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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1912
Page
4
Whistler's quarrels with Ruskin, fame, and a celebrated trial over Nocturnes. his finish and habits. A Thackeray moment reveals tears upon hearing Little Nell is dead in an intimate study scene.
Doan’s Kidney Pills are advertised as a remedy for kidney trouble with claims of preventing backache nervousness and urinary issues. Customer Mrs. M A Bent of Marlboro Mass praises the product after using it at Burke Drug Co. Price listed at 50 cents with Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents.
The National Grange names chairmen for committees led by State Master C B Kegley of Washington and others from Colorado to Vermont including agriculture T Laylin Ohio and ritual J Arthur Sherwood Connecticut. N. P. Hull to hold state lecturers conference in Spokane. The article also reviews Napoleons retreat from Moscow with famine and death.
State Master W H Vary seeks clarity from George Flanders on People versus Guiton Co Albany. Case tests if oleomargarine colored to imitate butter is illegal when color comes from ingredients. Four cow breeds milk samples show color variation from deep Guernsey to light Jersey. Court of appeals to decide amid Grange support for honest butter and opposition to masquerading oleo.
Canon Rawnsley gathered lore about Wordsworth in the Lake District and met an old servant at Rydal Mount. The retainer recalled Wordsworth as absentminded and preoccupied with his own thoughts, often missing meals while muttering to himself. Mrs Wadsworth would sometimes urge a small disruption to rouse him, noting he was careful not to break china.
A Liverpool builder’s mantel clock supposedly fell at 11 30 in the morning, yet sustained no damage. An hour later the same clock’s time and a second striker fell from a building, matching the moment of the incident and leaving the couple puzzled by the uncanny alignment.
In an Algiers botanical garden a palm spathe three feet long erupted with a detonating sound. The head sprayed with golden dust as the flower roasted to rust by the day’s extreme dryness and a recent sirocco. The director cites fermentation from arid air as the cause.
A rough but clever Scotch physician, Dr. Sanderson, was avoided by the ignorant. While passing a street, a sweep tumbled from a staircase. The doctor rushed to help asking if hurt. The sweep replied no and claimed to feel better.
A compact verse fragment notes the varied ough forms in English spelling and pronunciation. It imagines an invalid with a strong will who aims to persevere despite illness, mentioning words like tough cough hiccough plough and a resolve to continue life’s course.
A compact humor note about minds and manners with pithy exchanges on minding one’s own business and the trouble of persuading others. Prose snippets include a woman’s fortune tied to her face and a man’s vanity as a cheek asset. Adages reflect patience and misfortune in light verse form.
An elderly traveler in Brittany selects a generous gift for Lucile and Jules, paying them for model sittings with 10 francs total. In Paris, painter Bouguereau reveals the gift is a check for 8,000 francs, declaring it their dowry as he explains his search for perfect feet led him to them.
Harry H. Waterman will end four season run as operator at the Princess Sunday evening to become chief operator at the Majestic theatre in Fitchburg. The Jolly 14 annual outing gathered members from Providence Pawtucket Worcester Boston and Clinton with a dinner by J Henry Gleason.
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