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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
6
The Home Circle column urges men to value a caring mother and a dutiful wife over sour temper and selfishness. It contrasts stable home life with neglectful behavior, stressing the lasting impact of a mother’s love on a family and the virtue of kindness toward one’s mother.
A reflective message urges readers to seek good people among the living rather than the departed. It emphasizes the happiness and world improvement gained by cultivating the habit of recognizing virtue in current time and daily interactions.
The piece contemplates why there are few true model homes among rural workers. It meditates on how daily contact with nature should inspire noble thoughts and form lives shaped by the beauty of fields forests and mountains, yet acknowledges a gap between surroundings and character.
Seventeenth century Puritan preachers preached long sermons as if by hour glass. One humorously reversed the glass to keep going with drunkenness as a subject. Sir Roger L’Estrange records a parish clerk delaying departure, asking the minister to close the door and slip the key under it.
The grid iron layout of Philadelphia was designed by Thomas Holme as surveyor general, though the overall plan was Penn's. Holme’s descendants still live in the city, but his vast land holdings and city lots have long since left his family's possession.
A woman seeks divorce after her husband buys her only hat in 25 years. The remark questions whether any of the hat remains usable to cover her head.
A period-era remark on social duty as a dominant, urgent aspiration in contemporary conscience. The passage contrasts it with ironies in public discourse and cultural debates. An unrelated medical advertisement touts Dean's ointment for piles, claiming relief and cure with druggists selling it nationwide.
This excerpt from Outing Magazine by Vance Thompson describes the gondola as a nearly living instrument guided by the gondolier with precise calls and fluid maneuvers through Venice’s tight waterways. It extols the city’s unity of sea, boats, and people and notes death as a communal, gentle event in the gondolier quarters.
From dried sturgeon backbone resembling macaroni comes vesiga a nutritious invigorating Russian soup. It rivals beche de mer and trapang sea slug in strength and flavor across the Indian archipelago for the China market. Varieties include Macassar scarlet trapang Borneo kuroke trapang and Leuconia black trapang. Properly prepared it is valued at about 2.50 dollars per pound.
A young man prepares to visit his lover’s widowed mother to seek her blessing. He weighs two cravats, one bought by himself and one the girl gave him, deciding which to wear as he aims to look his best for the marriage proposal. The mother approves, and the girl admires him.
An 1777 London advertisement by a European tour claiming expertise in exorcism offers to clear haunted mansions and castles in England and Wales. Owners may contact Rev. John Jones at 30 St Martin's Lane. rooms said to become habitable in six days.
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