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Newspaper
Buffalo Center Tribune
Location
Buffalo Center, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
7
In a Su chien port journal account a condemned man chose burial alive over the twenty nine torture. Elders and the murdered man’s father attended as his wife bound him and later removed bonds. A wheelbarrow delivered him to a prepared grave where earth was filled in sealing his fate.
A California listener recounts a cowboy who failed to ride an ostrich in his state. After an hour of mounting effort the bird seized the rider by the leg, threw him, and trampled him before three onlookers intervened to save the man. He questions natives in Africa and Australia riding ostriches.
The piece argues that middle-aged women are fading from life and fiction as modern culture favors youth. It notes heroines now stay in their forties or fifties, cites Balzac’s Femme de Trente Ans as outdated, and recalls Cleopatra at 40 and Diane de Poitiers in middle age as examples of ripened charm. It contrasts past and present age perceptions with mentions of Dejazet at 70.
The envelope, a simple device, is about a hundred years old. Brewes, a Brighton paper maker, patented envelopes in their modern form, yet general use did not emerge until around 1859. Previously letters were written on one side, folded, sealed, and addressed on the blank side.
The lessee of the tithes of New College Oxford once supplied a boar's head at Christmas garlanded with bay leaves. In the afternoon it was paraded to the mill field beside the churchyard where it was wrestled for and eaten by the victor and companions. The piece notes similar ancient charities and tenures.
An agent seeks the endorsement of the finest voting machine yet devised. The politician replies that the person who built the district party organization has the machine beat by a city block.
A terse dialogue features The Crank praising himself and warning against talking to it, while The Barber notes hair coming out on top. The exchange ends with a punchy, self-assured line about the struggle not to engage.
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