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Newspaper
Connersville Curier
Location
Connersville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
8
A narrator recounts sleepwalking murder in a country inn and the sudden killing of his friend Francis Rand in a locked room. The motive appears robbery but the killer vanishes, leaving the narrator to confront a deadly secret and Margaret Rand’s plea for truth.
Dr. Burger notes in a Berlin paper that the third Douma lists only two Jewish members Nisselevitch and Friedmann. They have not held office before and lack prominence. with weaker progressive votes the duo are unlikely to influence proceedings unless they show extraordinary genius.
Congressman James E. Watson of Rushville Indiana is presented as a Republican gubernatorial candidate. The piece highlights his birthplace Winchester Randolph County education DePauw University congress service since 1894 and 1898, alliances with Speaker Cannon, author of grain inspection bill, campaigns nationwide, and Roosevelt letter support. It praises his leadership role in the house and labor endorsements.
A Kansas City Journal anecdote recalls the Duke of Buccleuch buying a cow near Dalkeith and testing a boy's honesty. The boy earned a sovereign, claimed half, and revealed the butler as the giver. The duke dismissed the servant and funded the boy's education, praising integrity.
The article offers home tips for skin care and hair rinsing with glycerin and toilet water Then shifts to a tale of Lucinda sharing chocolates with her mother and visitors, revealing she shares to gain favors. Lucinda’s mother notes her true motive is self gain rather than generosity.
A Sunday school teacher asks her girls what they gave up for Lent. The class replies warmly until the youngest, Mary, admits hesitantly that she has left off her leggings. The moment mixes humor with a lesson on sacrifice.
A coal miner in eastern Scotland tours a mine with a friend. The visitor balks at the pit mouth and the cage drop, while the miner quips he would not go down without the rope, underscoring the dangers of shaft work in old mining life.
President J L Leary of Pittsburg Peace Society visited Germany to persuade toy makers to stop producing warlike toys. He failed, noting Germans see abolition of war as distant. He cites a Western private who questions who would wear the general’s role in a uniformed unit.
In Technical World Magazine Owen MacDonald notes China now has an army it is honorable to join. Wireless telegraphy replaces drums and balloons, field glasses replace masks, khaki uniforms replace opera garb, and the bayonet replaces the two handed sword. The shift follows China’s 1894 95 war with Japan which exposed weakness and strength.
Mississippi Governor Vardaman recounts a humorous Negro marriage anecdote from Harper's Weekly. A darky clergyman notes fees vary with the groom paying $5 or $10 or less, leading to a quip about underpayment and a delayed payment endgame. The groom later claims the deal yields a deficit of one dollar and seventy five cents.
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