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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
7
A mixed poem fragment from the Boston Transcript and Pall Mall Gazette describes Polly on a swing with joy and a wooer’s heartbreak, followed by a light garden verse about a gardener and a thief. The pieces capture playful whimsy and rustic charm from two publications.
A poet laments leaving New England landscapes and memories. The speaker seeks solace in familiar sights of hills, violets, arbutus, wind-flowers, and pine, yet finds sorrow and a vast future while clinging to childhood spells and treasured times. Edith C. Banfield notes in Century.
A collage of poetic verses and quips from multiple papers notes a moonlit pool vision of a magic mirror foretelling rapine and ghosts, a summer haying mood, and home as loved ones. It cites Minna Irving and verses by J. M. Lewis and S. E. Kiser with Ada adaptations and the Washington Star float.
Abbas II Hilmi is described as khedive of Egypt visiting London incognito from Paris. He met King Edward with no official entertainments, previously visited Windsor in 1900. Born July 14 1874, Abbas is an able administrator and polyglot, educated in English-speaking schools, raised in Europe, and now lives like an English country gentleman at Koubbeh. He is devoted to wife and children, a monogamist, and a keen sportsman who values cricket and football and promotes camel-breeding for Egypt’s economy.
Austin Taylor describes a large hand built derrick used on the Pacific Coast to stack alfalfa. The device uses a 45 to 50 foot main mast and a 27 to 30 foot boom with pulleys and wire lines to move hay toward or away from the stack, adjustable by sliding fittings and a crow foot top for guy ropes.
W A Miller, assistant foreman in the government printing office, was suspended after union expulsion but reinstated by President Roosevelt. No direct charges were made beyond Miller's former status as a union member. Union officials refuse to disclose charges publicly.
The note urges keep weeds down and fences up, cultivate crops for winter, and avoid wasted labor. It suggests using horse tools, disinfect barns with carbolic acid or lime, and prevent doors from slamming. Small fixes like two staples and a hook keep doors open or closed as needed.
A science note explains that plant roots draw minerals from soil by releasing acids that dissolve minerals on a marble surface. Two marble pieces with soil show one plant absorbing nutrients, while the other remains polished, demonstrating how roots extract food from minerals.
In London Tit-Bits a scene follows two men the morning after a night of revelry. One man confesses feeling blue while recalling how his wife’s absence left him without accountability and he punishes himself with nervous acts and self rebuke. The other remarks on his earlier behavior and the failed restraint.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer report notes that tenement district leadership carries communal duties beyond politics. A district leader acts as guardian and de facto mayor, facing constant requests from voters. One mother sought adoption for her baby during a trip, others called at odd hours for arbitration and aid, with a voter publically quiting after not knowing a leader’s family. Tim Sullivan cited as a benchmark of attentiveness.
A stock exchange uncle refuses ongoing support for his nephew who keeps failing in business. He demands the nephew pay off debts and go it alone. Two months later the nephew returns with all debts repaid and borrows the necessary funds to start anew, earning praise as a potential great financier.
A street scene dialogue shows Kloreman seeking free medical advice for hay fever symptoms while Dr. Sharpe contemplates his own sneezing response. The exchange travels through quoted lines from newspapers, with a jab at cleverness and legal drafting.
Commodities and livestock prices across markets show firm opening in flour with mixed activity. Wheat corn oats and seeds listed with varying bid quotes. cattle hogs sheep and lamb values noted in Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo East Liberty and other hubs.
A South Africa battle case ends with a soldier who was listed as killed turning up alive. A sergeant notes the correction in the regimental books, then the man dies from injuries soon after. The colonel orders another note declaring the death as re-died by order of the colonel.
In Frairpoint Mississippi Aug 3 a case with severe kidney illness in a boy labeled an aecord trouble ended after eight boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. The father Mr G L Butler credits the remedy with curing the boy and urges others to try it.
An old-fashioned maritime scene unfolds on a steamer deck with a smiling couple at the bow. The girl whispers of the night and the view as the sea appears calm ahead, while the judge quips that love is awake behind them.
Foot ease powder promises relief for tired feet with trial packages offered in Le Roy New York. A quoted exchange from a Baltimore News clipping and a Chicago to Coast train line mention appear alongside a famous quote about fear from Seneca.
An old classified style notice promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claiming one day cure for colds with money back guarantee. The fragment includes advertising lines and quotes from various sources and locations dated around 1900.
Mrs May IlAvute of Edgerton Wisconsin credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her female troubles after a weekly improvement within a week and two months of use she gained weight and felt like a new woman the letter claims authenticity with a $5000 forfeit note.
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