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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
6
A swamp tale describes a spotted turtle catching a terrapin and savoring a lengthy meal. The turtle gazes contentedly, waves forelegs, and pats the world with a calm, patient appetite before sinking toward a nap beneath tussock roots.
A clever attorney faced a poisoning case and defended a client by declaring the cakes are harmless. He ate one in court to prove a point but fled to an antidote after, and the jury never learned of the emetic or antidote.
Advertisement claims Hick's Capu Cine relieves fever and ache from malarious conditions colds or overheating. Sold as Liquid-10e in bottles 256 and 50 cents at drug stores.
The veteran St. Louis politician Colonel Ed Butler, in poor health, visits a Kansas City physician who notes his right leg weakness stems from old age. Butler counters that the other leg is the same age, dismissing age as the cause.
A Chicago News quips about a written piece on Colonel Roosevelt in the Jungle where the writer claims a taxi was called after dispatching a lion. The editor reveals the author meant a taxidermist, exposing a humorous misread rather than a factual claim.
The text traces the hand kiss origin from ancient servile bowing and rank clues, noting it likely preceded lip kissing and linking it to reverent acts toward sacred objects. It cites biblical, Greek, and Roman mentions and connects the gesture to the Latin adoro and salutes to statues or superiors.
A seventeenth century statue in Yarmouth Isle of Wight was unfinished and intended for Louis XV of France. Captured en route by a British warship commanded by Holmes, the artist was forced to fit Holmes’s head onto the king's body. Holmes later became Isle of Wight governor, explaining the statue’s location.
A humorous tale recounts Florence promising a man a fish or game before a hunting trip. Day after day a telegram arrives claiming the prize is en route, with polite replies at first. As delays lengthen, the recipient grows impatient and is haunted by large fish or deer sent with W. J. Florence's compliments until the gift finally arrives.
A discussion notes eighteenth century sentiment in hymns shows death as a fair sight and recalls a verse from Hymns Ancient and Modern about the dead unable to rise for church. The Loudon Chronicle comments on the incongruity and humor found in such lines.
An intoxicated gentleman studies a bridge warning sign reading Loads Must Not Be Taken Across the Bridge Faster Than a Walk. He mutters that even with such limits, men can do better than a walk.
Mr Jeune recalls Lord Sherbrooke’s patient and affectionate behavior toward his wife and asks if Disraeli believes he has ever seen her. Disraeli replies in a deep tone that the question hints at the man’s public and private personas, from the Memoirs of Lady St. Helier.
Daniel Merton funds church repairs and redecorating while Serena Webb defies new fashions. On Thanksgiving he sits beside her in the old Merton pew and recalls boyhood. a restored church and a quirky carpet seal their renewed happiness.
Be es Laxative Cough Syrup highly recommended for colds and coughs. It claims to drive the cold from the system via the bowels while soothing throat irritation and inflammation. Sold by J L Wikle.
The eruptions of Vesuvius greatly increase the fertility of the ground in the vicinity, enriching soils and benefiting agricultural areas around the volcano.
A confirmed old bachelor in a city hotel vows to spend New Year’s Day as usual visiting married friends and noting their worries. He jokes about ice cream in his hat and hiding candy, then returns to his bachelor rooms to swear off matrimony for another year.
During a visit, Mrs Humphrey Ward is asked if American women are beautifully dressed. She replies that they are, but comments on the notion that a woman is incomplete without a divorcee suit, as quoted by the Boston Herald.
Commuters nicknamed The Intellectuals ride daily between summer homes and New York. Each morning they form a white horse pool by guessing the number of white horses along the rails. The closest guess wins the pool.
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