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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1909
Page
2
A Salisbury to London coach episode in 1816 ends when a lioness escaped from a traveling show is seen beside the lead horse. The beast seizes a horse, a mastiff helps subdue it, and guards, a guard, and bystanders restrain the animal. The horse sustains injuries but recovers.
A recipe combines grated chocolate and milk with egg yolk cooked to thick, cooled, then mixed with butter sugar milk vanilla flour and baking soda. Bake in layers, fill with apricot spread, then top with a stiff meringue sweetened with sugar. Source Chicago Record Herald.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer joke notes a plaster ceiling fall at an orchestra concert last night. A sleeping man nearby wakes and cries Wagner, prompting the observer to deduce the performer. The item plays on mistaken Wagner association and a lighthearted mishap.
A discussion on how articulation and eloquence grant social advantage surpassing mere talent. It asserts conversational skill elevates influence, pleasure, and recognition, with quotes from Success Magazine author Orison Swett Marden and a hotel potato salad recipe as interjected examples.
A three year old girl and her mother in a drug store are drawn to a scent bag in the showcase. The clerk explains the item and the child, thinking it cheap, requests two scent bags. The moment captures a child's literal misreading of price and purpose.
The instructions describe heating corn with butter water and pulverized sugar, bringing to a thread and pouring over popped corn. It then advises stirring briskly to coat, removing from heat and stirring until each grain is crystallized with sugar.
Instructions for removing grime with ammonia and brushing, followed by cold water rinse and drying. For lacquered brass, wash with warm soapy water, dry with a soft cloth, then polish using a dry chamois skin.
Cut four bananas crosswise in thin slices. Add two thirds of a cup of powdered sugar and let stand an hour. Then add one quart of water and the grated lemon peel. When sugar is dissolved, freeze as you would ice cream.
Ir J N Tall notes heart risks at high elevations match other places but are amplified dangerwise. He cites inflammation of the heart muscle, artery hardening, and dilation as major issues along with the strain of reduced atmospheric pressure. Patients should avoid overexertion and gradual acclimation to prevent angina and acute dilation.
In Wide World Magazine a lion hunt party in British East Africa includes Walter Cooper Captain H and his sister. The sister kills four lions while the men tally five. a tenth lion dies in a failed capture attempt as a native carrier flees. Miss H fires again. Hassan is struck while the lioness lunges and a misfire ends with the rifle barrel in the beast’s throat.
An eighteenth century portrait of Miss Pelham daughter of the English prime minister, famed for ruinous gambling at cards. Accounts recall her night sessions at the club with hundreds lost and tempers flaring as tears flowed. Contemporary Lady Mary Compton shared a similar gambling fate and cried over lost cards.
An anecdote from Stories of the English Artists recounts Turner's reluctance to part with paintings. Gillott, a Birmingham manufacturer, tempted him with £5,000 in cash and Turner quipped that the money was “mere paper.” Gillott bought several Turners after the exchange.
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