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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
6
Abel Pond stands firm at six hundred dollars for a library site though a counter offer seeks five hundred. He proposes seven hundred with a signed hundred to jumpstart local subscriptions and spur public duty. The tale also recalls a Transvaal apology excerpt praising candid retracting.
An Atlantan recalls Joel Chandler Harris as a willing editor who corrected an error about him in Harris's columns. The anecdote touches on newspaper contradictions and the practice of public apologies, with Harris, dubbed Uncle Remus, noted for taking down a scrap of misprint and setting it straight.
In a light lunch cafe a waiter serves five men who order coffee cake coffee milk biscuit milk tea buns tea cocoa cocoanut pie cocoa and finally an ice cream with ice water. The fifth man rejects a chocolate cake and instead requests ice cream and ice water.
A Tennessee light mulatto tells Roy Stannard Baker a story of passing as white. He boards a Mississippi River steamer to Cincinnati with a first class ticket, sits with whites, then, after loneliness and nightfall, joins negro passengers and sings along. He concludes he has been a negro ever since.
Robert Fulton was born in Little Britain Lancaster County Pennsylvania on November 14 1765. His biographers call him a self made man and note limited references to his parentage. His father failed to provide financial patrimony but owned other notable early achievements. The Fulton lineage traces from Kilkenny Ireland to America before 1735 with the senior Fulton active in Lancaster town life as a church founder a fire company secretary and a charter member of Juliana library.
An explorer describes a tiny desert insect called the fourmilion. It digs a funnel pit the size of a silver dollar and waits at the bottom. When a spider ant or beetle probes the slope it blasts them with a hail of sand causing disorientation before storing the victim in its larder.
The tallout palm of Ceylon Corypha umbraculifera bears fruit once in a lifetime. It grows about ten feet trunk diameter and reaches 180 feet tall. Its flowers appear in a tall spathe bursting with a plume of blossoms signaling the tree’s death. After flowering, large fruit clusters form and the tree withers within a fortnight, lying decayed where it stood.
A remark notes Halleck never wed yet attracted notice from a society lady who vowed to marry him if she were walking to church. It adds an epigram about autograph requests and a playful line on a poet’s fame.
Fragment from a Puck cartoon caption shows Mr Subberton shouting about food orders and a former restaurant cook on a raft with nautical chaos and absurd demand. The exchange includes breakfast items like cantaloupe and a playful aside about keeping a staffer on the job.
A wedding breakfast ends with a notorious blunderer rising and offering a toast to the bridegroom. He wishes him many more days like the one just enjoyed, prompting mixed reactions from guests and a moment of social awkwardness.
A Philadelphia Press quote panel contrasts a scientist’s claim of edible wood with a cranky boarder’s doubt about extracting flavor. The fragmentary item frames a humorous, period tone dialogue amid editorial banter.
Four year old Mabel answers her mother’s caution with confidence claiming she can hold herself steady. The exchange captures a playful bedrock moment of toddler self reliance during a downhill stroll.
A New York Sun item quotes hotel clerks debating the hardest task of waking a deaf guest. Ringing or knocking fails, so some suggest tying a string to the guest’s wrist and tugging at a set time, though that risks intruding on others. One clerk imagines a patentable device could win fame and gratitude.
The article explains that a mullah is a religious leader across India and the east. It notes the sacred status of mullahs and the Ullma as a legal code where injuring a mullah demands death as atonement. It references Habibullah and the powerful reverence surrounding these figures.
A Philadelphia Bulletin report cites water inhaling as the chief danger to swimmers. A lifeguard explains that inhaled spray can pass into the windpipe, causing rapid helpless drowning, while swallowing water itself is harmless. Preventing inhalation remains unresolved.
The piece recalls old horse lung remedies using shot and milk and notes a human application in Idlehurst with sparrow shot for brown kiters. It mentions a Sussex doctor and a patient whose head was iced with a bag, prompting the quip that Tommy’s better because the mice are dead.
A young Lancashire recruit defends himself at headquarters before his commanding officer. He shouts silence and tells the adjutant to be quiet, saying he is addressing the old chap in the chair.
In a Chicago Record-Herald quip, a bystander questions a scrawny bowlegged man speaking to Miss Rockingham. The response identifies him as Count Brisczpicksnitzel and notes his apparent noble bearing after a shift in stance.
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