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Newspaper
Cambridge Sentinel
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1907
Page
3
A young wife visits a grocer angry at soap that supposedly washes itself. The grocer reveals she bought cheese and half a pound of soap by mistake, explaining the soapy miscue led to the Welsh rarebit joke. A prize of HM was awarded to M. L. G. Anderson of Jennings, West Virginia.
A fragment from Lip Pincott's humor section includes a morbid verse by Thomas Bailey Aldrich about a bier and a late wife, followed by a Cleveland street incident where a street superintendent asks what to do with a dead dog and learns it was a savage disposition.
The passage argues there is no easy proof of virtue and that fortune punishes and tests us. By frequent use and exposure to danger, the body and mind grow tougher, enabling the soul to despise misfortune and endure hardship.
After coronation King Edward lay recovering from appendicitis when he called his grandchildren to his bedside. The youngsters whispered in awe as they spoke with him before being sent away. Prince Eddie asked to see the baby, showing the family’s hopeful interest.
Willie tells his father a dream where St Peter leads him to climb a chalk marked ladder to heaven. The punch line arrives when Willie says the father comes down for more chalk to write sins and the boy asks why, revealing the humor of the tale.
Benjamin H. Brewster of Philadelphia and former attorney general rode to the defense of the Pennsylvania Railroad in a bitter trial over franchise rights. In closing, an opposing lawyer denounced the railroad as a dark, devious outfit, likening its methods to the chief attorney and his henchman.
In a crowded courtroom Benjamin Brewster explains a boyhood accident that left him scarred. He recounts saving his sister from a fire while another suffered injuries and asserts he bears the scars without self pity or blame.
The pianist Mme Teresa Carreno married three times with Eugene d Albert as her third husband. In Berlin at the seventh or eighth Philharmonic concert she played a familiar piece and Otto Lessmann remarked she did not perform it as well as when she first played the Second Concerto of her third husband at the fourth Philharmonic.
A traveler returns from San Francisco amazed by the ruins and restoration. A sly stranger moves through the car offering a pocket-sized book titled The Right Word In the Right Place for 25 cents, preying on the man’s awe.
The excerpt argues that constant reading drains mental elasticity like a spring under pressure. It notes erudition quenches original thought and renders most men more stupid and less successful writers. It warns against filling every idle moment with books to avoid dulling creativity.
A mother listens as her son Jack Prindle proudly lists chores and manners. He claims to have avoided misdeeds all day and ends with I haven't forgotten a damn thing. Mrs. Prindle bursts into tears in front of guests.
A dialogue-driven dispute shows Merchant pressing Tony over debts to both the speaker and Mr. Knox. Tony proposes a plan to pay the merchant and express sympathy for Knox, claiming to have pondered the issue for weeks and offering a settlement approach.
A vivid portrait describes Sir Walter Scott enjoying laughter with radiant dignity. The text traces his laughter from a shy, wheezy spark to a full, restrained mirth that crowns his speech with emphatic, Scots-inflected cadence and a plaintive, buoyant cadence.
Tom Ochiltree, injured in a railroad accident, seeks damages. He walks with crutches months later and quips that his doctor says he can row, but his lawyer says he cannot.
Bertie idolizes Aunt Helen and Henry Strong while facing tension over duty and distance. A scare on the railroad track ends with Henry saving Bertie and Aunt Helen realizing her misgivings. The trio reconciles as Bertie sleeps peacefully, protected by both.
The bohemian sculptor Carpeau known for absentminded wit once lighted a pipe from a chandelier at Napoleon III and Eugenie. He mocked a patron by presenting a rough clay rock as Polyphemus crushing Acis, noting the Cyclops would not stay after such an act.
A report from the Sonth China Post describes a harsh sanity test in an undeveloped Laos region. Lunatics believed to be sane swim a river to prove soundness while the unlucky sink and are left to drift, with the village then isolating those deemed unfit.
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