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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1913
Page
2
A Youth's Companion story recounts John Randolph the Roanoke sage using a timed system to cook eggs exactly to his taste. In a southern home with many servants the watchword in and out controlled boiling, requiring six or seven assistants per egg, to ensure perfect doneness.
A century old horological marvel made in London, presented by the East India Company president to the Chinese emperor. The clock is set in a chariot shaped case with an ivory and gold woman figure, her right hand bearing a small clock. Hidden wheels inside the bird on her finger drive time, with a canopy concealing a silver bell and a tiny hammer in the hall.
The account notes a silver timepiece apart from the clock that struck the hours regularly and could be repeated by touching a diamond on the woman's bodice. A chariot scene shows a gold dog at the woman's feet and two birds above, with the ornament nearly entirely gold and richly studded with precious stones.
The article recalls a Montenegrin law tale about a lost bag of riches found untouched on a post in eighteenth century London. It then notes a Conan Doyle anecdote of a mountain inn tale that inspired but was never written. It ends with a remark on brown backed herons and conjugal care at nest duty in Andalusia.
A jumble of excerpts notes affectionate bird salutes, a conceited man’s vanity, a home inquiry gag, whale forelimbs as flippers with rudimentary hind limbs, and a street theatre quip about a boy joining the acting scene with scene shifters.
A humorous exchange from London Sketch shows a customer asking for Charles and the waiter replying he is gone and defunct. The bit plays on wordplay about death and speech, with playful banter about Gibbs-Dubleigh and Dibbs and brain fever as a running joke.
Mrs John T King of the Ladies of Charity committee hosts a gathering at 110 Waldemere avenue to discuss the Colonial booth for Colonavilla the armory decor for the St Vincent de Paul charity show January 28 to 31 plans include temporary side wall structures decorated to reflect colonial origins with elaborate electrical effects a minstrel show featuring young women is planned for one night and Lester Burdick is stage director.
STEPNEY Mrs Perry Hubbell and daughter Vera Hubbell visit Bridgeport this week as guests of Mrs Miles Eastwood. Vera Hubbell recovers from throat operation. Mr Peter Reutter confined at home with lameness. Henry 8 Nichols assists on his meat routes. Wilfred Nichols of Wyoming leaves for Bridgeport and plans a trip to Jacksonville Fla. Messrs Wesley Edwards and Fred erick N Wheeler drawn as jurors for Bridgeport criminal superior court. Wheeler ill. Mr William Hartnett of Bridgeport killed by a train near Monroe station. Miss Carolyn Osborne returns from Bridgeport. Mrs Maud Gould Mrs Arthur Wales and Messrs Raymond Beardsley and Homer Sherman win first prizes at whist club. Lavers Edith Wales John Burr and Frederick Sherman win second prizes. Pessimists warn no ice crop this year.
Fred Godfrey visits New York with friends while A B Hill recovers from injuries in Bridgeport. Juries and illnesses involve William Banks Marquis Metcalf, Benjamin Bulkley, and Sprague Brothwell. Estelle London visits Stratfield. Clifford J. Brotherton leads Greenfield Country Club events with prize whist. Dr J A Chapman lectures at First Methodist on Alaska with free admission at 7 30.
The tale recounts Felix Armand cure of St. Martin-Lys who forged a mountain road through Gorge de Pierre-Lys to aid his poverty stricken village. After years of toil a tunnel named Le Trou du Cure emerged in 1781 and the cure, lauded by Napoleon, refused to abandon his flock despite upheavals. The piece blends legends with a brief moral vignette on dew gathering and quaint quips from daily life and jokes.
Curious beliefs about dew trace its origin to angels and souls in purgatory shed for human sins. Dew supposedly cures eye diseases, freckles, baldness, cramps, wounds, rheumatism, and burns, while serving as a beauty wash. A tale says licking morning dew reveals birds’ language, and another notes witches in minimal clothing.
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