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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Mar 07, 1907
Page
7
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A promotion urging readers to subscribe to the Herald offering a weekly in British Columbia and a daily in Canada for three dollars and twenty five cents a year.
A long jumble of items from Slough to Scotland covers a reservist’s legal case, fines for motorists in Huntingdonshire, a Bristol court chimney offence, a new Liverpool children's infirmary, Mersey dock dues, Channel tunnel impact, a Nottinghamshire church fire, and various deaths and trials.
An account from a Kansas town describes two visitors at a lodge event and a box purchase amid lively banter. The tale includes a playful reference to John Keats on a card and a doctor’s humorous anecdote about a patient and a kitchen knuckle joke, showcasing small town humor and local characters.
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky laments a Louisville lawyer who wins in lower courts only to have cases overturned by the Kentucky Supreme Court. On a train, Blackburn confronts the lawyer as he studies a large volume of state Supreme Court decisions. The lawyer dismisses it as not law but a collection of Supreme Court rulings.
The English diplomatist Sir Edward Monson recalls Lincoln’s patient mercy during a tense Washington visit. An eminent old lady railed at the government for an hour, and Lincoln endured calmly. He later quipped about a child’s innocent misunderstanding of grown up violence.
An Irish immigrant working for a New York building firm is told to carry mortar up scaffolding. When he needs to descend, the ladder is missing. He asks the foreman how to get down and is told the same way he came up. He quips that he climbed head first.
An old colored woman seeks front row seats for a magician in town. He reads the news through a red flannel and then double thickness flannel. She fears the act and mutters she must leave, joking the show isn’t safe for a woman in calico.
A mossy datestone in a country churchyard bears verses about mothers, grandfathers, and family life. The poem reflects nostalgia and humor as readers glean meanings from faded inscriptions.
Dr Wile testified in a life life investigation concerning a $1000 check allegedly sent by Hynes as a payment to a purchaser. Hynes claimed the cheque covered the difference between buyers and the amount paid into court. Dr Nesbitt denied any duplicity in the affair. The quoted Virginia plantation anecdote follows, describing a plan to scare crows with pitch and a tree fall.
A comic tale describes Dupre being corrected by his mother after misbehaving on a street car. She warns him to sit quietly next time, and he sobs promising to do so if ever able to sit down again.
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