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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
3
The piece recalls the quill as a writing tool once cut by skilled “quill drivers” and flourished. It notes steel pens and goose quills fading from common use, contrasting first and last teachers’ mastery and the lingering presence of quills in some homes into recent decades.
A Cassell's Magazine excerpt recalls historic zoo fights with a lion and tiger at Edmonds’s menagerie and a later Regent's Park clash between a tiger and tigress. The piece also notes an offbeat scene with Lord Russell of Killowen at a club over a rubber game, where a subaltern teases the chief justice.
A Latin professor explains ostracite derivation from ostreum while recounting early Roman banishment practices. A student mishears and quips that the shell game from Coney Island derives from the old Roman shell method, prompting amused commentary in the Brooklyn Times.
A witty exchange on ambition compares being a big toad in a small puddle to a little toad in a large one. The Chicago Times Herald quotes a quip about self-improvement. An unrelated note estimates global annual precipitation at 29,000 cubic miles of water.
Boston area rail notices list Central Massachusetts divisions and the Union Passenger Station located on Causeway Street. The item reads like a transit timetable fragment or public transport notice with station and division labels.
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