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Newspaper
Corydon Democrat
Location
Corydon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1909
Page
7
In ancient Mexico under Aztec rule nobles seeking audience with Montezuma wore a rough aloe leaf mantle to show subjection. The garment concealed their robes and was required by etiquette, while commoners supplied the fabric. Those presenting themselves were barefoot and humbly proffered their request.
A Springfield couple buried their cat after it seemed dead, placing a rosebush over the grave. The next morning the cat returned to the door, rose bush in paw, prompting astonishment at the tale shared by a nature writer in New York.
In Dorset a cluster of villages take their name from the Puddie stream. Puddle Hinton Puddle Town Tul puddle Affpuddle Turners Puddle and Bryans Puddle provoke remarks on the nn riddle. Residents once asked to rename themselves but the reply was final and firm.
The Christian Register notes that Dr Hale and the late Bishop Huntington of New York were close friends. Huntington, formerly a Unitarian, adopted Episcopalian saint day salutations and began signing letters with the saint’s name. Hale replied with a playful “Wash day” after his signature.
A Brooklyn resident recalls an embarrassing incident on a crowded trolley where a stranger harshly attacked another man for disliking his political and business methods. The aggressor only realized the target after a friend informed him, leaving him disconcerted.
The Sun is described as a real nucleus hotter than any furnace, surrounded by multiple shells of atmosphere. The outer gaseous layer is vast, miles thick, forming a flood of gas that conceals the true core.
A quoted exchange shows tension as a prompt rebuke critiques personal boundaries in a brief Chicago Tribune style clip. The dialogue highlights discomfort with arm and waist contact and a playful defense of notice over time.
A brief item notes a man ill for a week and a companion who looks worse, implying caring duties and concern in Atchison. The terse line suggests domestic hardship and social judgment in a local context.
An Irish recruit imagines military ranks while a corporal assigns sentry posts. A surprised general questions him about his identity and the recruit pretends to be a tiny general, prompting a tense moment before readiness and drill are proposed.
A speaking woman criticizes women who misstate age and reveals a playful ruse. She says she avoids lying by passing the fib to the questioner, replying that she is a year or two older than the other woman. The friend’s reaction suggests sly judgment and humor.
The blue green metallic female bee excavates sandy ground in May to form protected brood cells. Using liquid plaster of parts, Dr Smith traces a four foot plus tunnel system with shallow lateral branches ending in breeding cells, the mother dying as her offspring reach the surface.
An old Kentucky preacher expounds biblical tales with zoological framing. He links Noahs ark Jonah Balaams ass and Daniels lions to modern beasts, while listeners question authenticity. A younger attendee asks if the lions were like today, the preacher replies they were before circuses.
Passengers waiting at a Vermont way station pondered the arrival of a Burlington train. The station master explains the service combines freight and passenger cars, calling it scrambled and mixed.
A Chicago Record Herald quip notes a so called advantage in marriage. The speaker jokes that a sophisticated husband saves time by not needing to search his pockets at night. The line reflects playful gender commentary from the era.
In a letter exchange, Miss Oldgirl questions the reported great age of Methuselah. Mr. Frank responds that doubting the traditional figure is encouraging, as quoted in the Baltimore American.
A correspondent reflects on gout as an inherited affliction yet often a source of pride when acquired. The piece frames gout through a social lens and quotes the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
A light pun explains why a camel is easily angered as its back is always up. The joke hinges on the double meaning of back up as a posture and a warning.
A nature student recalls trapping three fledgling thrushes and their mother, who fed them for three days then brought a sprig of deadly larkspur to the cage. She sang a sad farewell and left, while the fledglings died the next morning, prompting mixed audience reactions.
Secretary Robert Rt Hitt visiting Alexandria heard a hotel clerk claim an American grammar existed. The clerk produced Petroleum V Nasbys letters presented by D R Locke as the supposed grammar, described as phonetic, in a multilingual hotel scene.
An English officer famed for wit, posted to Bombay, meets a vain military secretary at government house. When offered two fingers to shake, he replies that three come from the governor, sparking laughter and a change in the secretary’s manners though he never forgives the ADC.
A tale recalls Bjornson arriving in Bergen at night to urge locals to go to bed. He claimed Berlin's standard sufficed for Bergen, a joke that echoed when a later visit found the city deserted with no lights, no banners, and empty streets as Bergen remembered.
A Tallapoosa pastor mocks Bruddah Calhoun White for repenting at lawst, while Calhoun White retorts from the pew that the ninety and nine needn't crow and could reveal more if Al pressed. The exchange captures a charged moment of religious and social tension.
A colorful old man sits in a dentist chair described as torture in a quip from the Chicago News. The dentist asks if he should give laughing gas and the man replies he will wait until the tooth is out, joking about staffin at the chair.
A brief excerpt shows a tense exchange as a man retorts you are beside yourself while the woman jeers with a shrill laugh and taunts him about seeing double in New York.
A humorous exchange notes why the bar is named Flannel with Duzno replying that the reason is he naturally shrinks from washing. The light quotation captures a witty salon mood in London.
A compact quotation from John Ruskin asserts that the virtue of life rests on steady purpose and unwavering effort. It emphasizes clear aims, persistent energy, and a noble conduct guiding daily action.
