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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1905
Page
6
The piece recounts a newspaper editor proving advertising boosts trade by free space, then a boastful bookish insult leads the advertiser to demand removal. Next a poetic tribute with prophetic lines about leaving life’s stage, marking a contrast of commerce and mortality with Rosaline E. Jones’s reflections.
Poem reflects on natural cycles and death with autumn imagery and the persistently renewing hope found in nature. It speaks to readers mourning lost love and contemplating mortality through the changing woods and sea.
A multimillionaire in a great city seeks wealth by owning a speckled hen said to yield diamonds. He must marry his daughter to a penniless youth to keep the hen producing riches, but faith and love clash with greed in a fable told by the Chicago Record Herald.
The Carnegie works near Pittsburg experienced a historic payroll of 2 million dollars paid to workers in a single day. Workers received wages at their stations as a pay car toured the site, with Paymaster W. H. Corbett and eight assistants handling the disbursement from the four windows. Police Chief Griff Williams and four armed officers guarded the operation as the car moved along tracks through the hills.
The Cleveland Leader quotes a quip about marriage where a man says his wife married him to spite someone, and the implied guess is the speaker himself. The item presents a humorous aside reflecting social chatter of the era.
A medical expert warns the public about small obsessions that signal later mental illness. Repeats of actions like thrice rising or washing, along with attempts to dress and undress, illustrate borderland insanity that can spread if unchecked. Distinguishes eccentricity from insanity and urges early intervention.
The piece argues that reformers dominate talk but questions whether graft will end. It critiques legislative attempts to change insurance laws and warns against demagogues, urging leaders who cannot be bought or swayed by flattery to stand firm. It echoes a call for principled politicians.
The speaker laments rising at six and prefers sleeping till eight to ten. A discordant noise disturbs rest, provoking anger at the needless interruption. The speaker urges neighbors to take precautions to avoid waking him, ensuring he can wake at his own time. Somerville Journal.
The verse laments children and mothers awaiting soldiers returning from war. It notes tears in babies’ eyes for those who do not come home and contrasts Japanese customs with family reunions. The Houston Post quotation reflects mournful wartime sentiment.
A meditation contrasts the rich who hoard and the poor who give all they have to help others, noting the lasting fame of selfless acts. It cites Charlotte Becker and weaves in dialect verse about cotton field labor, ending with Jeannette I Helm’s autumn mood piece about Michabo and autumn’s fire.
The text argues American progress rests on two moral forces God and man. It urges preserving each child's divine right at birth, voter age 21, and living to support justice, purity, temperance, and faith. It quotes Jerome on nurturing boys to be good not milksops and stresses recognizing a divine portion within humanity.
A compendium of light verse and anecdotes shows courage in retrying efforts and in misadventures with an unskilled driver. Pay Farre's poem contrasts climb, fall, and the courage to try again while Otto’s auto misadventure ends poorly, illustrating humorous misjudgments and domestic quarrels.
Mrs Pinkham promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for womb and ovarian troubles, claiming doctors warned of dangerous surgeries. A patient from Seattle credits the product with curing a womb tumor without operation and urges others to seek her free advice in Lynn Mass.
A compact survey of 1770s timekeeping, early musical instruments, Henry VIII era rents, George Washington land owned by age 27 and hogs killed in 1790, New York called Gotham by Irving and Paulding, a Gotham in England famed for folly, ancient Hebrews using automatic cooking boxes, and a Juvenal edition noting Jews using heated meals before Sabbath with cooking boxes wrapped in hay.
A short Town Topics item discusses color choices and preferences. The exchange questions whether to favor natural color, with blond highlighted as a favored option.
A. H. Spotts, a messenger at the State Capitol in Columbus, recounts twenty years of kidney troubles and failing health. After collapsing and wasting away, he used Dean's Kidney Pills, took twelve boxes, and recovered full health, maintaining 158 pounds for two years. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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