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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1896
Page
7
At the Atlanta Exposition a cooking school run by Miss Sancy Andrews awarded enameled gold souvenir spoons for the best loaf of bread. Miss Auban Acker, an eighth grade pupil from Fair Street school, was among the prize winners.
Roy, a country boy, tries to milk Brownie the cow and ties her tail to his leg to stop her biting. The cow drags him around the yard, leaving Roy badly bruised and stunned before his mother frees him. He recovers and learns caution.
Bob visits the barber and his hair scent draws attention from the boys. Jimmy Bank offers an apple in exchange for smelling Bob's hair and the odor from the barber's necked bottles fills the room. Throughout the morning Bob accepts small trades including peanuts buckles bites of apple a broken top and a horseshoe nail in exchange for smells.
The piece notes popular party games built on repeating tough lines such as mixed biscuits and gig whip. It contrasts these with Peter Piper and suggests progressing to longer phrases like there was an old woman and she was a thistle sifter to test wit and humility.
M D Hardin recalls a case where Abraham Lincoln aided two colleagues in a matter of state and national importance. The partners expected a $5 000 fee, but Lincoln suggested about $50 for his minimal contribution, noting it was solid pay for one day’s work.
At a western lawyers reception soon after Tyler's accession the frail gilded chair toppled as Leonard tilted it back. Mr. Webster rushed to aid his guest and quipped that no cabinet work would hold together there.
The Detroit Tribune notes a dramatic trial scene where the master of ceremonies guides a sobbing witness before a jury. After extensive drilling the affair passes off creditably and is described as one of the prettiest home divorces of the season.
Professor Colorz explains blue prisms show greater value than red. Callow states blue is 25 centa and red is 10 in a brief Syracuse Post remark.
A southern superstition among many colored people holds that meeting a frog is a sign of upcoming money from an unexpected quarter. The belief treats the amphibian encounter as a fortune omen.
Denver correspondent for the New York Sun recounts a 1858 incident near Fort Laramie where a young West Point lieutenant demanded vengeance for a cow killed by Utes. He fired after five minutes, the village attacked, and all on the detachment perished. A rock mound marks the graves nine miles from the fort.
The West Indies editor Frieda Cassin, founder of the Anti guan Magazine and writer for English journals, dies of consumption at twenty four. Her forthcoming novel on leprosy life in the islands stirs controversy, as she urges law to confine and care for lepers. Philadelphia Press.
A literary woman attends an afternoon tea hosted by a New York club devoted to heroine worship. Attendees share how reading her stories gave strength and comfort, as a younger guest praises the author while a club president steps on her toes in a humorous moment.
The beginning writer Alexandre Dumas faced great difficulty shaping plots and composing sentences. He admitted to a friend that he often gnashed his teeth at slow idea development and rewrote the Dame aux Camelias five times.
Mlle Fanny Theodore Meylan, teaching in Columbus Ohio, is a Lausanne University advanced student writing a PhD thesis on The Higher Education of Women In America. She seeks access to U.S. colleges and cites royal testimonials, including lectrice to the Empress Augusta of Germany.
At a large meeting of the Bar association of Alleghany county Pennsylvania the question of admitting women to practice was decided in favor of the women by more than a ten to one vote. Women will receive the same privileges as male lawyers. The vote followed a debate on a resolution urging judges to bar women from study as bar students in the county and from admission as affiliates from elsewhere.
Admirers recall Mrs Louise Chandler Moulton as the American Sappho. Her celebrated golden voice and genial manners earned her lasting friendships with distinguished writers. Her warm hearted sympathy kept confreres devoted as she returns to Boston.
Danish women announce the opening of a women centered theatre where plays are written by women and all roles including male characters are to be performed by women. Margaret Thorson has finished a play and Frau Emma Gad has prepared a ballet for the venture.
Mile Faure presided as chief patroness at the Elysee meeting to found La Ligue des Enfants de France. Promoters hail from the bourgeoisie and aim to rescue children from destitution and neglect with moral and material aid. Faure spoke effectively in her public debut.
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