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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1905
Page
4
London Answers suggests the expression may come from ducks reacting to electrical disturbances in storms, their quacks fading as if resigning to doom. The note draws a parallel to Shakespeare and the idea of a sinking deck, proposing a possible linguistic origin for the phrase.
A customer entered a drugstore and asked for morphine. The druggist refused without a prescription. The man asked why, stating he might kill himself. The druggist replied that if he looked like the customer, he would be tempted to.
From General Lee memoir excerpts Captain R E Lee reveals Lee's reluctance to fight kin and his choice to resign, hoping never to draw the sword. He sought private life with his family but stood ready to serve Virginia if needed.
Sir Henry Hawkins argues in his Reminiscences that circumstantial evidence is not a dangerous innovation but the mainstay of proving crimes. He notes eyewitnesses are rare in great murder cases and that such evidence speaks for itself without motives to deceive.
Anglers note color variation within turbots of the same stream. Herr Otto Gotthilf shows light reflected from surroundings affects the optic nerve, guiding color changes. When the optic nerve is severed, turbots lose this color-changing ability.
A London Review critique argues that quite should mean completely and is sometimes overextended to mean very or to a great extent. It notes the growing misuse of quite with nouns such as quite a panic and questions where adverb and adjective boundaries lie.
The Spanish orange region spans eastern and southern Catalonia Valencia Alicante Murcia Malaga and Seville. Some Valencia and Murcia areas see trees growing as forests with guano enriched soil, making Europe’s richest growing ground. A mature tree can yield 1500 to 1800 oranges per season, fruiting starts at six years and climbs until around twenty when decline begins.
The traditional anniversaries include cotton at year one and paper at year two. Leather is year three, wood year five, woolen year seven, tin year ten, silk and fine linen year twelve, crystal year fifteen, china year twenty, silver year twenty five, pearl year thirty, ruby year forty, golden year fifty, and the diamond milestone marks seventy five.
A Kennebec Journal snippet recalls a return from a busking bee. A girl in a gingham dress notes she had two red ears after her father caught a city man kissing her.
A humorous dialogue shows a father questioning a suitor’s industry in his calling while the daughter defends him saying he visits nightly for a month. The exchange lampoons courtship behavior with witty reproach and wit.
Cleveland Leader notes a quip about Jack Stone once being a lover when he had money to burn, followed by a punchline that the speaker fired him after his funds ran out. The brief exchange highlights social dynamics and humor in local print.
A Josh Billings aphorism notes that a reputation once broken may be repaired, but the world will always focus on the spot where the crack occurred, highlighting enduring scrutiny and caution in social judgment.
A taciturn barber notes a strange trait among customers: men with less hair pay more attention to it. He recalls a frequent client with a light fringe under his hat who demands careful trimming yet claims it is too long. The barber jokes about using another’s hair and the irony of bald men seeking lengthy styles.
A London Mail summary notes soot, a pure carbon powder formed by condensed hydrocarbon vapor in chimneys, can absorb foul gases and help combat disease near sewers and drains by absorbing harmful gas.
A reflective piece contrasts imagination unrestrained with imagination governed by prudence. It uses humorous examples of excess, such as a man with a cork leg wearing a rubber pedal attachment to ease pain, and a Scotsman who faints in heat on a stoveed church sunday.
A European method reportedly used in Holland for indolent paupers forces them to pump water in a cistern with a slow stream ensuring they stay submerged just enough to urge effort. Observers describe the practice as a deterrent against idleness among the able-bodied poor.
An exchange notes that wealth measured in millions is misleading. The Pueblo Chieftain argues the richest person is the individual who derives the greatest happiness from their possessions, a timeless truth highlighted in a modern context.
A playful exchange hints at an old family romance as Nellie Tomkins contemplates wording a goodbye line. The elder sister cautions about punctuation and emphasis while a father drops hints of a lengthy courtship.
W H Buffington offers Hyomei with a full refund if it fails to relieve catarrh of the nose throat and lungs. The outfit costs 1 dollar with extra bottles at 50 cents. Breathing the medicated air via the inhaler soothes irritation, kills germs, and enriches blood with ozone.
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