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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1902
Page
6
A Duluth News Tribune item recounts a girl missing a party for over a week after using powdered alum in her shampoo. She blamed the hair mishap on a whitening plan and avoided friends because her hair looked stringy and damaged.
A reflective meditation on the sins of spoken words and the need for self mastery. The piece warns of careless talk and rash promises that harm others and tarnish character, contrasting virtue with the perils of the tongue. It then shifts to a tale about Xavier de Montepin, the French novelist who pressed for higher terms after rejection and later published the same story.
A peculiar tree in central Indian forests allegedly delivers electric shocks to anyone touching its leaves. It supposedly affects a magnetic needle from seventy feet away and varies with time of day, being strongest at midday and vanishing in wet weather. Birds avoid it and no effects on birds have been observed.
A short moral note from the New York Tribune recounts a bedtime moment where a girl named Alice asks God to “make all the bad people good and all the good people nice” before prayer. The piece defends virtue as worthy and comforting against cynicism.
In a playful banter, Miss Cutting taunts Softleigh about mind reading. He feigns ignorance and she invites him to try reading her thoughts during a future visit, captured in a light Chicago News item.
A man asks for a higher wage explaining his mother has remarried and now needs support for two dependents. The exchange highlights the strain of family needs on earnings in a single week.
A cryptic Yonkers Statesman line ponders an older figure with one foot in the grave and the other in social life, implying a precarious balance between aging and ongoing civic engagement. The remark reflects a sharp, colloquial view of aging figures in public life.
Rodney remarks on living by wit and others lack of it in a Detroit Free Press snippet.
An Outing magazine excerpt describes a rustic Vermont trout cookout. A fire by a tree hosts brook trout cooked on stones with bacon, bread, and clover honey. The scene contrasts refined dining with simple al fresco fare and urges hikers to seek wilderness meals.
A Hartford lawyer argues the phrase lot of land is an American invention tied to colonial land division. He explains parcels were numbered and drawn from a hat, giving each settler the numbered parcel they would occupy.
A senior partner at a downtown jewelry firm notes a stormy pattern where electrical activity triggers watch damage. Lightning and thunder allegedly overwork the repair department for days as mainsprings are wrecked, an odd effect remarked with humor by the jeweler.
A countrywoman in a fashionable uptown hotel asks for rainwater and well water. The bar refuses, noting no mineral waters exist, and jokes about Croton water from city faucets. The exchange echoes nostalgia for rural simplicity in New York.
Society may determine how a man's property is handled after death to prevent heirs from luxury or dispute. The passage argues testators' whims burden law and that society has a right to restrict sense in inheritance matters, remarking on nuisance of wills and their respect by law.
The piece notes superstitions tying bees to illness or death in a family. In Scotland and Ireland a bee entering a cottage, especially a bumblebee, signals impending death for a resident family member. In other places swarming on dead wood is also deemed ominous.
Dialogue shows Teas recalling telling an old beau that you were married. He reacts with disbelief asking how it happened and expressing surprise. The Philadelphia Press fragment captures a moment of external astonishment and personal reminiscence.
A quirky exchange features a character named Mr Courting displaying a penknife and a girl remarking on her sister's gold plate teeth. The dialogue conveys a playful, surreal tone and hints at a quirky social setting.
A remark on how wealth affects views of hobbies. The essay notes that rich individuals may be labeled eccentric for unusual tastes, while a poor man with similar quirks is deemed a crank. It contrasts social perceptions and language around personal tastes.
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