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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1914
Page
2
Hogan a six month patrolman faces ostracism after backing Pat Grady but rescues a woman, fights a drug crazed arsonist, and saves fellow officer James in a blazing tenement. He returns to greet bystanders, bears his scars, and learns his fate rests with the station.
A Kansas City Star column argues that real competition is self competition. An apartment manager’s insight suggests personal progress comes from measuring against yesterday, not rivals, keeping ambition high and avoiding contentment.
A Robert Louis Stevenson line laments toilers marching toward unknown goals. It favors the journey over arrival, praising hopeful labor as true success rather than conquest or completion.
In Bourne Lincolnshire an old custom was witnessed as two boys ran a race during the letting of the Whitebread meadow. The winner’s return awarded the tenant for the year and after expenses the rent money funds bread for distribution to local households.
A quotation attributed to Newell Dwight Hillis notes that a cheerful disposition can amplify strength. The saying emphasizes positivity as a force multiplier.
Explorer George Kennan reports Korea built steel-clad ships centuries before European rivals and used movable type and astronomy from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. He argues invasion by Mongols and Manchus damaged Korea while Japan rose, with modernization under Japanese rule cited as progress and later benefits of annexation.
The royal commission on Indian finance and currency notes ongoing debates on gold flows to India. Experts dispute the amount hoarded with estimates ranging up to 300 million pounds, much stored in jewelry and bullion. Hoarding may occur through currency in roofs and ornaments rather than buried caches.
Dr Bertillon promotes psychotherapie or co culture as medicine arguing it aids sleep without forcing trance. He uses a bed based environment and a ticking metronome to calm patients and implants prohibitions such as not drinking absinthe. He notes hypnotism helps those with unhappy love affairs find release from unrequited passion.
Excerpt extols bigness as a national virtue across states and industries. It credits large-scale men and enterprises with driving a strong economy and big wages, urging support for expansive factories and pay, and praising large brains in banks, offices, and workshops.
Walter Mahony of Camp McCoy Sparta Wisconsin describes a nearly two year battle with psoriasis on his arms and legs. After trying remedies with only temporary relief he used Cuticura Soap and Ointment following a newspaper ad and was completely cured in three months. The promotion notes Cuticura is sold worldwide and offers a free Skin Book.
The article notes a dispute between Monmouthshire miners and employers over a comma in a British act of parliament. It recalls that punctuation was introduced by a 1850 statute allowing segmentation of legislative text. Lawyers fear such marks as easily interpolated and altered and avoid them in legal documents.
Correspondents with the army at Vera Cruz gain insights into Mexican cities founded by Spaniards before Jamestown and Plymouth. They note Vera Cruz public buildings compare well with homes, Puebla houses a vast library at the medical school, and the City of Mexico features architecture admired by travelers. The piece highlights culture amid Mexico’s turmoil.
A quirky ad urges making floral offerings before fragrance is gone. It lists alfalfa seed at 5.50 and farms for sale on crop payments from J Mulhall in Sow City, La. The note ends with a saying about valuing a picture by its frame.
During removal of an enamel plate outside the Teddington post office three postcards dated October 1891 were found wedged between the plate and frame. After 23 years they were discolored yet two addresses remained decipherable and they have been delivered.
Gibbs notes the navy has abolished liquor and Bibbs quips that the bayonet may be banned from the army next, recalling how liquor used to make a punch. The exchange mirrors humor about military restrictions and weapon use.
Philadelphia and Providence women report displacement bearing down backache and relief after six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ads claim the remedy restores health, sleep, appetite, and work capacity amid female derangements and inflammatory conditions.
One hundred years ago the British fleet on Lake Ontario tried a strict blockade of Sackett's Harbor, while Commodore Chauncey prepared a new American squadron. Americans hauled the flagship Niagara’s great cable overland to keep their guns ready, and a few weeks later the British withdrew from the lake.
The Kaiser orders meals not exceed three quarters of an hour and bans post dessert male dining with wine and cigars. No separation of sexes at meals, coffee shared, and men may smoke before the drawing room. Berlin society, noted for large feasts, resents the rule but the Kaiser aims to enforce it.
A local Eberswalde newspaper owner prints the General Anzeiger on one side twice weekly to avoid ink contamination, keeping the paper useful for wrapping provisions while preserving reading material for the public.
Restoration of the original Star Spangled Banner flag, which flew at Fort McHenry when Key wrote the anthem, has begun at the Smithsonian. Mrs. Fowler of Boston leads the project, noted for restoring 75 War of 1812 trophy flags now at the Naval Academy with a $30,000 congressional appropriation. A souvenir program for the centennial celebration in September was approved as a advertising-free publication. Sleep Better Than Sermon is a humorous anecdote about Mr and Mrs Gladstone at Cannés.
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