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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1908
Page
2
A poem from Texas Siftings describes a speaker haunted by a guiding figure in a watch face. The verses ask if the loved one who comforted in life remains near in spirit and lights the path toward brighter realms, urging remembrance beyond death.
Tommy alone at home feeds the tiger from the pantry and pump then guides the animal to town after a hunting party. A dark man helps, and the tiger is loaded into a wagon cage. The man rewards Tommy with money and show tickets, and the family prepares for a night out.
Paris and London lead the trend as New York follows. Gamblers and race-track touts are noted for bold attire with perpendicular stripes. A London influenced fashion test includes bets on wearing horizontal stripes in Broadway strolls within two months.
A nostalgic column mixes home crafts with legal and financial vignettes. It outlines producing an autograph cookbook from friends' recipes, then pivots to court cases, bank trouble involving Archie Tisdelle, a Dakotan oratorical winner, and a postmaster general successor, all in brisk, era-typical prose.
A fragmentary dialogue quotes a young man and friend debating rooms and politics. The loosely connected text references a joke about a four table, a table of waits and measures, and mentions Chicago News and Catholic Standard and Times in a garbled exchange.
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