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Newspaper
Chipley Banner
Location
Chipley, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1903
Page
5
A brief humorous piece contrasts two work styles. The industrious man works steadily for hours while the executive notices progress, leaving when work is going well. If problems arise, the executive quits to avoid harming his reputation.
A medical specialist known for daily note keeping attends his father’s funeral as chief mourner. After the service he opens his notebook and carefully erases the entry Mem. Bury father, a cautionary tale about rigid habits.
A humorous exchange questions the meaning of eclaw heard as a boast of a party dining success. The retort reveals eclaw as the dessert chocolate eclaw, noting the spelling and pronunciation play.
A town and country quip recounts a landlady and boarder trading a humorous line about two chickens in soup. The exchange ends with reassurance that no harm was done and no one would suspect the incident.
A renowned St Louis chemist introduces a pyro chemical process for aluminum making. The method uses any clay at digging and hauling costs, cutting metal cost by more than half. A St Louis company is formed to manufacture aluminum by the new process.
An Arkansas hunter hides in a hollow log after rain traps him inside. He recalls misdeeds including cheating a widow, stealing a cow, and burning a neighbor’s field, but none free him until he admits he owes his home paper four years of subscription, then he exits.
The Banner announces daily office hours from 7:30 p m to 3 p m with Sunday exceptions. Mail curb times: westbound closes 6:30 p m, Vernon mail arrives 10 a m leaves 12 m. Orange Hill Bayhead and St Andrews mail arrives 6 p m leaves 8 a m daily except Sunday. Sunday hours 9 to 11:30 a m and 5:30 to 7:15 p m. Money orders issued during open hours except Sundays. J B Alley P M.
The notice lists annual subscription prices for several publications including BaxteR and Semi-weekly Atlanta Journal at 1.75, Banner and Thrice weekly New York World at 1.65, BANNER and Semi-weekly Times Union and Citizen at 1.50, and Home and Farm at 1.50 per year.
A sequence of aphorisms on virtue, courage, judgment, and society cites self control and conscience. It muses on fate, happiness, political wit, marriage, morality, and the human condition with pointed, ironic commentary.
A collection of humorous maxims on friendship ambition and life in a dated voice. Wry lines poke at vanity prosperity and aging while praising practical cleverness and shared fortune. A playful peek at doyenne humor and social observation from a bygone era.
A northern village chapel relied on a visiting clergyman. On a wet Sunday only one parishioner, the fly driver, attended. The amused preacher learned after the forty minute sermon that the sole listener had paid overtime for the ride.
Sir Richard Owen identified a bear bone as a pig thigh bone after Lord John Russell sent the specimen. Lord John later revealed President Buchanan had sent from America a “ghosce bear's ham” for the English statesman, enjoyed at breakfast, until suspicion prompted further testing.
In Robert Chambers memoirs a Peebles native, after a rise in fortune, visits Paris and returns to the town. The locals crowd him and, after listening, declare Paris a wonderful place but Peebles remains the place for pleasure.
Mrs Oldcastle asks a question about remedies for seasickness. The reply notes Josiah carried a bottle or two of it, but none of those remedies help when seasick. The Chicago Record-Herald quote presents a light humorous exchange about travel ailments.
A dialogue from the Philadelphia Ledger contrasts pride in Englishness with a Yankee retort that it proves little, as one remarks that the Englishman thinks he knows it all while the other agrees the claim rarely helps.
The snippet recalls a Brooklyn Life exchange about marriage expectations. A daughter notes her father was not as opposed to the match as anticipated, while the suitor laments his parent’s shift toward indifference to formal approval.
The brief exchange suggests a customer praising a steak sent yesterday as both good and durable, while the response confirms satisfaction with the quality. No other facts or names are provided.
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