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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1908
Page
2
An old man proves to be a misheard command from a foreman on a high rise. A Vermont recruit recalls a green worker grabbing the man as the foreman joked about a tool nicknamed old man. The anecdote showcases stubborn humor of construction sites.
The article notes Thomas Nast and Joseph Keppler as masters of caricature. Nast studied subjects at meetings then sketched from memory after leaving his cane to reobserve features. Keppler often visited Washington to observe statesmen directly and preferred memory to photography.
A carrier pigeon returned after thirty months to Mrs. Nansen in Christiania bearing a note from her husband, explorer Fridtjof Nansen, confirming progress of the polar expedition. The bird’s long voyage spanned frozen wastes and vast seas before reuniting with its awaiting mistress.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer audience piece recalls an afternoon card party where a stout woman drops a chair and jokes about her new fifty dollar corset. She asks another woman to pick up cards, claiming the corset could strain if she leapt. The exchange ends with envy over wearing a fifty dollar corset on the outside.
Chicago News notes that a man s integrity often demands constant vindication, reflecting social scrutiny and public doubt in a terse quotation.
The Cleveland Leader quotes Hobbs and Blobbs in a terse exchange about Misa Gotha. Hobbs mentions a last night remark that shifts attention away from her, while Blobbs notes limited interest.
The report recounts Peter the Great punishing Mazeppa for treason by executing a wooden effigy of the Cossack chieftain. The false Mazeppa wore the real general’s medals, was stripped of honors, and was hanged at the gallows after being strangled.
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