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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1911
Page
2
A column of light items and wry observations ranges from Turkey buying typewriters to pale jokes about skirts, baseball mishaps, startling headlines, and everyday oddities. It notes Vassar’s anniversary, rising candy poison fears, taxes in Chicago, and a Brooklyn kiss judgment with witty asides.
A Kansas man asks Congress to accept postage stamps instead of seeds and remarks on food energy. Wu Ting Fang may return to the U S this year. An Illinois judge cracks on a mule’s braying. Few Chicago seniors wish to wed, and English peers fill Westminster Abbey. Americans would pay to attend an overflow coronation gathering.
Myrtle T. Trons explains simple crafts to imitate pets using common foods. A raisin turtle is formed with four cloves as legs and one as a head, pulled by a thread, while a frog uses greenish paper on a shell and moves with the slightest breath.
The essay argues animals show preferences, noting horses despise camels while liking dogs. It suggests the horse’s ideals of grace and strength shape aversion to the awkward camel. It contrasts the bear and camel, praising dogs for companionship and shared love of sport with horses.
In tropical South America and many Pacific islands the jacana performs a famed love dance. Male jacanas spread wings and display colorful plumage to court preferred females during the mating season. The display aims to win admiration from attentive females.
Little Ford tells his father about a peculiar stone found in the backyard. He describes it as roughly the size of a good sized small apple in playful slang.
A six year old boy Bobby is shown collecting items from A to Z in his pocket as guardians note. The poem lists apples balls cake donkeys eggs feathers grasshoppers handkerchief plaster head and more, ending with Thor as Pappy and Ware as father. Carolyn Wells authored the piece in Little Folks.
A curious magic square is presented where the horizontal vertical diagonal sums are given as 369 36 and 19 across a 49 5 0 60 grid. The piece notes the unusual sums and invites inspection of the arrangement.
A brief numeric sequence appears as an isolated item in the page, with no surrounding context to indicate a news event or identifiable entities. The fragment offers only digits and spaces, lacking names, places, dates, or actionable information.
A puzzling magic square variant places all odd numbers inside the inserted diagonal squares while even numbers occupy the remaining cells. The construction highlights a peculiar distribution of parity along the diagonals.
An oral reminiscence recounts Milton resident George Barry recalling marches to Gettysburg and Spotsylvania, living through harsh campaign conditions, raids, and a court martial for a shot fired during a river-bathing incident, ending with a reprieve and no further deaths from bathing.
The Benson collection from Brooklyn yielded strong prices with a Katana tetradrachm selling for 3500 dollars, an Amphipolis tetradrachm at about 1750, and a Terina stater fetching 1500 dollars, all reflecting steep gains from original costs.
At a Massachusetts county fair a prize of 25 dollars was offered for the pony race. Nine boys and one girl entered, and the girl finished far ahead causing some boys to ride off in disgust. The event sparks hopes of a day when a girl can beat a boy in foot races.
Specially arranged for this paper the lesson text Hosea 14 analyzes Israelite backsliding and God’s promise of forgiveness. It contrasts three redeemer images and urges repentance with words and action, urging individuals to quit meanness and seek mercy before the lamp of mercy goes out.
Poem reflects on hardy garden plants like sweet williams and hollyhocks that endure winter and return each season with quiet resilience. It contrasts common perennials with rare exotics, praising steadfast beauty and steady trust of familiar blooms.
The magazine editor on his deathbed declares he never printed a football story in November or articles on the scientific side of baseball in May. He asserts consistency in his editorial direction and a clear conscience, citing poems and suffrage pieces as examples of his stance. A staff member then reveals proofs for a pending piece on Long Distance Signaling In Baseball and airplane utility in the sport.
A fragmentary line has a Roman matron declaring her jewels are her children while a statistics committee departs the palace. The chairman comments that such an exhibit may bolster arguments on race death by own action.
The bailiff asks Mr Spuddsgott if he can testify tomorrow in the umbrella theft case. Mr Spuddsgott considers the request and says it would be convenient to go to the courthouse to swear off his taxes.
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