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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1906
Page
2
In a reflective critique, the author argues dullness arises from clinging to conventional ideas and a self-satisfied mindset. True simplicity comes from testing motives, shedding unnecessary claims, and relying on trained instinct rather than tradition. Dullness can coexist with high intellect but blocks lively dialogue and openness to new ideas.
San Francisco suffered a major quake and resulting fires causing widespread ruin. Authorities estimate losses exceed 300 million dollars with about 1 000 dead and thousands homeless as relief efforts mobilize across Oakland and other Bay Area areas. San Jose and other towns report heavy damage and casualties while federal and local agencies coordinate aid and reconstruction plans.
A reflection on when adulthood yields wisdom. The piece cites O S Marden and Success Magazine noting that the first forty years train and lay foundations. It contrasts Dr Osler and Lincoln, Grant as examples, and asserts individuals reach their own deadline at varying ages while growth continues.
A Washington agriculture department special report highlights that the United Kingdom is a major customer for U S food exports and that about half of its meat supply comes from America. It notes the lingering influence of American cattlemen on English beef markets.
In the senate gallery two New England teachers hear a guide praise Senator Lodge as a teetotaler who does not drink. The guide notes he even thins his water, remarking on public figures and societal dinners. The incident occurs at WM Washington.
Miss Lucy V. McGivney of Brooklyn reports severe headaches and side and back pains that kept her from work. After using Peruna she says she is active again with no headaches and calls the remedy marvelous. The ad notes many grateful testimonies but space allows only one.
In Alabama a tract of the finest land in southern Alabama to be sold in 49 to 160 acre tracts with cash or easy payments in Washington County. The land features rich sandy loam soil and a clay subsoil, grows peaches pears grapes figs and other fruits and vegetables, offers low living costs and good shipping by water and rail, and will include a new town FIGDALE with a hotel church schoolhouse and store. The Tombigbee Valley Land Co invites agents and offers a May 1 Chicago excursion with low round trip rates and no purchaser expense.
In Wheeling West Virginia the Fifteenth Ohio sub-district miners rejected the Lorain Coal and Dock Co compromise proposal despite warnings from leaders. The strike will be continued as a result.
Pekin dispatches 50 000 dollars to the American legation for relief and an additional 20 000 dollars to Chinese residents of San Francisco. The empress dowager acts as donor in response to the disaster in the city.
Astoria dispatch says the steamer Alliance and Eureka reports the Point Arena lighthouse wrecked by an earthquake. The ship, shaken off Eureka, sounded and found 12 fathoms of water indicating she had not struck bottom.
E G Stoiber a Colorado millionaire mine man died in Paris Saturday after residing in Denver Colorado.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Co reports nineteen miners killed in the Quarto mine blast on Sunday. Three men removed from the mine unconscious, initially thought dead, are expected to recover.
The death of George Fletcher, aged 118, was announced from County Tyrone, Ireland, marking him as the oldest British subject known. He died in London, England, with reports noting his remarkable longevity.
Albany N Y Both houses passed a bill appropriating two hundred fifty thousand dollars for relief of San Francisco and the state of California following Gov Higgins recommendation in a special message.
William Wing, a seaman wounded on the Kearsarge, died Monday, bringing the death toll from the shipboard fire to ten. The casualties include eight enlisted men and two officers.
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