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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1902
Page
6
A National Magazine tone passage describes the Mississippi River bending past New Orleans. It notes the river's vast flow, depths up to 200 feet, and flood dangers, while detailing levee networks, state expenditures, and the odd threat from crawfish and muskrats to the earthen embankments.
An old story revived shows fresh humor and humanity. Mike bet Larry he could not carry him up a ladder in a hod to the roof. Larry ascends with Mike on his shoulder, slips near the top, saves him with the hod, and finally dumps him on the roof. Mike concedes he won the bet only after the near fall.
The article notes iron horseshoes were introduced in the fourth century AD. Romans used leather soles and bags on hard roads to protect hooves but later may have nailed shoes on. Some scholars believe the crescent shaped shoe of modern times originated in Asia.
A New York Press quip recounts President Arthur entertaining former New York chums and a boastful exchange about drunkenness. The scene includes the sharp rebuke that a poniceman never hears his head was drunk and a plebe claiming an old tale is new.
The narrator recalls a Dr. Talmage anecdote about a very large woman boarding a Brooklyn horse car. A man mutters about carrying elephants, triggering the woman to gesture toward the rear and shout to the conductor that there would be an elephant and hog if this car and the elephant animals fit.
A court faces a charge of witchcraft based on a sorcerer’s parchment, tied to a supposed cure for a child’s ague given thirty years earlier. The judge recalls a prank that funded a pub bill, while a London Mirror note cites Maori cooking mishaps with soap baked into meals.
A bereaved, retiring man asked to be remembered in prayer without name. The minister praised him from the pulpit calling him “our aged brother,” prompting an elderly man who had married a much younger wife to interrupt with loud, public protest ridicu ling the prayer.
Mushrooms arise from spawn and the best spawn comes from England using animal droppings dried and pressed into bricks. Growers change soil in beds frequently and maintain bed temperatures monitored by thermometers. This care yields good mushrooms though not essential for ordinary quality.
The article notes year end debt liquidation as a tradition in China. It describes creditors' pressure and a Choraman setting his house ablaze to plead poverty and beg the gods for money, claiming divine ruin.
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