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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1909
Page
7
A famed prize detective story by F. R. Burton and a collaborator won five prizes but was never published after editors refused print due to fears it could reveal a method to rob safes with time locks. Burton proved the method’s accuracy, but a signed agreement barred publication and any future release.
Enrico Caruso recalled a curious tale told in Philadelphia about buying in Paris and later realizing a better choice could have been found closer to home. He described a stairway encounter near Bellevue-Stratford with a marble bench from Florence as part of the anecdote.
A tale from the North China Herald tells of a map loving Changan host famed for terrible dinners. A guest pleads on his knees for one favor before rising asking not to be invited again. The demand shocks the party into laughter.
A London Penoy Pictorial caption shows a commercial traveler pressed to inspect a shop’s sapples despite the shopkeeper’s refusal. The traveler asks to see the goods himself, citing three weeks since last viewing them.
In a London Mail exchange, a reader asks if cigars contain rope. The jokemakers respond that rope is not used and hemp is too costly for cheap cigar brands.
A discussion of how to pronounce Pepys, noting variants like leeps l eppis and Peeps. Percy Lubbock and James Carrasse offer spellings, with 1679 Lucida intervaila and London Chronicle citing Pepys as Pips, showing contested pronunciation among contemporaries.
The article recalls Joe Miller as the grave actor blamed for witticisms he never authored. His death drew respect, but posthumous forgeries appeared in Joe Miller’s Jests, traced to Elijah Jenkins and John Mottley, echoing earlier literary forgeries.
The article notes that masculine emancipation from the wig arose after the French Revolution and ensuing wars. Scarcity of flour and hair powder taxes contributed to banning the powdered wig, while Jacobinism promoted leveling style. Walpole in 1791 lamented the new generation’s shaggy hair and dirtier shirts.
In a Harper's Magazine vignette, Hazel, seven, feeds a cat at the table and protests her father’s rule that the cat must wait. She tears up, saying it’s a shame to treat a poor dumb animal like a hired girl.
A fragment from the New York Press captures a bedroom exchange where a woman complains of a terrible headache and menacing fatigue while correcting a misstatement about taking her hair down. The dialogue hints at intimate tension.
A Latin proverb notes that corruption of the best leads to the worst outcomes. The maxim highlights moral decline when virtue is compromised.
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