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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1909
Page
5
Arthur Q Lobinger of Indian Mills New Jersey shares a dental curios collection and a tale of a fearsome chair. A Brittany visitor recalls a Breton bed tale showing lit-clos panels and a mother’s note on raising six children with panels shut.
Mrs William Ellis Corey spoke at a New York luncheon about the Paris school for training child performers with Isadore Duncan and Jean de Reszke. She condemned social frivolity and snobbery and recalled Fitzgerald’s witty remark about lords.
Merrill E. Gates, secretary of the board of Indian commissioners, described in Washington the efforts to wipe out tuberculosis among American Indians. He stressed the need to educate Indians in sanitation, recounting a Warsaw farmer anecdote about bacon and a warning about ignorance.
A New York editor recalls Marion Crawford as a good if not brilliant speaker. He credited his success to a little Sorrento girl who once spoke up during a school address saying what do you know.
A Brussels antiquary Goebel hosted a meal with bread from ancient wheat and butter from Elizabethan times. Apples date to before Christ, wine older than Columbus era, and other ingredients came from Pompeii, a Scottish well, and Corinth. Six guests attended this remarkable feast.
A Washington Post quip recounts an Englishman obsessed with his bath. The banker recalls observing the ritual, noting the towel, two inches of water, spray, and a quick dash for a towel as the bath is taken.
In China doors vary as round leaf shaped or semicircular and builders avoid opposite placement to block evil spirits. Garden gateways are elaborate and octagonal forms are common reflecting religious superstition in architecture. Temples and imperial sites use triple gateways emphasising the number three and its multiples.
The passage notes Rome lakes appear distinctly blue while others show varied greens. It mentions Geneva as azure, Constance and Lucerne as green, and the Mediterranean as indigo. Brienz is greenish yellow and Thun beside it is blue.
An excited individual visits a commissioner for oaths to swear never to lay down another carpet. The exchange occurs at the London Telegraph office as the oath is requested.
Youth resists a difficult role while Maiden insists on an easy part in a Detroit Bree Press dialogue fragment. The exchange hints at actors choosing parts and personal nerves during rehearsal.
Brief quoted exchange recalls a sea serpent sighting with a humorous survival twist. The narrator describes being chased and choosing to light the gas to escape. Local color and playfulness mark the vignette’s tone.
A London actor manager performs a fearsome curse on stage as his false teeth fall out midscene. The audience laughs helplessly while the stage crew locate the teeth with a lantern, and the star resumes his tirade with renewed force. The source notes no one asked the actor about the incident.
The ore yielding quicksilver is a red rock called cinnabar, vermilion in high purity. Mercury is extracted by roasting to vaporize the metal and condensing it into a liquid metal stream. Miners face mercury fumes. strong heartiness and a lemon juice antidote mixed with strong acids are mentioned as safeguards.
A Baltimore American report cites London law prohibiting closed curtains on public carriages. Drivers must keep interiors visible to the public day or night to deter robbery and aid immediate apprehension by police against evading criminals.
The Gorgons are described as serpentine monsters with scale covered bodies and brass hands. Their hair is snakes, and their deadly gaze petrifies those who meet it. Perseus beheads one sister and escapes with the head, its blood turning into snakes in Libya.
A publisher tells a new author to describe the heroine’s outfit to avoid convention. The author answers with a witty line detailing Heloise’s attire, spotlighting a $600 dress a $250 hat a $98.75 mantilla and a $375 lace coat.
A deferential deacon privately criticizes lengthy sermons. The minister replies calmly that more knowledge would help, and the exchange ends with a light jab about the sermons being too prosy rather than simply long.
The anecdote recalls Talleyrand replying that a born king has others shave him while a ruler who gains a kingdom shaves himself. It continues with Dionysius of Syracuse supposedly aging his own beard rather than trust a barber’s hands.
A brief note reports that a single pleasure experienced brings satisfaction and lingering influence on desire and memory, reflecting a concise psychological observation within a period voice.
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