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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1922
Page
7
In Seattle the Klondike miner Harry Veness recounts a staged bargain where operators pretended to offer 100000 for his claim. They lured him to a dark office and revealed 10000 in gold coin to coerce signing. The wary miner yielded to the sight of money.
The first exclusive mail train began Sept 18 1875, departing New York and arriving in Chicago the next day after a 26 hour journey, delivering western mail for rapid onward dispatch. By 1899 mail between New York and San Francisco rode fast trains reducing travel time below the quickest passenger trains.
In his first college week a student visits a stationer and, with bold handwriting, writes Alma later Alma Mater on a sheet. The young woman suggests trying it first and changing it if it does not suit as observed by the clerk.
A 1921 report describes a man in England fastening a marked swallow and releasing it to migrate 5000 miles to South Africa. The bird was later found five months later at Jansen le in Natal. Other tagged swallows released in England have appeared in Orange Free State and Transvaal regions.
The fragment shows a dialog about tense in a grammar lesson where a pupil asks about the tense in the phrase My father has money and suggests a humorous misstatement. The dialogue touches on verb tense choice and proper usage with a sober exchange.
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