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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1909
Page
4
The article notes the Koasath use a six foot cane blowgun for hunting birds and small game, with eight inch darts wrapped in thistle down. It also describes moss weaving into blankets, moss yarn spun on a frame, and traditional items such as pottery vessels, a Cypress knee drum, beadwork, baskets, and coin-made ornaments observed by M. R. Harrington.
The University of Vienna receives 600 000 kronen from the Vienna Academy of Sciences to establish a Radium Institute. Sir William Ramsay is honored with a fraction of radium to continue experiments on transmutation toward helium and other elements. One gramme of radium stores energy equal to one horsepower for 15 days and releases it extremely slowly, requiring about 50 000 years to exhaust itself.
A Nassau Street tailor moving to Fifth Avenue adopted Roman numerals on his cards and ads prompting surprise. The New York Times notes Fifth Avenue businesses favor the style though other avenues have not widely followed.
The article recalls William Bayard Hale described as caustic and popular in banking circles. A bank banquet anecdote features Hale recounting a Christmas game where a cashier or president steals funds to be found by detectives, with a forfeit upon capture.
An article recounts European arrivals like C Oliver Iselin facing duty payments refused for checks. Officials insist on currency, prompting a $1,750 loan from Harvey Biglin to cover duties while a rule remains in force.
A compact survey of U S presidents death causes listing Washington as acute laryngitis Adams Madison Monroe chronic old age Jefferson chronic diarrhea John Quincy Adams paralysis Jackson dropsy Van Buren throat and limb catarrh Harrison pleurisy Tyler death not given Polk cholera Taylor cholera morbus with severe cold Fillmore paralysis Pierce dropsy Buchanan rheumatic gout Lincoln Garfield McKinley assassinated Johnson paralysis Grant cancer at the root of the tongue Hayes neuralgia of the heart Arthur heart trouble Benjamin Harrison pneumonia Grover Cleveland heart failure after a compilation of diseases.
A country cousin at dinner with his city relative is taken to a show and a bar afterward. The city cousin urges another drink despite the visitor’s protest, declaring with a gleeful and wicked resolve that he will go the whole hog and have a second beer.
University of Tennessee Knoxville offers courses in law and sciences as well as civil mechanical electrical and mining bay s. New buildings and equipment enlarge faculty with pine laboratories and farms. Tuition free for Tennessee students, traveling expenses paid by the state, living expenses moderate, loans available. Self help lessons begin September 15. For information contact Brown Ayres, President.
An engineer who had recently arrived from Mexico told a tale about a bossy man with limited Spanish. He tried to command peons on a railway, using mixed words like para and via. The workers misunderstood, debated meanings, and kept throwing stones in various directions, politely replying si senor each time.
The passage portrays Jimmy Falows as town hub and informal authority. Through phone networks and doorfront presence he channels information on farmers, sewing groups, doctors, services, and social matters. He acts as coroner, wharf master, undertaker, and notary, with only steamboat arrivals eluding his reach.
English novels face cultural gaps in China where romantic plots offend moral norms. Dickens translations entertain but do not deeply move readers. detective and adventure stories find warmer reception. Chinese readers miss pathos of heroes like David Copperfield and prefer more direct love plots. Dickens remains on steady sale despite cultural distance.
A Harper's Weekly excerpt notes a churchyard epitaph in Hagerstown Maryland. The fictitious inscription honors Mary F wife of Walter Jenkins who died December 20 1884 at age 70 years nine months and was faithful to Jacob Wineman Henry Snow Philip Harrow and Walter Jenkins.
A man who hawked twisted proverbs to cheap magazines was finally arrested. He overpowered bystanders, received new manacles, and exclaimed with a grin that fatters make jallbirds, while denying innocence and facing misdemeanor charges.
Hicks and Wicks exchange wry remarks about a man’s fortnight at Old Orchard while his wife retreats to the mountains. The jest hints the wife should tug at him to remind him of his marriage vows.
A quizzical exchange from a wartime newspaper features a boy asking why a nurse wears a band on her arm and a father questioning the necessity. The mother consoles her crying child as readers witness the tender, sometimes jarring realities of service and care in a fleet of clipped, candid lines.
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