Golden Dreams Amid Roses: A Poetic Fragment
A fragment describes a boy amid roses and a timeless beauty titled golden dreams with lyrical imagery. The line hints at nostalgic mood and romantic or dreamlike themes without clear narrative.
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
3
A fragment describes a boy amid roses and a timeless beauty titled golden dreams with lyrical imagery. The line hints at nostalgic mood and romantic or dreamlike themes without clear narrative.
A wartime veteran narrates learning at Hythe about musketry and the Maxim gun. He recalls staff secrecy, foreign observers, and a chance meeting with a foreign lady's maid who questions artillery education. The tale reflects tensions between display and secrecy in military training.
In a memoir style tale a sergeant Harding hides a Maxim sketch while an instructor pursues it. Lieutenant Brown orders arrest after the narrator admits taking the drawing from behind the instructor and colliding with a foreign flirt on the pier. The narrator describes the scene and the ensuing capture.
A novel military transport method has been adopted by the Russian army for use in roadless Asiatic districts. The system uses a single wheel within a light wooden frame with shafts attached on each side, simplifying movement where wagons are inefficient.
The design places the load on a central frame with a single wheel and iron socket, mules harnessed on both sides of the frame, a fixed short shaft hooks to two collars, and a double pack saddle supports the load. This arrangement balances weight and reduces tipping risk through levered collar connection.
Joseph H. Yoder writes in Ohio Farmer about proper horse feeding. He stresses frequent meals for working horses due to small stomachs, warns against watering after meals, and advocates mix of oats hay and grain with a preference for good timothy hay. He notes horses enjoy variety and warns against too much hay with too little grain.
The article claims the United States leads Europe in harvesters and gasoline powered mowers exhibited in Paris. It notes two American machines among those on display, with cutting devices not described and one firm using gearing to transmit power from a source to the drive.
George W. Hostler describes a spraying regimen that improved fruit yields over four years. He credits London purple, lime water, and careful timing to prevent overwintering pests and rotting, noting success with apples plums gooseberries currants pears and peaches. He reports saving 42 large plums in one clump using lime treatment.
A brief suggestion from Country Gentleman promotes a simple coal bin modification. A worn-out bake pan fastened before a kitchen coal opening prevents dirt from escaping into the room and reduces kitchen labor.
Advice for storing cabbage through winter using a cool cellar or outdoor pit. Directions include leaving roots and most leaves on, stacking heads compactly, placing roots downward near the surface, and covering with straw and earth. For outdoor pits prepare a dry location, dig a shallow long trench, place heads down with roots upward, then seal to prevent freezing.
The article discusses how the term crank shifts in meaning from oddity to accusation. It argues that doctors, health officers, journalists, and reformers are labeled cranks by rivals and those lacking duty, using the stigma to mask ethical shortfalls and professional politics.
The New York Sun notes coal is abundant worldwide with rich deposits in China Japan Corea Formosa Australia New Zealand the Andes Peru Chile near the sea containing anthracite with low ash Africa parts of the world and North America. Britain relies on Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and India also has coal. More coal awaits discovery as serious searches begin.
Puck records a comical exchange where Little Isaacs-Dot man seeks a straw hat but a vet is unavailable. The speaker questions a goat salesman and jokes about postal or shop offers, ending with a firm neffer.
A Baltimore American note records the college president postponing the fall term as students have not yet chosen their college yells, prompting a delay while school spirit choices are resolved.
A playful exchange quotes a farmer and a poet from a newspaper moment. The farmer longs to land a rough catch and to pull a stubborn feeder, reflecting rural wit and idealized life.
A Detroit Free Press quote notes four workers produce a high-grade cashmere shawl in a year while a husband explains it took four years to pay for his wife’s shawl. The exchange highlights cost and time in textile artistry.
A testimonial from Mrs Charlotte Johnson of Monclova Ohio describes dramatic relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for long lasting womb and related health issues. The letter states improvement from ten weeks bedridden to activity, with ongoing flow but overall recovery praised as a cure and echoed by many similar letters on file.
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