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Newspaper
Chariton Patriot
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
3
Colonel Calliper recalls a tale from New York Sun about two jewelers in a small town. One kept a clock in his window, which drew trust until it stopped for windings, shifting favor to the other. The town grows into a city and the clockmaker prospers while the windless clock man declines.
The Chicago Record cites Don M. Dickinson's claim about wine drinking among public men as exaggerated. It notes some leaders like McKinley Frye abstain from wine, while others such as Platt Gorman Long Hill Croker and many more reportedly neither smoke nor drink.
A Detroit Free Press snippet notes a special agent of the Indian bureau is a woman earning $8 a day. Mrs. Wintergreen remarks the salary implies high sales, while Mr. Wintergreen questions demand for such a bureau.
A reflection on daily manners and small courtesies shaping social charm and character, suggesting consistent considerate behavior outvalues display of talent. The note emphasizes that habitual kindness and courtesy elevate personal character beyond notable achievements.
A persistent canvasser meets Major Crofoot who touts a grand scheme the Great American Dietary Sausage Company capitalized at five million dollars. The major seduces the man with promises of stock, salaries, and vast profits while pressuring for a quick cash investment of three to five dollars before the book sale can proceed. The scene ends with the canvasser leaving poorer but wiser.
An anecdote shows science rewards correction. A college president burned out his manuscript and admitted his theory was wrong. Another tale tells a geologist who hid a stone roll to protect a flawed theory but confessed it only after questioning.
A San Francisco Argonaut item recalls Henry Fielding’s reply to Lord Denbigh about spelling his surname Feilding. The anecdote notes Fielding’s branch first learned to spell. The piece adds brief facts on female left arm strength, equal bilateral strength in women versus men, and the time birds take to mature plumage.
A Bolivian planter famed for roulette exploits loses all at a deadly table. He declares ruin after a spin lands red, dies by his own hand, and leaves a silver service and a private journal to a trusted friend. The tale ends with a tragic fallout and a note on his exact gambling senses.
A street exchange cited by the Indianapolis Press questions civic responsibility when one man refuses to vote, arguing his nonparticipation absolves him of blame for elected officials' actions. The taller man argues the opposite, insisting the right to vote carries duty, not exemption.
Coronach was the funeral dirge used by Irish and Scottish highlanders. The tune is now disused in Scotland but remains commonly known as the keen in Ireland.
A Washington woman advertised for a colored maid and interviewed a mulatto applicant who claimed to dust. The woman asked about cooking washing ironing and sweeping, but the applicant refused each task claiming she did not do them. Her final claim was that she only dusts.
A Texas anecdote recalls a famed dead statesman walking a Dallas street when an elderly Black man once in his service asked for fifty cents. The exchange ends with the old man receiving a dollar and praising the man’s generous heart and faith.
The hog’s transformation under civilization is rapid and dramatic. Three generations of running wild restore tusks to full size and strength, making a year old hog formidable and a five year old boar deadly. Wild boars are ill tempered and seek revenge by tripping large trees when defeated.
An Irish traveler named Pat in Lordon meets two Englishmen who try a prank. Pat responds with a quick copper offering, explaining that in old Ireland when the father dies one gives to the poor orphans.
In a London Tit-Bits snippet, an amused uncle returns to Tommy's Lunch asking what to pay as the waitress lists buns sponge cakes sandwiches jelly tarts. Tommy replies he is very thirsty while not ill, creating a humorous scene between the pair.
A comical tale from England features a shortsighted nobleman on a railroad who asks a stout woman to move so he can place his bundle of rags in the rack. He then grabs the woman by the waist before realizing his error, causing astonishment.
A fragment from Chicago Past questions love and reason with a witty exchange between a sweet young woman and an old bachelor. The piece ends with a quip about insanity and a sensational medical ad for Dr Hobbs Sparagus Pills praised as a cure for kidneys.
Notice to creditors and heirs that on May 19 1800 the District Court of Iowa Lucas County appointed R E Doucwass executrix of the estate of D H Douglass deceased. Creditors must present claims authenticated to the court for allowance. all due payments to the executrix. Dated May 19 1900.
By virtue of special execution out of Lucas County District Court Iowe issued to George E B Deming against Ann A McCoy et al the following lots in Russell Iowa are levied and will be sold to satisfy the judgment at 10 oclock a m June 30 1900 in front of the courthouse door Chariton with Manning as Sheriff and Frank F Manning as deputy.
LA FERME 21944 is a brown 16 hand stallion weighing about 1200 pounds with a 2:28 pacing record and 2:14 trotting time. Sired by Garnet Wilkes. dam Daisy Wil son by Lucknow Jr with multiple notable descendants including Marion Wilkes and Duroc Wilkes. Claimed as Lucas county's fastest stallion and among Iowa’s quickest double gaited horses. Terms 8 to insure more in foal.
French draft stud Seducteur weighs over 2000 pounds and is billed as a premier sire with first premiums and sweepstakes wins at Wayne County Fair. Imported by Singmaster & Sons from Calvados France, he is described as heavy built with fine bone and action. The breeding stock, including two young jacks, will stand at Lucas County Fair Grounds in 1900 under James A. McMurry, owner.
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