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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
8
A former burglar describes playing the burglar in a staged safe opening for a wholesale firm. He recounted drilling a combination locked safe while clerks and a portly boss coordinated the ruse. Police later exposed the trio as confederates and the witness faced legal trouble.
The Manchester Guardian reports a crowded London bus scene where a loud woman pressed for a seat, pushing her husband’s patience as passengers watched. A well-dressed man finally gave up his seat, prompting the woman to boast he was not her husband.
Historical account details the Boethick Indians of Newfoundland once inhabiting the island. It notes their peaceful hunter lifestyle, birch rind canoes, lack of pottery, soapstone lamps, carved bone and horn ornaments, and distinctive triangular carvings with unique patterns in the St John museum collection. The piece also mentions French use of Mic Mae Indians of Nova Scotia against them.
At a racecourse Pat declines bets until two friends win large sums. Urged again, he bets half a crown on a horse, which finishes sixth. In dismay he seeks the rider in the paddock asking in injured tones why he delayed, the scene described by the London Chronicle.
The piece asserts no authenticated case of whisky curing snake bites and notes that many bitten while intoxicated die. It states alcohol often fails to save lives and that stimulation may lower resistance, potentially causing deaths that would not occur otherwise.
An OCR fragment depicts a dramatic domestic dispute in which a father vows disinheritance and even violence over a suitor named Squilldiggs. The text includes garbled snippets about allowances, class notes, and a casual purchase of a necktie, suggesting a mixed, unreliable extract.
A late 19th century essay observes that most noses seem to point to the right as people move through life. The author suggests a link to habitual right handedness and frequent nose blowing, proposing that noses gradually incline eastward during development. Left handed individuals reportedly tilt left, though data remain inconclusive.
Altheas show their Rose of Sharon flowers in August and September. When planting a tree, prune last season’s growth to one third to three fourths based on roots. The gold coreopsis and feathery shoots of garden asparagus create a simple vase decoration. Watercress thrives when leaves are large and indicate tissue strength. The safest pruning rule is to keep water on young trees and remove any small branch with a knife. Large-top trees like elms, silver maples, and lindens should be 45 feet apart to allow room and reduce shade. Sweet William must be purchased for a new garden as spring-sown seed won’t bloom until the next spring, though they then persist year after year.
A historical note explains a persistent surface current from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and an opposing bottom current of salty, sulphurated water from the Mediterranean. This dense bottom water is devoid of life below roughly 100 fathoms and emits a rotten egg smell when surfaced.
An English patron in a New England restaurant questions his first course asking what it is. The waiter replies it is bean soup, provoking the patron to insist on a precise identification rather than its past. The exchange is reported by the Philadelphia Times.
A classroom exchange defines the misheard term happysies as pieces of pork entirely surrounded by beans, echoed in a Chicago Record-Herald blurb. The joke hinges on student Waldo's literal interpretation.
A collage of quotes reflects talent as aptitude to cultivate, the perils of drowning sorrow in bowls, and Italy’s claim of fifty chemical fertilizer factories. The fragment blends motivational lines, a lyric-like proverb, and an economic blurb.
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