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Newspaper
Basin Republican
Location
Basin, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1916
Page
5
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote laments coaxing a shy public to sing and jokes about the dish towel regime and a henpecked husband. Judge notes about post election persuasion reveal how friends think they could have swung a close race.
A young man who clung to a belief that two could live on one awakens to the truth as the family doctor congratulates him saying the expected arrival is twins. The moment marks a complete shift from doubt to joyous Seward County news reporting the event.
A new title The Fun of Cooking appears among household reading items. It seems a companion volume to The Joy of Sock Darning and The Ecstasy of Dish Washing, suggesting playful domestic hobbies and practical pleasures for homemakers.
A quotation on nursing stresses reverence and discretion akin to matrimony, urging sober conduct and fear of God as guiding principles in the profession, attributed to Sarah Comstock in Good Housekeeping.
Opie Read, a noted American author and lecturer, will appear this season. Known for entertaining and instructing audiences in refined English, Read is praised as an original thinker and master storyteller whose recitals blend humor, philosophy, and social reform. He portrays Lim Jacklin’s adventures as a strong critique of fraud and abuse.
Basin Lyceum hosts a course session Friday May 5. The Mann Hotel offers a special fifty cent dinner every Sunday from 1 to 2 pm. This item notes local events and dining promotions.
At the New York Navy Yard General William H Emory finds a mess attendant from Barbados brings a so called message from the general Delivery. The exchange ends when the attendant hands Emory a genuine general delivery letter.
The piece notes Coleridge’s warning against treating literature as a trade and cites examples of writers who followed varied careers. Besant served as secretary for the Palestine Exploration Fund, Stedman worked as a Wall Street banker and stockbroker, and Blackmore was a market gardener.
An ancient custom was observed in Chard Somerset where burgesses conducted the annual letting of market tolls. An hour-glass was used and bids were placed as sand trickled. The final bid before the sand ran out determined the buyer of the tolls.
Mrs Jonathon Hop remarks that many things anger a man but the surest fire is correcting the pronunciation of a word when explaining where you stand. She speaks in dialect as quoted by the Pittsburgh Dispatch.
A brief household note explains saving starch by letting it settle, pouring off the water, and drying the remaining starch in a warm oven to form a hard cake for reuse. The advice treats starch as a reusable resource, though the style reads like a practical tip from an old manual.
In a drawling voice Charlie Loftleigh declares his uncertainty after college. He mentions his mother urging him toward the Republican path and references a yearly fee of two dollars. The fragment hints at future plans, political expectations, and familial pressure.
Notice to Basin electors of an election at the town hall on May 9 1916 for one mayor and two councilmen. J A Berry serves as mayor and signs the proclamation.
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