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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1909
Page
7
The Hoffing and Foley families extend sincere thanks to neighbors and friends for valued assistance and sympathy during illness and after the death of the late Mrs. Frank Hottman. Gratitude is also given for the beautiful floral offerings from Frank Hoffing and family and Mrs M Foley and Family.
A Pearson's Weekly piece traces how hair length and beards fed political and religious conflict. It cites France under Louis VII cutting curls, Eleanor of Aquitaine’s disdain, Henry II’s rise, and Peter the Great taxing beards with copper borodovala tokens for entry.
A description of intimate gardens along the Bosphorus in Constantinople. Homes perched on hillsides offer secular shading from cedar groves while terraces reveal the sea as a distant ornament. Grand canal work blends with thrice-enclosed water walls and marble boat basins connected by water gates and quays.
A man called the Trouble Man sits in his doorway content to smoke a pipe. People rush up, enter, then leave with heavy burdens. He explains that in the old days he forced goods on people, but now everyone comes to him and he simply tends shop.
A fragment describes a royal scene with the king counting money in his room and the queen eating bread and honey in the kitchen. The couple acts to mislead neighbors about their whereabouts as life resembled a past era in olden times.
An elderly lady, fearful at a crowded crossing, clings to a stranger who guides her across. They narrowly avoid danger from a bus, taxi, bicycle, tram, and cart, while she scolds him for risking her life. The man replies he is blind and offered to lead her anyway.
A letter from Omaha Bee recalls Felicien Fallis one of Dakota’s first settlers and guide for Gen George A Custer in 1873. Mrs Elizabeth Custer praised Fallis for deep knowledge of Indians and close ties during the Yankton Falls expedition and early Dakota days.
John Walker, an English chemist, invented the match in 1827 by rubbing a dipped stick on a table. The Walker match, a lead-pencil size cigarette lighter, sold for a shilling a box but was displaced by the Holden lucifer in 1833. Sweden now dominates global match exports, yet no statue marks Walker. Additionally, the piece critiques the English borrowings in foreign words and calls for a tariff on words.
The excerpt shows a courtroom style exchange where the questioner probes the defendant Valesmann about his status as a freeholder and his marital condition. The dialogue hints at a prior incident with a mule and a candor challenged by the judge as to his opinions or opinions rendered in the past.
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