Unknown author crafts rhymes from the Revolutionary era that hide both loyalist and rebel currents. Read straight, they honor king and parliament, but read downward around the comma they condemn Congress and tyranny with lines about Mansfield North and Bute and a wish for General Washington.
A London Answers piece describes powerful searchlights that outshine the full moon for night naval glare. It notes 63 mile beam ranges with mirrors enhancing reach, and reports the pupil reflex and enemy demoralization as the beam is flashed and withdrawn.
The reminiscence centers on Deacon Stephen Potter a Utica pioneer known for eccentricity and strong morals. In a land dispute a friend asked Potter for land value and he answered I know every foot of it and I would not give a dollar an acre for it even if my yoke of oxen drew on glaze ice.
The Philadelphia Press outlines official flag proportions: a stripe width half of the flag length, navy blue field seven stripes deep, two-fifths across the length, and forty six stars arranged in six rows with alternating counts. Stars sized so half their width spaces to the next star.
Paris hosts a cat exchange in a large rear chamber of a wineshop where many cats of all sizes mingle and miaul. Buyers are mainly furriers glove makers and cooks, paying from 20 to 214 cents for a sleek tomcat. The tale claims cats end up in stewpans of enterprising restaurants.
Mrs Boges complains her husband nags about a fitful issue with lace curtains while Mrs Woogs notes her husband has been knocking at their front door every morning at eight for twenty years in a light humorous panel from Puck.
Cleveland Leader quotes suggest a character avoided making friends while deliberately forming bully enemies. The fragment hints at social dynamics and a narrator remarking on personal choices and stakes in relationships.
A humorous note from the Boston Transcript describes a household moment with Willie and Papa as a large bug sits on the ceiling and the father dismisses the task.
A historical quotation attributed to Oldsmith stresses that lawmaking must balance sanctions with rewards. The statement argues that legislation should actively encourage good behavior alongside punishment for violations.
A London Tatler anecdote recalls antics where people exploited rigid rules to obtain stamps. One man paid with pennies and copper, another used a telegram to squeeze extra stamps by modifying a message before leaving with two stamps.
The night clerk recalls a queer incident where Brown, aiming for a 4 am train, woke in Jones's clothes and only realized the mixup at the depot. He returned to the hotel and slept again, believing the clerk had awakened the wrong man.
The piece contrasts polar life with temperate life noting men die frozen in biographies yet survivors embrace a seasonal cycle. It describes polar endurance, long light and long dark seasons, and winter activities of bear hunts, torchlight expeditions, storytelling, conversation, and contemplation.
An MP recalls a nuisance bore who plagued him at Parliament. His secretary Parton unknowingly exposed the visitor’s true motive, revealing the bore sought the secretary’s job. The MP avoided further encounters from that moment.
The seventeen year locusts, also called Pharaohs locusts, produce sounds from rapid vibrations of two thin abdominal films. Notes vary by locality with bass tones along streams and shrill sounds in highlands and mountains as observed along the Ohio river.
A Scottish clergyman boasted on a railway carriage that he had been a coupler for over twenty years, but a railway worker retorts that he can uncouple while the minister cannot. The exchange underscores a humorous clash of pride between a cleric and a workingman in a passing tale.
Mrs Dimpleton demands a new doctor after a remark about treating him as a human being. The exchange highlights a conflict over medical care and dignity.
A young mother boasts the baby resembles her, while a bachelor brother notes sharp remarks to her face reveal the sting of envy and sibling strain in a domestic scene.
A fragment quotes Uncle Eben noting that keeping secrets depends on others starting rumors. The line reflects social pressure and the view that one cannot reveal secrets if others begin them, illustrating a community urge for discretion.
The piece recounts Craig known as the Poet at London cricket and football venues. He deflects interruptions with sharp retorts at the Oval Leyton and Canterbury, turning taunts into clever repartee about poetry and money.
A discussion on stock market speculation notes that predicting up or down movements is a losing gamble. Leslie's Weekly argues that Wall Street winners use core business traits in buying and selling, relying on bank exchanges, railway earnings, bank failures, iron market, trade balance, and crop outlook to guide decisions.
A cheese omelet recipe uses milk eggs flour butter salt and grated cheese. Heat milk, cream butter and flour, mix with hot milk, beat yolks and whites separately, fold in cheese, bake in a hot oven for about half an hour until solid.
In a crowded New York City classroom, children bring seeds for a gardening project. The teacher uses common names, but a girl corrects her, saying that the yellow grain is pigeon seed and that bread seed is wheat, reflecting local habit in the block.
A Frankford man, traveling from Athante City, shows his wife a cheap photographic portrait. The wife identifies the man as Jim, questioning where the image came from and what he told the husband. The picture is a poor likeness and raises questions about the supposed admirer.
A Philadelphia Ledger note recounts a warden proposing baseball for prisoners as a discipline tool. He suggests that if a man becomes obstreperous the warden will make him umpire, framing the idea as a control measure within the prison system.
A humorous quip contrasts a woman's whist club with a man's poker club. The joke notes women return home for dinner while men return to breakfast, as quoted in the Newark Star.
A lighthearted note asks if the college course met expectations with a witty reply. The daughter is said to be marrying one of the professors, reflecting a social stereotype of the era.
The Chicago News notes a proverb that expenses in youth are debts due in later life and suggests they come due about thirty years after their origin. It frames spending in youth as a future financial obligation.
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