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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1940
Page
8
Dr. David Jebb travels aboard the Nord Express to America with five year old Cynthia Thatcher as ward. He battles a liquor urge after a stop and a fellow passenger aids him with a drink. A strange chant and a mysterious figure appear as the train stops.
Jebb lies near death in a strange land. A veiled, magical figure introduces herself as a watcher from “ Thousand Night and One Nights” and promises aid. She explains a storm brought him here and orders Jaffar to search for a lost Vittla girl while she stays to comfort him.
Miruma reveals her life from Circassia to Istanbul. She explains being bought as a gift wife by a powerful pasha and then married to Fehmi Pasha while keeping her veil. Jebb helps Jaffar after an injury, gaining new leverage as Miruma’s story unfolds.
The article highlights a two volume work All About Tea by William H. Akers and focuses on The World's Greatest Tea Monopoly by the Honorable East India Company. It notes the company’s 1600 charter, its China monopoly, its impact on British policy, and the shift from coffee to tea in England within years. It also mentions Dutch competition and colonial reach in India and Asia.
A sales manager notes that including a telephone number in ads boosts response. He recalls a restaurant ad lacking a number and realizes his own firm should feature the local office contact. Telephone inquiries from interested buyers rise, while kids requesting booklets do not call, cutting waste.
A successful executive often cannot see the outside view of customers. The ad man must provide this perspective to sell a product or service. Retailers and service businesses can uncover compelling stories to boost sales, as routine dulls internal appreciation. Newspaper writers from the country show fresh viewpoints.
The term cigar traces to the Spanish cigarral meaning an orchard or fruit garden. Hosts once offered home grown tobacco with Es de mi cigarral, interpreted as from my garden. The word evolved through cigarrro to cigarelle and finally to the English cigar.
A traveler returning from Wilno Poland notes twelve churches there all constructed by a single builder nicknamed Pac. His tomb bears the terse inscription Here lies a sinner Pac.
A new all metal electric fly trap reportedly outperforms flypaper by electrocuting flies and storing remains in a removable tray. Lisbon Portugal features odd street names such as the Street of the Little Englishman and the Street of the Mother of War.
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