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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1907
Page
4
A Japanese college girl claims Japan has no domestic animals and jokes that cows deer pigs are unnecessary for daily life. She contrasts such animals with local customs and notes chickens are kept but other animals are scarce or unwanted.
The article notes beaver abundance and trapping along the Elk River, with many pelts shipped to Praawisea and others to Europe. It mentions Geocee H. Hower of Veoceeser Phil and season activities, describing trappers moving skins quickly as winter quarters form.
Read about the many components of a violin listing parts such as bridge peg box sound post and fingerboard. It notes woods including maple pine and ebony used for different components and outlines the instrument structure.
Military epigrams collected by Philip Reade of the Twenty third Vaulted States infantry present thoughts on marksmanship and the soldier’s craft. The lines emphasize precision, learning from misses, and mixing brains with powder to improve shooters.
Mrs. Kenward, appointed postmistress at the Wivelsfield post office in 1846, celebrated her 88th birthday. She tends her duties, reads extensively, and claims to be the country’s oldest postmistress. Her father farmed at Speldhurst. She hopes to reach a centenarian age and die in harness.
A judge questions a witness who insists he has stood on the stand for two hours telling the truth though the judge notes the witness looks well. The exchange highlights courtroom strain as testimony continues.
The passage compares human variability to a Protean creature noting rapid shifts in mood and health. It cites Job and a Spanish line from Lals de Granada, highlighting how a person can move from joy to sorrow, confidence to doubt, and contentment to discontent in short spans.
The era's discussion notes that rural populations avoid meat and baths, yet live long. It quotes a reply from a laborer claiming constant sweating at work suffices for cleanliness, amid observations about diet cost and vitality contrasting with modern expectations.
A Ladies World vegetable and meat dish combines rice cooked in stock pressed into a buttered ring mold, then inverted. Reheat bite sized chicken in tomato puree with browned onion and green pepper, spiced hot with salt pepper and butter. Garnish with parsley.
A French physician Dr Lauder claims medical care given at night yields better results than daytime dosing. He notes the nocturnal fasting state increases absorption and slows elimination, helping illnesses respond where day treatment may fail.
Ethel tries to train a cat to stand and to fetch a dog but gets scratched both times. She declares to her mother that people are “the same kind of a cat” as yesterday, leading to a sharp reprimand and renewed effort the next day.
A golfer explains a rustic was struck in the eye by a wayward ball at St Andrews Scotland. The man chased the golfer and shouted that the incident would cost five to six pounds. The golfer says he shouted fore but the rustic did not hear and offers to settle for four.
A London Express item presents a mangled classroom exchange where a teacher demands the square of the hypotenuse, and a boy replies the result equals a beating. The dialogue underscores punitive discipline and mathematical quip in a stark tone.
A New York Press item portrays a restaurant patron pleading for a safer choice to avoid invalidating his life insurance policy. The exchange highlights risk awareness and moral tension in a dining scenario.
A concise reflection attributed to Gray discusses how friendships shape character. It emphasizes that the people we associate with influence our virtues or faults, suggesting moral judgment follows social ties. The observation frames friendship as a key factor in personal development.
Raymond Lee Ditmars of the New York Zoological Society documented a Mexican horned lizard producing a jet of blood from its eyes during a measurement experiment. The event lasted about one and a half seconds, with 103 blood splatter spots noted on a wall and floor four feet away.
A vivid piece explores pay car culture on railroads with coin racks, revolvers, and a watchful secret service presence. It contrasts the opulence of paymaster sessions with the disciplined danger of the era, ending with a romantic winter verse about love and warmth at home.
M Bronnain explains in La Nature that wave power combines dynamic orbital motion and static gravity effects, each contributing half the total. When water hits a wall a shock occurs, strongest at the surface and fading with depth, with jets sometimes reaching great heights at impact.
In a brief London Tit Bits humorous vignette, Mr System misses an umbrella during a rainy moment as Shippen Clark jokes about keeping an extra umbrella at work and at home to cover all emergencies. The exchange reveals a lighthearted office banter about preparedness.
A humorous exchange delivers a plea for brave, cheerful departure amid doubts about returning home. Mr Easy-Cheer and Mr Peck debate going down with lighthearted resolve, fearing marital consequences if they fail to return.
In a characterful monologue the speaker extols a rural idyll of broad fields sleek horses and quiet mornings. He longs for farm work planting seeds harvesting birds and returning home to dinner coats and harpsichord evenings with neighbors. He rejects city life and cherishes a close-to-God, undefiled rural existence.
A Kansas youth, fastidious about laundry, mailed two notes to the wrong recipients. The washerwoman received an invitation to a ride, while the sweetheart read an angry message about shirt bosoms and vowed never to speak again.
Brown's Chapel correspondence reports the grand wedding of Miss May Powell to Russell Duncan last Sunday. Rev Coffelt officiated as the road filled with rigs. E F Hudson and wife attended and joined in the reception as described in the Seqau ehee News item.
A notice announces a sale offering credit of ten percent on sums over five dollars, with a purchaser giving an approved security note. Interest at six percent from the date of purchase, four and a half percent per month for cash. Sale begins at ten o’clock on a specified date.
At the eve of Mp and Aes, the marriage of Mr Win Rahitinaun of Becutar HL and Miss Irene Goodwin of this city occurred. Rev Cl Fowler, pastor of the Presbyterian church, officiated. The couple begin their life together with many friends’ best wishes.
Notice to stockholders of Clinton Canning Company to meet in Canton Canton on May 28 for election of directors to consider officers and other business. All stockholders urged to attend. G. Wo. Weeps president and O. Bistiow secretary.
Devt Danhkip his wife and two sons Kenneth and William of Nokomis U L attend the funeral service for Edward Dunlap.
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