16 Dec 1905
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1905
Page
1
Fragmentary poem-like lines reflect fears for national glory and security amid free trade and wealth chasing gains. The distressed voice critiques conquest, commerce, and inequality, contrasting prosperity with moral costs and social fragility.
Agnes faces a choice between a forbidden lover across the bridge and a husband, Mr Marsland, a former Civil War figure who gifts her a refined home. After a tense reconciliation, Marsland resolves to help her escape with the lover but dies at the moment of happiness, leaving Agnes with the tragic price of love.
In dusk, a woman tells Charles Fremont she cannot go with him because her husband has just died. He concedes, noting the death absolves her, and she points to the Canadian side. Fremont departs, leaving her to mourn beside the grave and cross into sorrow.
A northwest side coal merchant debuts a bold ad stunt by employing a petite brunette as a living storefront drawing card. The woman sits at the window all day, instructed to appear happy and not flirt, while the owner handles office work and sales. Sign painters seek her unionization, arguing she reduces manual window lettering.
A group of former Long Island boys plan a revenge on speeding motorists by towing a dusty cloud behind a buggy. A strong horse pulls the rig while a cedar log drags behind to raise a dust storm as autos approach. Drivers speed up to avoid the choking dust, then slow to clear their lungs after thirty yards.
The passage argues that French views on population imitation rest on a solemn sense of parental responsibility. It asserts that no French person would knowingly sire or raise children without ensuring they have a fair chance at a happy life. A Parisian view is quoted about keeping daughters from luxury yet secure, framed as a societal duty and moral crime if neglected.
A. H. McLeod, longtime freight traffic manager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, will retire from that post after thirty years. In appreciation of his service he will be given the title of general agent of the freight department.
A poem like tale describes a creaking house and eerie voices as shadows creep at night while a child fears a witch. The issue also features a simple child’s project step by step for building a small 14 by 10 inch table with legs and side pieces. It ends with humorous vignettes about bantams and a moral about honesty and a water melon lesson from a Virginia plantation.
A schoolroom brain game asks players to name foods without the letter P, with forfeit twists for errors. The second item explains flag half mast origins, noting naval mourning. in the seventeenth century Spaniards used it as a distress signal, later adopted by English and French sailors and tied to funerals in England.
A National Magazine method advises heating water and using a wide mouthed bottle to steam over the injured hand. The steam pulls out the splinter and any inflammation within a minute or two, with the user urged to try the technique to be convinced.
Parlor football lets girls play inside a dining room with a wire prop and netted goals. Players snap a wire under the ball to drive it toward touchdowns, with kick-offs and fixed rules. Each game is worth thirty points and offers lively, inclusive play alongside boys after their season ends.
The Manchester University professor presented teachers with findings on a terrier's mind. He concluded dogs learn how things go but not the go of them, actions being intelligent yet not rational. Habits, not morals, driven by presentiments of punishment.
A speaker urges vigilance and hard work to seize chances before they vanish. It contrasts alert workers who notice chances even in barren places with those blinded by waiting. Bunyan’s prison writings are cited as an example of opportunity found under constraint.
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