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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1907
Page
6
During the Ladysmith siege General Sir Ian Hamilton jokes about serving horse as meat to a table of officers. Ward discovers the mix up when a servant announces the dish was horse, creating silence before Tennilten admits he had eaten the horse.
A fragment discusses extraordinary animal strengths with oysters and limpets capable of hundreds to thousands of times their body weight. It then shifts to a linguistic note on the misuse of "at London" and irregular English usage in a London Stand article.
A Travel Magazine writer recalls summer scenes in Reykjavik with lava walls, warmth and fields in bloom, then shifts to theater notes on stage doors. The piece contrasts Icelandic landscapes with practical observations of door handling in performance spaces.
A Towershire vicar asks Betty to join antiphonal singing but she refuses, saying singing is a gift not praise. The Pall Mall Gazette notes the exchange as a moral sketch amid other brief items. Chinese troops are trained to carry increasing weights in knapsacks, starting at two ounces daily and climbing to sixteen pounds, enabling ten hours of continuous running in a dog trot.
A humorous anecdote recalls an Irishman and friend passing a jeweler window with stones. The exchange ends with a quip about choosing versus personal tool limits, illustrating a lighthearted patriot note from a Washville American voice.
The old broker questions the timid applicant, then declares any American boy who dislikes baseball must be a freak and suggests he belongs in a dime museum. The lad admits he has never seen a game, and hints at a cautious, awkward start to a job inquiry in a Chicago News item.
Dr. Austin Flint remarks on a will contest at the Century club in New York, comparing it to a tale of a young man who claimed his aunt was of sound mind only after inheriting her fortune. A second joke features a maid and a suitor debating proper grammar, ending with a playful quip.
A boy at the breakfast table on Good Friday receives a burnt small hot cross bun. He corrects his mother with the quip this seems to be a hot cross bunko. The line captures a child’s wry humor from a Woman's Home Companion piece.
A witty exchange from C C Chambers' Journal pits a dull student against a professor. The student replies that Alexander the Great conquered the world by the time he was the professor’s age, noting Aristotle was his teacher.
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