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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1909
Page
3
A woman thanks her employer’s garden while lamenting a ruined plot after a neighbor’s flood. The doctor muses on remedies. the woman explains she avoided harsh talk to keep peace, but vows a grim revenge in a grimly phrased farewell.
A thief aiming at a Maryville bondholder’s fortune bungles his raid and intrudes on an editor’s house. The editor of the Screaming Eagle refuses satire and nets six months of subscriptions to settle the score. The exchange ends with the burglar paying to avoid further trouble.
The Chicago News notes sharp competition among foreign post offices in Palestine with locals gaining free post within districts. It recalls Kai Feng China where clerks fought buyers who forced stamps onto envelopes. In Jerusalem and between Jaffa and surrounding colonies German and Austrian offices offer free local letter delivery.
In New York a dachshund named Schnapps demonstrates fluency in English and German. When his master tells him to tell the young people to go home, the dog barked and ran between the front door and the visitors until they left, proving unusual sagacity for a dachshund.
The discussion of where the primitive man became the white race remains unsettled. Some hold Asia as the origin, others claim Europe as the White man’s homeland with spread to the world. The final word is not yet spoken and the debate may last long.
A specialist orders the popular preacher to rest or face death in three months. The preacher, hopeful and naive, agrees to go abroad immediately seeking needed recuperation.
An artist explains to a visitor that a still life study doubles as a portrait. The work resembles a man’s face, and the artist confirms it is a portrait of Mrs Enpeck’s husband, as reported by Chicago News.
The Cleveland Leader quotes a philosopher of folly joking he plans to marry a woman ten years his senior so he can “catch up” by age fifty. The quip frames a comical view of time and romance.
A sharp reflection notes that it is wrong for a man to praise himself, marking a critical stance attributed to Sterne on vanity and self-commendation.
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