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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1913
Page
6
Hamlin and a companion battle to elude Arapaho pursuers and reach the river as a hidden gully offers a brief trail to safety. The scene describes arrests of danger, a wounded girl, and a tense search through the black night with rifles firing and quiet, cautious progress toward escape.
An reflective piece urges readers to live by virtue and to pursue meaningful deeds. It laments wasted years and fading memory, urging acts of kindness that endure beyond life. The author cites moral responsibility and the idea that character outshines worldly fame.
Aubrey Yeardsley, a boy guest at a dinner with Oscar Wilde, quips that Nero’s greatest religious act was lighting the first smile of Christianity. Wilde admits ignorance, then Yeardsley asserts Nero poured out Christians and set fire to them, sparking a grim joke.
The note recalls Granville Dorker production of Twelfth Night and suggests SIL in London halls once used in Shakespearean times. It mentions Elizabeth I opening a hall in 1676 and posits Shakespeare himself may have acted there. The Inn of Court and Gray’s Inn ball claim witness to a 1694 performance of A Comedy of Errors in the same period.
A string of riddles and puns with misspellings and playful word twists. Questions touch on commands for a crossing lady, dangers of a postman, statue fruit, religious king remarks, Neptune’s answer to dry seas, personal ownership, happiness in dictionaries, and jokes about butchers pawnbrokers and ships.
An eight year old boy named Donald sits through a long church prayer with folded hands and reverent expression. His mother is pleased and the boy remarks the moment stayed with him as he recalls counting his hand movements exactly 270 times.
An Ohio inventor claims a leg fitting device, jokingly called a boot, helps swimmers gain greater speed with less effort. The article notes the device wraps around the leg to reduce drag and increase propulsion.
In the electrical toy department a clever display demonstrates electric motors. Four small lamps sit before each motor with motor prices painted on the glass. A transformer keeps the lights burning. push buttons let the salesman run any motor and illuminate its lamp.
A Youngstown Telegraph misspells a classroom moment where a teacher asks pupils to name the senses. Johnnie loudly asserts he can see and smell, proving the lesson’s confusion and a candid student insight into perception.
A farmer cautions a young boy about an old man in the pasture calling him dangerous. The boy counters that the man isn’t as fierce as a city tyrant and asks if there are bets or fights around.
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