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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1913
Page
5
A fragmented transcript recalls a speaker praising the hustler archetype and deriding wasted effort. A classroom anecdote about a Cincinnati boy and Moses age joke follows, with tangential remarks on telephony and a figure loaning dollars to a business.
San Francisco January 31 Edison has a rival E H Amet of Berkeley who claims to have built a phonograph and motion picture device that records sound and film together. The system projects the film while reproducing the spoken words at the exact moment, synchronizing lip movements with the soundtrack and offering potential use at the Panama-Pacific Exposition including simultaneous cornerstone laying with speeches.
The article surveys West Virginia law on punishing repeat offenders with enhanced penalties, upholds vasectomy as constitutional, and cites State vs Feilen on sterilization. It also covers commercial use of college names, automobile liability for a minor driver, Indian country definitions, and miscellaneous legal anecdotes and want ads.
Imther Burbank laments winter shivers at the Riviera in Santa Rosa as a tale recalls a boarding house winter resort far north. A Kansas City packing firm sues for injuries with a witness who feigns ignorance, saying he has “sheared” and is not related to his plant foremen in a blunt courtroom moment.
A satirical anecdote recounts Kentucky judge J Campbell Flournoy touring coal lands with a native guide. They pass a homestead with seven children and a host of imagined traits, prompting a quip about the family and their prospects for institutional care, while noting state custody support.
Seated under a palm at his Miami villa Bryan argued that old men can be the best statesmen and quoted Metchnikoff. He said no man is too old to learn and no man too young to think he is too old to learn.
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