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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
7
A lively string of overheard lines and witticisms from a neighborhood column. Banter about drinks, garden variety jokes, a gin ger bottle, and toastworthy quips, with hints of advertising chatter and barroom chatter from local patrons.
A lively fragment recalls a circus visit with talking fleas debating a golf game on a lynx and a monkey. The piece blends humorous, racy asides with journalistic blurbs about reputation, a car incident, and a sermonic reflection on biblical reading and Josiah’s reforms.
The lesson notes the discovery of the Book of the Law during temple repairs led by Hilkiah the high priest. Shaphan the scribe delivered the Law to King Josiah, who read it with the priests and elders, followed by a call for repentance and obedience to God’s will.
The excerpt describes mud huts with rough doors and no chimneys, early chimneys considered luxurious a century later, fires burned against mud walls, smoke rising through roofs, wool furnishings, pallets for beds, wood pillows, and bare windows without glass. Nobility also lacked glass while cleanliness was rare and Herbert Spencer notes education and pleasure as exclusive ideas.
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