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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1910
Page
4
A jumble of lighthearted items mocks schools films dressmakers and fashion trends. A New York man is declared insane for bridge and a Wellesley girl expelled for marrying. A couple wed in an auto at 60 mph while aviation costumes and poets union news headline curiosities.
A patchwork column notes Kansas City banning fireworks and suggests July recommendations to buy Christmas gifts early. It cites aviators crossing the Delaware, a $3,000,000 Atlanta penitentiary, Europe craving American slang, and ponderings on fate, cabbage crops, and a Virginia juror. It mentions Panama canal gates, rag dolls, a misnamed man, and San Francisco’s large suburbs, ending with comments on English attitudes to American money.
A 1911 Sunday School lesson on Rehoboam and Jeroboam, detailing Solomon's death leading to Israel's split at Schechem. It contrasts Rehoboam's rash decisions, Egypt's invasion by Shishak, and the moral of choosing wise counsel over pride, urging personal character formation aligned with divine guidance.
A consumer chats with a new cashier at a cigar counter as he pays his dinner bill. She retorts that money is not meant to be hoarded, joking that coins would still need candles if so.
Charles H. Rosenberg from Bavaria arrived on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria with numerous lumps on his body. Immigration doctors misread them as medical, but he revealed the lumps contained money totaling $11,600. He planned to buy an Oregon apple orchard and was admitted to the United States.
A tale from the old south describes Miss Mattie hosting a distinguished guest. She sends Tillie the maid with water and a bath offer, and the guest, Mr. Firman, bursts into laughter at the bold, humorous message.
A humor piece notes a black tradesman named Ale Hall as a skilled whitewasher yet oddly hesitant about whitewashing a chicken house. The dialogue highlights language and social nuance in a humorous rural town setting.
Poem speaks of choosing contentment and optimism despite misfortune. It notes constant springs of happiness in human hearts and the sunny gleams the years reveal as age progresses. The limelight grows warmer as one grows older.
Fragmentary dialogue mentions Bogug and a potential real thing with no amounts paid or clear context. The text provides no identifiable events, dates, or institutions to anchor a full summary.
Readable lines show a short, informal money exchange with requests for aid and mentions of savings totaling 2,190 dollars over twenty years. The passage is incomplete and lacks clear participants or a formal event.
The scene at a vaudeville show features a black-face comedian receiving boisterous applause while Uncle Hiram notes the growing prominence of the colored race. A city man observes the performer as a self made negro, reflecting on rising visibility.
The Red Man reports that per capita wealth of Native Americans runs about 2150 dollars while white Americans average just over 1800. Indian lands boast oil timber and diverse resources. They own vast agricultural and range lands supporting hundreds of thousands of livestock and yielding substantial tribal revenue.
A chummy diner scene unfolds as a waiter and a young man exchange slang on egg orders. The man uses playful phrases like a brace of cackies and sunnysiders, while the waitress corrects him and notes the shift to plain English in restaurants.
The League of Politeness has been formed in Berlin to promote better manners. Founded by Fraulein Cecelle Meyer, inspired by a Rome organization, it adopts the motto Pro gentilezza and will award a talisman medal to deter discourteous language. Any polite person may join.
In the Gazette the council issues an order forbidding ordinary interments in the churchyard at St. Giles Stoke Pages Buckinghamshire, known as the rural rest place of Gray’s Elegy. The ruling designates the churchyard as closed to common burials.
A mother discusses her three children, noting the baby Edith is the sharpest. John, the oldest, says he knows why Edith learns fast saying it is because she has them and they didn’t have us.
A Georgia figure, former Governor Allen D. Candler, was famed for a quaint joke about quitting cigars. A Guineaville man recalls Candler switching to a pipe at year's start and sticking to it, joking he saved $208 by the change, yet wonders where the money is now.
The Christian Herald recounts Moslem Ramadan as the holy month when the Koran was revealed to men by Gabriel in sections. It notes Prophet Mohammed’s retreat to the cave of Hira for prayer and meditation as well as revelations to Abraham and Moses.
A patient describes two doctors in consultation last night. One advised one option while the other suggested a different approach. Rather than choose, they ultimately advised mixing the two treatments.
A Cumberland Gap bus climbs a steep hill as rear door bursts open repeatedly. Passengers tease the horse attached to the vehicle, with the driver warning to keep quiet so the mare does not overhear the disturbance. The anecdote portrays rustic humor and rural storytelling from Success Magazine.
The aging actress Sara Bernhardt jokes that her youth comes from hard work and divine aid and laments compliments as exaggeration. A bustling boulevard scene and a nurse anecdote about an automobile accident illustrate public fascination with danger and crowds.
A conciliatory man cautions against name calling while a vindictive respondent defends his words. The exchange centers on a remark about a man being worth 40 cents a pound, prompting reconsideration of insult and value.
A humorous exchange quotes Mr. Meekton on marriage as a sentimental observer asks about proposal nerves. He replies that he was not nervous but would have feared the next decade if he could foresee it.
In a dialogue, Mr. Sirius Barker argues for his daughter to study singing over art or literature. He claims art spoils canvas and paint and literature wastes paper, while singing only causes a temporary disturbance of the atmosphere.
Mrs Bossim asks about the first thought after the hotel alarm as Mr Bossim recalls the quake moment. He describes a vase striking his ear a chair spinning toward him and four or five books and a framed picture hitting him. The exchange ends with her lingering anger.
A new method colors glass by mineral pigments fused under intense heat to create a pebbled surface that softens light. The process brands each window pane separately molded and bent, then assembled in a metal frame for multi shade displays.
A narrator discusses conversations on a train from an industrial center. He notes young women in bright attire choosing doubles and sharing daguerreotypes while eating apples. He contrasts sweet voices with less musical ones and urges truthfulness in friendship.
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