisting on employing his son in the department. He adds that keeping him busy would only create work for others correcting the son’s mistakes, a wry jab at nepotism and incompetence.
A prosperous farmer recalls years of drinking leading to poverty, noting that even moderate drinking would cost him an acre of land annually. He decided to quit to protect his wealth, as quoted by the Central Christian Advocate.
A dialogue contrasts a strong man and his daughter discussing Julius Caesar. The daughter notes a claim she read that Caesar threw a bridge over the Rhine, prompting the father’s puzzled question about the source of the assertion.
Baltimore American reflects on how living by love and faith could ease life’s briery fields and rocky roads if testimonials uttered on tombstones guided daily actions. The piece muses on moral conduct, memory, and virtue shaping everyday choices.
A Witteburg Gazette Times note reflects a quirky adage about waking to a burglar as a sign that unexpected company has arrived.
Visitors to tropical regions notice the strangling fig a epiphytic tree that starts on another plant. Roots wind down to the ground forming a tubelike mass. on palms it blocks branches, on woody hosts it starves by blocking sap flow. The strangler’s roots appear like thick slow flowing material running down the host tree.
In a New Orleans Times-Democrat reflection an antiquary recalls Oliver Cromwell’s era when Christmas was outlawed. He notes strict Puritan rules forbidding decking halls with holly or mistletoe and banishing dancing feasting and games, with a thirty day penalty, until public opposition forced a partial reversal after a year or two.
In a Dickens era letter, William Collins hints that his novel finished yet with a rough title. While resting at Broadstairs he gazes at the light house and whispers to it, You are as stiff as my white woman. Eureka He has got it. The book gains its title from this moment of inspiration.
The Paris Blecle notes the French middle class sacrifices all for junior official posts, ending in thirty years of penury. It laments two races unequal in life struggle, with Latin aspirants versus Anglo-Saxon initiative, energy and growth.
A London Saturday Review excerpt describes aborigines using bow and arrow to fish in south seas and Indian Ocean islands. Archers must account for water refraction to aim. The piece praises long practice creating expert handling of the underwater targets.
Dialogue snippet shows Lady Gushington remarking on her son as a real author and practical dad noting his son submits applications about once a week for money. The exchange highlights a witty curiosity about his professional writing and compensation.
A fragmented note from a local page hints at a couple's courtship with a playful exchange about a proposal on a notable perch. The brief item references Houston Foat and a teasing reply related to engagement.
Captain Weber used waterlogged suspect clothes and a crowd of newsboys to trap the boy thief. He gathered witnesses at the fire station and quickly secured a confession from Nifty Smith for the store robbery.
A New York World quote notes that thousands poison themselves with food by overeating or eating poorly. The physician argues most people misadjust meal size and frequency, overloading digestion and harming nutrient absorption.
Robist Ghost, John Leech and a Millais family member stayed at Cowdray in England where guests fled to an isolated wing believed haunted. Millais awoke to a giant shaking his shoulder, Leech trembled in the corridor, and they spent the night apart. By afternoon an earthquake story arrived, blamed by the visitors on the ghost.
A northern Long Island coastal row of islands includes Plum Island and Goose Island with a mineral wealth of colored quartz pebbles called agates. Local demand in New York supports operations by owners of one or two sloops who harvest the stones from beaches polished by the sea.
The modern sense of Hl Dorado is linked to a claim by Py garro's man of discovering a land of wealth between the Orinoco and the Amazon. The country inspired adventurers including Sir Walter Raleigh, and the name has come to signify a golden land of mind and wealth, akin to Cockalyne.
A seedy philosopher proclaims his ideal happiness is simply to enter a fine restaurant, cover the menu prices with his hand, and order what he desires regardless of a dwindling wallet during another round trip to the free lunch counter.
Bertie-Father asks what an egotist is in a short dialogue. Father says a man who thinks he is smarter than anyone else. Mother counters that all men think they are, implying the egotist is the universal self‑opinion.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a young widow seeking a dog from an animal seller. The seller offers color options white gray black. The exchange shifts to mirthful and cryptic lines about mourning and life, with odd rhymes and archery hints. No clear event, date, or location is established.
A historical account describes a method to trap orangutans by targeting favored trees. Hunters drive the apes to branches, disorient them with noise, and have workers felled trees within fifty feet to create a barrier. Netting then ensues, entangling the primates as they attempt escape.
The article explains that removing 45 from 45 can yield a remainder of 45, presenting the idea as a paradoxical arithmetic example rather than a trick or impossibility. It invites readers to consider the plain figures and see how the result is possible in a certain framing.
A reader is given sequences of digits and asks to verify that lines sum to 45 and that a subset of figures can total 21. The example uses digits arranged 9 through 1 and repeats with left to right order, noting a remainder of 45. Another puzzle uses six of fifteen digits to total 21, such as 7 7 5 1 to reach 20 plus a fraction to reach 21.
In Augustus era Rome papyrus editions cropped up as slaves copied originals. Horace and Martial note piracy and underpriced editions that reach common readers. Martial cites a Thirteenth book offered for 4 nummi, with profit if sold at 2. Deluxe editions priced around 3 denarii in Atrecta, about a troy.
A temperance reformer boasts of converting the town's biggest drinker in Little Scotch town. The ex-sot testifies on a platform with the town clerk nearby, saying he never touched alcohol for a month and has saved to buy a brass-handled oak coffin, planning another month of teetotaling.
As fruit season opens, parrots and parrakeets descend by the thousands in Australia, feeding on cherries, peaches and plums. The birds leave only pits and skins, yet their flesh is described as succulent and superior to pigeons in taste.
Miss Cayenne quips that few authors become rich and that wealth would tempt a writer to fund a private library, restricting readers to his own works, a view echoed by Washington Gar.
Breey responded that very readers have read the writings and poetry, noting broad public attention. The exchange highlights the work’s reach across the nation and the poet’s reply to readers.
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