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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1906
Page
2
An owl fluttered into the Washington Monument during foundation work and became entangled in a monitoring thread. The tremor records showed the shaft moving at night, sparking questions about the monument's stability while workers investigated the unusual cause.
London Tablet recounts Fitzstephen’s 1174 description of early English schools. Boys conducted epigrams against masters on occasion, then engaged in robust sports: cockfights on Shrove Tuesday, football in suburb fields, sham fights in Lent, Easter water quintain, archery, leaping, wrestling, and winter skating and bull and dog games, with a stern side to school life.
A Shiite rejects cold chicken offered by an Augustan Mohammedan in a Morv? tale. The exchange debunks sectarian differences by noting ritual washing details, with a Sunnite insult and the Shiite asking why both groups are called good Muslims.
A European observer contends Bavaria lags in women’s rights with men confined to supervisory roles. He notes many women perform demanding manual labor, including wood sawing, brickwork, and tramway cleaning, especially in Munich where women have replaced men in hard labor.
A detailed, old fashioned fishing portrait of tarpon sport. It describes tarpon behavior near surface, gear such as a live bait, 90 feet of line, and a dramatic duel with a 150 pound angler using a calm, skilled approach. The piece ends noting the wear on the wrist after a two hour struggle and the respect due to the silver king of the southern seas.
A group of young golfers confront a bishop over vulgar language heard on the course. An elderly man observes as one girl defends propriety, quoting Lanier and defending purity while another boy apologizes and vows not to offend again.
Dr Freeman contrasts ideal private schools with public ones. Private schools should be out of town yet accessible, offer short study periods, frequent breaks, long midday meals, morning hard work, afternoon lighter tasks, and outdoor play. Public schools should be open long hours with outdoor activity before study, nutritious noon meals, and late afternoon review plus supervised outdoor exercise. Disease screening and exclusion for contagious conditions are urged.
A New York Sunday personal item describes a woman with dark hair in a Fourth Avenue car who scolds a man for turning a page of his novel before she finishes reading. The note threatens to reveal her name and address and send $1.20 to a bookseller to spare further public displeasure.
Anecdotes from composers famed for wit and critical jabs. Rossini jokes on overtures and seven eight bars while Handel, Weber, Haydn, Berlioz, Mendelssohn and Beethoven share sharp quips about counterpoint, women, and rivals.
A fragile infant Newton survived against odds and lived to eighty five, a lifespan matching Voltaire's age. The note highlights their extraordinary longevity as a point of comparison between two famed figures.
An amateur method explains using a fixed star observed through a hole in a card to time a clock. By noting when the star disappears behind a fixed object and comparing successive nights, one can correct clock time. the Greenwich Observatory uses a similar approach with many stars to regulate chronometers.
A Cham bers' Journal writer extols the longbow s range and draw weight. He cites a six foot unstrung bow and a three foot arrow with a 100 pound pull. Latimer praises English archery training from boyhood and notes clothyard shafts deadly to 300 yards against non armor.
A woman who has lived twenty years on Ridge Hill Farm near the White Mountains endures visitors with quiet defiance. She rejects the traveler’s praise of the hills, saying she rests by tending her tomatoes and potatoes and by avoiding the bills that come with daily life.
A humorous comparison notes that humans shave facial hair while the bonmot, a South American bird, also scratches and trims its beak area leaving an oval of soft blue down on the upper lip. Philosophers view the bonmot action as no sillier than human shaving rituals.
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