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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1908
Page
6
Editorial discusses the ideal of a model wife who nurtures a peaceful home, quiet confidant to her husband, and cultivator of love. It links marital virtue to a successful, respected family life and warns against wealth chasing over family harmony. The piece ends with a call for virtuous, earnest youth and hopeful, fruitful living.
A long plea describes the ideal boy as brave, truth speaking, loyal to parents, and determined to begin at the bottom and earn success through education and self control. It urges neat dress and home responsibility, warns against bad reading and misbehavior, and stresses purpose as the path to achievement.
A reflective exhortation urges steady effort and purposeful living. It compares life to rowing upstream toward hidden riches and counsels steering choices rather than drifting passively.
An advertisement urges women to avoid cosmetic treatments for complexion and promotes Green's August Flower as a liver acting remedy to purify and enrich blood, improve digestion, and cure constipation biliousness nervousness and insomnia. Trial size offered at 25 cents and regular at 75 cents at Frost Spies.
In Venice gondolas move with sentient grace guided by the car’s impulse and the gondoliers calls. The piece notes how death is approached with tenderness among gondoliers, referencing Paolo the gondolier and a brass band funeral in the ghetto near the Rialto as described by Vance Thompson in Outing Magazine.
From sturgeon backbone dried into macaroni like pieces, vesiga soup is made. Marketed to the China trade, it’s praised as highly nutritious and invigorating, rivaling turtle and beche de mer. Varieties include scarlet trapang of Macassar and trapangs from Borneo and Leuconia, priced around $2.50 per pound.
An illustrated 40 page guide offering 46 wild animals in natural colors. Includes a fur animal calendar, gun and trap catalog, and prices for hides and furs. Free delivery with 10 cent stamps or silver, or upon purchase. Fur Dept. N. W. Hide & Fur Co. Minneapolis Minnesota.
The article surveys unusual church pews in England. detachable seats that tip and trap sleepers, grand squire’s seating with private doors at Gatton Surrey and Colwich Staffordshire, Windsor royal pew above the choir, a Norfolk Benjamin church stranger pew carved with a skeleton, and Trowbridge square pews used for whist.
A humorous exchange among Lord Tennyson, Rev James White, and publisher John Blackwood reveals the poet’s playful side. White claims Bonchurch, Tennyson replies that White means the hole he lives in, silencing the rector.
Diogenes enters a pawn shop and asks for value of his lantern. The pawnbroker notes an antique pattern and asks for its worth. Diogenes, humbled, declares that it is worth nothing, a reflection on centuries of scorn.
The Cornhill Magazine quotes on life and freedom of the will. It highlights how few turn life into a crafted achievement and how the method matters more than the task. The piece praises those who struggle with life and shape it by principle.
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