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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1906
Page
6
An old Welsh rural tradition shows the bidder traveling door to door with a long flagged pole, reciting a formal song. The bidder invites households to contribute money and food, promising hospitality and affordable drink, victuals, and seating, with the couple and servants addressed in order.
A schoolteacher marries a wealthy widower and faces a household with servants. On the first morning, the cook asks how to prepare beef. The bride replies calmly that Mary may cook it her way today and try hers another time, leaving the cook with a favorable impression.
The Charleston News and Courier reports farmers follow moon phases for planting corn and other crops. Some avoid moonlight nights to prevent tall stalks with short ears, while others plant regardless. Folk practices include tossing cobs in running water to prevent firing and scattering pinder hulls on paths to aid future crops, with green butter bean bulls tossed in roads after shelling to ensure a good next season.
A reader notes 4 000 manuscript spellings of Shakespeare for the title character. Among examples cited are Shak spere Shaxpere Shakspire Shaxper and Shakespere with commentary that twenty two forms are considered correct by Shakespeare's own scribal practice.
A writer calls Turks rare sleepers and notes in village life they drop into sleep at the slightest provocation. The account claims they wake briefly for trivial reasons and can sleep again immediately, even in cramped quarters.
A group of brokers discuss Russell Sage’s wealth when one asks when a man has enough money. Sage replies with a quip about needing ten thousand dollars more, then he moves on after pausing at an apple stand.
A thrift-minded husband warns his wife about her spending as she counters with wit about needing to raise the wind. The exchange captures a playful domestic skirmish over money and hustle.
A new act at the theater allegedly drew crowds then collapsed to only about ten attendees in one week, according to the manager. The exchange notes the dramatic drop from 800 to a handful of patrons.
A doctor enters and asks who has waited longest. Shears replies she has waited six months and still has not been paid for the last suit, revealing a dispute over payment.
The conversation centers on choosing a college for a son. Nodd muses aloud about the decision while Todd asks about the boy’s age. Nodd notes the boy has been nearly three weeks old, underscoring uncertainty in timing and selection.
The piece recalls Joseph and Mary fleeing Herod, the Virgin’s milk whitening chalky stone, and St. Jerome retreating from Rome. It highlights a western plateau with terebinths where Hebrews offered sacrifices, calling Bethlehem nearly as it was in David’s days, a place for contemplation.
A scientist notes that butterwort leaves in a strainer with fresh milk coagulate it and impart a delicious flavor. Yellow bedstraw and garden artichoke flowers also coagulate milk. Vegetable renets offer safer hygienic alternatives to animal rennet as sometimes prepared.
Herodotus recounts the Argive brothers Cleobis and Biton who drew their mother to a temple with oxen and died in the shade. Delphi housed statues of the pair, and Homelle found near Delphi two nearly identical archaic statues of Polymedes, suggesting the tale's authenticity and the originals' preservation.
A tobacconist describes how pipe tobacco can burn the tongue if packed too loosely or too tightly. He notes fast burning tobacco or incorrect packing causes minute sparks through the stem and mouth irritation, as reported by the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The passage explains an elephant uses its trunk as nose and hand for drinking water, drawing water to pour into its mouth. It notes a heat relief habit where the animal squirts water over its back and sides about every five minutes in sun. The text also includes a vaudeville joke about a graduate who starved practicing law before balancing a barrel for fame.
A Pearson's Weekly remark notes a father's observation that children imitate invented sounds more easily than real words. He contrasts saying cat with his child uttering tat and praises the rapid acquisition of a made up term oobijoobie. The piece reflects colorful early 20th century views on language development.
The earliest known use of the line evokes Ralph Venning's Or thodoxe Paradoxes with the idea that beauty fades, noting beauty as skin deep and a sunne blast defaceth it.
A fragment notes the belief that a person may die from sleep deprivation in ten days. It also mentions Egbert praising the life of his baby, calling it miraculous that the child remains alive.
A reflection on gratitude noting that a poor man’s generosity should be as real if he becomes wealthy, implying enduring character beyond material change. The aphorism challenges assumptions about generosity changing with wealth.
The piece recalls bygone stage practices and voices from past actors. It notes how elocution and audience tastes have shifted, citing tricks like soap in the mouth and foam as relics of earlier performances. Richard Mansfield is referenced.
In western Iowa frontier days a district council tested a woman's fitness to teach. The committeeman, unsure how to ask, asked her to spell the alphabet backwards. Miss Burden complied, and he approved her certificate with a misspelled flourish, "Fully profeeshunt."
The largest stamp forgery on record swindled European collectors in 1889. A fake King Marie I of Sedang announced from Paris caused stamps marked Sedang to flood the market. Sets bearing three half moons sold for 1,000 francs each before authorities revealed the ruse and the stamps were worthless.
The note argues against common word confusions such as liable for likely and unraveling a mystery. It explains proper usage for words like ravel mutual friend and highlights how slight changes in phrasing alter meaning.
After an all night gathering with friends a husband comes home around 5 am to find his wife in the dining room showing signs of a troubled night. She confronts him while he admits fault and notes the morning is pleasant. Neither slept.
The item notes the phrase Real Simon Pure as used for a Pennsylvania Quaker in Mrs Centlivre's A Bold Stroke For a Wife staged at Drury Lane in February 1718 where Colonel Feignwell impersonates Simon to woo a Bristol heiress Miss Lovely, then the real Simon Pure appears. It adds a Weather Prophet quip about predicting weather and dates.
The passage reflects on how great ideas emerge when needed, spreading as world ignorance recedes. It contrasts the wise who move from error to truth with fools who cling to error, attributing quotes to A Phelps and Rrekert.
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