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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
3
The piece argues railways remain a superior capital asset and ground-based travel is safer, cheaper, and more reliable than airship transport. It warns that air travel, though clever, offers limited practical advantages and may not replace earth and sea routes.
The government crop reports benefit farmers directly and indirectly by informing them about crop conditions and prospects. Private reports and speculators can distort prices, but government reports provide a disinterested, wide publicity that helps farmers assess overall conditions and guard against misleading information.
The article argues that submitting new plays to matinee audiences avoids prejudiced first night verdicts and aligns success with ultimate public opinion. It cites Oscar Wilde on audience versus creator perspectives, praises abandoning routine in theater, and notes managers’ conservative views on current theatrical ideas.
A poem excerpt from the Atlanta Constitution notes a man who never complains about weather. He praises heat for hay and cold for ice, urging gratitude in all seasons and thanking the good Lord for sun and rain.
In a Chicago hotel smoking room Capt H E Honeywell recalls a Charleston balloon voyage ending with a grapnel catching a man from a hut. As laments tell of a ghostly winged shape the grapnel hoists the man aloft, and he cries I’s not de corpse while Dick is in the house.
A reflective poem questions if John o'Dreams has found his path in life. It conjures a bygone world of Arcady, summer seas, and a shared May road between a boy and girl Theodosia Garrison, hinting at dreamlike origins and lost innocence.
Pattern details for two dress sleeve styles Paris Pattern No 2662 All Seams Allowed Shows plain sleeved design with lace edging oversleeve option and a tuck sleeve in mousseline Includes sizes 32 to 44 bust and yardage for materials Send 10 cents to Pattern Department with name address size and pattern number
A reflective poem contrasts dying leaves with urban life. The speaker notes leaves swirl from branches to gutters as autumn fades, and wonders if their green touch to London hints at grace amid human pettiness. Shadows over city streets offer hope before the final fall.
A letter from Japan printed in a German paper explains why shogi's popularity signals Japanese strategic aptitude. It notes the 20 pieces, arrow directions, pieces changing sides when captured, and value increases when crossing into enemy territory. The writer says the game's rudiments are easy to learn, yet it offers rich strategic possibilities.
Poem in which the speaker laments the impossibility of parting and hints at shared past life with a beloved spirit. The speaker reflects on altered heaven and earth after a single touch or tone and concludes it is too late to say farewell.
A moonlit autumn scene unfolds over gray rooftops and somber city streets. The speaker contrasts harvest fields and wheatfields with night hush and cool wind while recalling the country calling in the heart.
Fragmented verse reflects love and death with lines about sweet love, bitter death, and yearning to follow love or death. The second portion admires dawn winds, sunlight, memory, and the beloved you, capturing nostalgia and vivid natural imagery.
Ohio Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee men are invited to Florida to view North Florida Fruit and Truck Farms at Hilliard. The Cornwall Farm Land Co offers 1 acre at 210 dollars with 10 dollars monthly and rail fare credit on purchase. Lands lie 40 minutes from Jacksonville along the Atlantic Coast Line.
A four year old in Washington admires a donkey calling it dear and lovely. After exhausting adjectives she confirms she likes the donkey very much but does not like to hear him donk.
A diner and waiter volley a French phrase misunderstanding over the dish named eminence of turkey. The customer shows the exact bill of fare where the item appears and the waiter finally grasps the intended order.
The tides create a tiny braking effect on the rotating Earth lengthening the day by about one second every 460000 years. The estimate uses engineer formulas and assumptions to compute the long term impact.
Financial notes show call money at 2 percent and mercantile paper at 4.4 percent. Sterling at 4.8570 on demand. Grain and livestock prices vary by city with no trading on some cattle and mixed results for hogs and lambs. Regional figures include Minnesota and Cleveland prices for flour wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs potatoes hay cattle sheep and hogs with several price ranges listed. Chicago closes with December wheat at 1.02 or percent.
Pattern details describe a six size ladies skirt with left side front closure and box-plait flare. Back in habit style plain gore with no center seam suits slim figures. yardage listed for nap and non nap fabrics across widths 20 to 54 inches. Pattern Department, town.
In Saxony rural districts children were granted a free school day last summer to collect a destructive moth species. They earned a couple of cents for every 100 moths caught as part of a program to protect trees.
Berks County farmers wives salt sweet corn to keep it fresh through winter. They pack corn into stone cracks or cedar tubs and use salt to preserve the ears.
A playful exchange from the Utica Herald features Tom and Dick bantering about cake and being solid after tasting it. Tom jokes he feels as solid as concrete or building stone, while Dick asks if he succeeded.
A short reflection extols true politeness as the finest guide for life. It argues politeness builds a good reputation and fills social needs, presenting etiquette as a universal virtue to cultivate.
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