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Newspaper
Cheyenne Daily Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1907
Page
2
A street car conductor deals with an inspector over fare counts then offers a witty retort. A later joke features a man asking if automobile use can cause disease and a doctor humorously names a possible car related affliction.
A New York fire commissioner cites courage in a roll of merit plan while recounting a rookie’s comical refusal to risk life for a pension ink. A British volunteer’s plum pudding joke meets sergeant major scrutiny as a cement pudding quip. Pennsylvania treasurer candidate M. H. Stevenson notes political drinkers voting prohibitionist tickets.
An anecdote shows a prohibition stance voiced by a democrat while Lamont buys a season ticket and chats in a line of Albany magnates. The verse “The Learned Woman” lists a wife’s rapid study across stenography photography theology sociology and more, climaxing in phonetics and magnetics as she pursues diverse fields.
A light parlor page mixes holiday appetites with a playful Christmas poem about feasts and fattened plates. It notes turkey and regional favorites as festive symbols, then shifts to a brief note on snakes drawn to mowing machine noises in India, with cobras killed on a grass farm.
In a turret chamber high above the city a watcher describes Day dying on the Evening’s breast while the world below writhes in unrest. The speaker laments the chained laboring masses trapped in ceaseless struggle with little hope for sunshine or escape. The poem ends with Day dead in Night’s arms as the city’s gloom deepens.
Baden-Powell, president of the Aeronautical Society, told the Bradford Philosophical Society that reducing aircraft size could allow speeds of at least a hundred miles per hour and argued such craft would be as safe as motor cars in a general sense.
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