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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1906
Page
3
The writer distrusts phonetic spelling, arguing it promotes carelessness and harms education. They doubt Roosevelt's push will make it viable and warn of socialistic equality claims, urging instead a new standard spelling rather than a broad, disruptive shift.
Article argues polar exploration builds national character and wealth. It cites Nansen's ice resistant boat, Wellman's dirigible tests, and Todd's wealth study. It notes geographic and scientific gains as explorers map continents, seas, and mineral riches, with Alaska gold as example of returns.
The article argues for public disclosure of campaign donors citing large sums raised nationally and in several states. It cites insurance companies as examples and notes that many contributors would not permit publication, asserting publicity is as essential as identifying former private corporations.
A compact era fragment presents poems by Parker Hood and Wordsworth. It includes Benjamin S. Parker’s reflective poem The Reader Ruth and Thomas Hood’s The World Is Too Much With Us, with Wordsworth’s sonnet about nature and renewal.
A lyrical excerpt presents a sea driven surge of love and a hidden mountain god in Florence Wilkinson's McClure's verse. It contrasts oceanic vastness with intimate devotion, linking tides and inner revelation to a mounting, flooded gaze.
A compact poem contrasts two hands a snow white and delicate one with a horned inner palm mark and a busier striving hand. The speaker notes innocence and strength, gentle color and unspoiled energies, while reflecting on appearances and effort.
A reflective poem on loss and aging contrasting youthful joys with vanished past and failed love. The speaker mourns photons of memory, noting the inability to weep and the fading faith, with samples of lines attributed to Lorana W. Sheldon and Ralph Waldo Emerson, in a newspaper-like fragment.
Policeman Flynn finally secures a conviction after two prior releases when he proves the gang’s guilt with dramatic end runs and carrying the loot to the judge. He tracks two youths and later catches them with a mantel clock and brass items, insisting the goods be shown in court.
Narrow Valenciennes lace frills adorn the stylish shirtwaist shown. Front and back tucks, center box pleat closure, tucked sleeves, high neckband. White Persian lawn shown, plus season’s fabrics like linen and batiste. Medium size needs 254 yards of 36 inch material. Sizes 32 to 42 inches. Send 10 cents with size and pattern number.
Pattern 5612 shows a dress for girls with a broad yoke, box pleats at the waist, bishop sleeves, and a tucked bloused front. The sample uses pink and white wash silk with lace yoke and cuffs, but albatross challis cashmere serge and brilliantine are also suitable. Medium size uses four yards of 36 inch material for ages 6 to 12.
A brief exchange notes that proposing in moonlight is not the usual way and that the speaker prefers proposing in the dark, as reported by the Detroit Free Press.
A French investigator injected powdered yolk from a duck egg treated with 20 percent salt into animals to death. Rabbits required 55 grains per pound, with duck yolk most toxic, hen yolk less so, turtle yolk more. Albumen also poisonous.
A humorous caption from the Hofaston Post notes a fashionable exchange where a speaker realizes their gown is not the only thing that is becoming. The quip pivots to the idea of bankruptcy as a pun on becoming.
A fragment from the Detroit Free Press recalls a moment when Charlie proposed, causing Coral to laugh despite his nerves as he trembled with chattering teeth, highlighting a tense family scene.
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