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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1901
Page
19
The passage notes Nasr ed din’s recurring antics in a Turkish folk tale, where a glass window shatters and the proprietor drags him to a cabi. It asserts Western readers may find the humor simple, yet these tales are classics in the Golden Horn region and beloved across the Ottoman Empire.
A wide array of old notes recount bloodhounds used in slave tracking and crime lore, followed by Scottish and English dog stories, then explorations of Aztec tennis games and Montezuma, plus Turkish Nasr ed din Hojah legends about a absent minded professor and his cooking and riot tales.
The article notes ruins at Uxmal and Chichen Itza in Yucatan where vast galleries or apartments are said to have housed many games. It suggests ancient people built large spaces for sports within their ruins.
A Milwaukee man stood at a New York Fifth Avenue hotel door talking and laughing with a friend when a woman with a clipped poodle on a gold chain passed. The dog bumped into passersby, weaving through the crowd like a man between street cars as a partygoer quips about his inebriation.
The best mode of treatment for a severe cold is to go to bed at once with a heated room and a fire. Wear a flannel night garment and have someone bring a big tumbler of very hot homemade lemonade sweetened with glycerine. It will do no harm to drink two tumblerfuls.
A light cartoon caption from Puck features a turkey expressing anxiety about bean-shooter wounds not being fatal. The humor hinges on anthropomorphic fear and a human interaction with fowl.
A 10 year old, Lottie Green of Honeyville New Jersey, frightened off a large catamount by stamping, shouting scat and slamming a door as an animal approached the chicken coop. The incident ends with the cat being knocked back into the yard. A second tale describes Hindu seed magno growth tricks and contrast with quick European observation.
The Zuni medicine men perform a 36 hour corn growth rite during the annual corn festival. They prepare a sand square before the lodge, plant a grain of corn, and watchers see the stalk mature with ears by noon. The mystery, debated by scientists, remains unexplained to whites.
An English hunter describes bear species in Cashmere, noting the black bear’s aggressiveness and cunning. The piece details bears robbing orchards, native villagers defending crops, and an American correspondent’s dramatic encounter with a large black bear in the Lalao valley.
The London Chronicle recalls Morocco as a scattered curiosity with fleeting outrages and rumors of French moves toward Tafilet. It notes Abdul Aziz photographs and kidnappings as fleeting snippets while Tangier and coast ports are seen as gateways to imperial intrigue.
Freeman claims Ketcham has an iron will while Mohrman jokes his wife is a blacksmith in a brief exchange. Puck.
An English hunter pursues a black bear in rugged Cashmere valleys. Bear fights injure three coolies before a bullet ends the animal. The trek features rope bridges, perilous ravines, swift water, and glacier crossings with fatal risks and scarce rewards.
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