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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1907
Page
4
A missionary reports a native meeting where poor congregants raise money for a cause with inventive schemes. Participants paid to sit at tables, tea dowries, and fines to leave or sit, gathering funds as a lively, self organized effort.
The sacred codfish, a wood carved relic by Captain John Welch dating to 1747, hangs in the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a historic emblem. The article recounts Welch’s artistry, its colonial origins, and the codfish’s long-standing role in state deliberations. It also includes a vignette about Harold Frederick recognizing Cecil Rhodes only by his silence.
A St. Louis collector laments modern binding and paper quality versus 300 year old volumes. He notes old tanning and linen rag paper, longer curing and slower leather prep produced durable results, while current leather binding and machine made paper are poorer despite improvements in some methods.
A curio of quotations from Thales the Greek sage, including “Know thyself” and “Time is the wisest thing,” plus brief anecdotes about Dr. Story and a London note from the Houston Post and Washington Star dialogs. The piece juxtaposes ancient wisdom with humorous streetwise anecdotes from newspaper pages.
A narrator recalls a chance moment triggered by a line from a book, prompting an overheard remark about the burial place of the Murrays of Glendhubreac. He discovers the quoted surname matches a man named Bartholomew, revealing fate’s playful nudge as Bartholomew is an uncommon Scottish name.
A prominent New Yorker at his club orders eleven oysters twice, noting the usual dozen. The Irish waiter jokes that the guest would not want to risk being thirteen at table, offering a humorous take on superstition and dietary counts.
A collage of brief quips and fables about elephants sleep laziness confinement and a pun filled exchange between a girl and a boy about a bank loan. The snippets feature humor on truth sleep behavior and relationships with sharp punchlines and playful wordplay.
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