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Newspaper
Clinton Plaindealer
Location
Clinton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1908
Page
4
A Philadelphia landlord adapts a loft over a store after a prospective tenant requests stair hinges and a lowering corded escape. The tenant lowers the steps for whistleing friends, while others remain ignored as creditors. The landlord seeks an explanation as hinges continue to function.
A 1905 census shows Icelanders average 61.8 years, nearly double the life expectancy noted a generation earlier. Sweden and Norway show shorter lifespans at about 50 years and 49.94 years, while Iceland enjoys fewer shocks from earthquakes and steady mail steamship arrivals from Leith to Reykjavik.
A Chicago man recalls a resident who failed repeatedly before striking it rich with a wheel invention. Soon his wife and two daughters toured daily in a motor car, their park ride marked by a daughter’s witty demand to “roll back” and stop the water boiling over.
The article argues Switzerland is the oldest surviving republic but notes two premodern relics, San Marino on Mount Titano and Andorra in the Pyrenees, as contenders for the oldest republics. Neither has a fixed founding date, with San Marino possibly dating before the middle ages.
A druggist laments customers using his shop as a public channel for petty favors. He recalls a rain day request from an unknown woman three blocks away asking for two two-cent postage stamps.
A writer argues households neglect writing supplies while pantry staples like sugar salt and soap are prioritized. The issue is not cost but lack of thought causing insufficient pens stamps and envelopes on hand.
A Cleveland man cited a Galion restaurant sign he saw, claiming it effectively upholds the dignity of the establishment. The proprietor, described as a large man around 200 pounds, is portrayed as a formidable figure. The sign reads: If You Want to Know Who Runs This Place Just Start Something.
A humorous dog poem about a bull dog named Bumpski who loves bones, sleeps by the fireplace, and leaves warm prints on the bed. The speaker recounts punishing the dog for sleeping on the bed, the dog’s antics, and ends with a playful warning of a hat if disbelief is shown.
A collection of wry quips and anecdotes about manners, engagements, luck, and social foibles. Jokes touch on gloves and rings, shining shoes, Thanksgiving mishaps, aging bankers, stale eggs, congressmen in parades, rummage sales, truth telling, and office routines with a playful moral.
The clippings evoke autumn football energy as college players prepare, with vivid voices from the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and St. Louis Times describing the field, the crowd, and an eager player eyeing victory. A lively mood of preparation and competition runs through the excerpts.
Composite quips from several papers joke about "false teeth" in the market, eggs stored in cold storage, a looming war with Japan, and thick shelled hickory nuts, each credited to a different city paper with humorous attributions.
A Texas newspaper pointer advises users of clean linen to leave money at home to ensure payment is kept with the laundry service. It warns that the shop may forget to return the laundry if payment is not provided.
In a sunlit November morning at Green Gables the Sloane family plans a quiet Thanksgiving. Uncle Chester reveals Aunt Addie’s famous apple tarts may come from Miss Adelaide Payson, a hostess and relative, enabling a double wedding when Olney and Rosa Rand miss dinner. The scene blends pastry lore with family intrigue as guests arrive.
Dr Vernon Paul, a young English medical man, was killed instantly in a shooting accident after a dog jumped into a motor car and touched a loaded gun left in the vehicle. The bullet passed through the left lung as he prepared to return from a rabbit shoot.
A Parisian metallurgical engineer claims a perfected process to weld copper to steel wire creating a noncorrosive coating. The invention offers high tensile strength and elasticity with reduced surface exposure to wind and sleet, enabling longer pole spans for power lines.
Notice of two estate sales in Vermillion County Indiana. First a quiet title suit in Vermillion Circuit Court with defendants listed and a March 16 1908 trial date in Newport. Second an administrator sale of Joseph S Clark estate at Clinton Hazel Bluff on January 31 1908 with livestock hay grain and farm implements offered at public auction.
A brief note mentions a horse blanket purchase for a horse, with the line quoted as a tag at Harlan and Higgins. The item implies care for a horse and a small local shopping moment.
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