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Newspaper
Comet
Location
Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1909
Page
4
Sir Gilbert Parker recalls an Egyptian post where eggs and tinned meat sustained them. When eggs turned bad the officer ordered a fresh supply and had the merchant eat the contents to prove freshness, forcing him to swallow several foul eggs. The episode ends with both men served proper eggs thereafter.
Notice to Jake Jones and all interested parties that unless they appear by May 18 1909 and pay 333 28 county taxes plus interest and costs including this notice, their right to redeem will be barred and a deed will be issued to purchaser A E K Crockette. Witness dated March 5 1909.
A complaint about rents describing landlords as profiting from tenants. It labels rent as graft and urges readers to oppose paying market rates. Davis West Park Addition John L. Davis owner promotes 10 percent cash and 3.00 dollars monthly terms as a path to personal landlord status.
A reminiscence on dime novels inspiring outdoor virtue and wholesome adventure. The author recalls childhood reading and notes a crusade that diminished dime novels over twenty years, cited against city dens and dives per the New York Press. A separate anecdote follows with an itinerant asking for help after a fire, met with a quip about nerve.
A ten by ten foot bill board space facing Lafayette Square New Orleans has been given to the New Era club by Janine Garrick to aid the suffrage campaign. Each week the space will feature important facts about the movement. Dean's Regulats advertised with claims to regulate bowels and cure constipation at 25 cents a box.
In a Louisville Coutier Journal commentary the car is praised as a great institution. The piece notes humorously that one can sit up in it to greet a friend and crawl under it when a creditor appears.
The article describes Koasat Indians using a six foot cane blowgun with eight inch darts wrapped in thistle down for hunting small birds or squirrels. It notes Spanish mosas and weaving of moces, saddle blankets, and lists rare artifacts such as Cypress knee drums, beaded sashes, baskets, silver headbands, brooches, and otter ornaments collected by M. R. Harrington for the Southern Workman.
The University of Vienna through the Vienna Academy of Sciences receives a 600000 kronen anonymous donation to establish a Radium Institute. Sir William Ramsay is honored with a loan of radium fragments to continue his experiments as radium’s rarity keeps researchers scarce. A gramme of radium stores energy roughly equal to one horsepower for one day and lasts about 20 000 years.
A Nassau Street tailor moves to Fifth Avenue and sends new cards, triggering amused comments. Observers note Roman numerals, especially Vth Avenue, becoming popular in street names, ads, and newspapers. Trade firms on Fifth Avenue lead the trend, while other avenues may follow later.
A trimmed newspaper note recounts William Bayard Hale delivering caustic remarks at a bankers Christmas banquet. Hale mocks his own fame and jokes about a Christmas game where a cashier or president hides with bank funds, while detectives search to reclaim the loot.
The country cousin, overwhelmed by urban life, drinks a full glass of beer at dinner with his city cousin and visits a barroom after a show. An unlikely exchange leads to a bold plan for more “dinks” as they debate joining the night’s excess. The passage riffs with slang and garbled phrases, mimicking a chaotic urban scene.
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