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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1904
Page
6
A Sunday scene describes a hill top lone tree and a quiet dawn. Children walk to Sunday school with demure, sweet faces as the day unfolds in a modest hymn like memory. The poem notes past laughter and present calm, ending with a blessing for all the youngsters.
Major Ike Gleason narrates how Sally Tigg leads the Tutti Frutti Ladies in a sham charity that cycles through tickets, raffles, and freebies to drain funds. Merchants refuse contributions while a ball ends withscene chaos and a police escort. Perkins is battered after the event while Sally vanishes.
Vienna reports a dramatic elopement involving Princess Louise of Coburg, daughter of King Leopold of Belgium, and Lieut. Geza Mattasich-Keglevica. They fled from a hotel in Elster Saxony with ladders and an automobile, leaving jewels and a fortune behind.
S F Cole aged 18 from Catskill New York set a world record for the most words written in seven hours with 28944 words averaging 67 11 12 words per minute. He surpassed Mattie F Pretty’s prior US Senate record and trained in a law office using a two finger method.
A German inventor creates a rubber swimming glove that spreads fingers during the stroke. The added webbing between fingers is said to generate two extra powerful strokes, improving propulsion.
A collage of verses from The Washington Star and other papers lampoons marital power dynamics with a humorous tone. It contrasts a domineering wife with a meek husband then shifts to light verse about dogs, nature, and Bob White, ending with a poke at scientific jargon for common ailments.
A Washington Star verse note muses that twilight hues and roses fade yet future summer nights will offer new color and sweeter blooms. The speaker asks what care for vanished light and past joys, urging acceptance that old pleasures should not become present woes.
Poem fragment tracing a narrator who declines wealth and fame yet embraces art. In time Love remains the final, gentle captor, yielding happiness as years pass. This verse by Joel Benton appears in Woman’s Home Companion.
S. E. Kiser notes in the Chicago Record-Herald a man travels the world in search of happiness. He distrusts Fortune and deems happiness elusive until he finally traces her footprints in the dust near home, concluding the quest ends where he began.
A playful verse by Edmund Vance Cooke recounts a narrator guiding five and ten pink pigs back into a sock and shoe pen. The owner grants gentle warnings as pigs are hurried into the morning routine with giggles and movement around a gown and pen.
A Chicago Inter Ocean recreate explains lifting water with a card sealed to a glass, then using a knot and string to lift a pendulum. It notes air pressure supports the card and water, and describes precautions such as sealing wax and grease.
In a Thanksgiving week tale a Maltese cat named Lady Gray targets two fat rabbits hung in a shed. A misstep leads to a fall into a water pail and a humbling display. Myrtle whitewashes the fur and after the incident the cat shuns the shed and rabbits. Pearl Howard Campbell Chicago Record-Herald reports.
Thin paper kettles are used by Japanese soldiers for boiling water. They fill with water, hang over a fire, and within ten minutes the water boils. The kettle can be reused eight or ten times and costs about two cents.
The baya or weaver-bird of India attaches fireflies to its nest with moist clay. On dark nights the nest glows with a brightness comparable to a small electric lamp.
A mother and child share a prayer scene as the boy Harry asks God to bless the lambs and the old sheep, noting that his parents should not be forgotten. The family expresses affection and moral concern through a simple, domestic moment.
Over 40 000 cattle in Russia wear smoke colored glass spectacles to prevent snow blindness. The glasses cover the eyes as cattle forage through snow covered plains, reducing glare from the sun on the snow.
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