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Newspaper
Cuba Pilot
Location
Cuba, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1888
Page
3
A jumbled narrative recounts Mark Twain being led in disguise to a rural printing office by a mysterious editor of the Weekly Progress. The editor promises publication of Twain’s writings if he joins for a few minutes, then guides him back, amid talk of truth and trust.
An Indian snake-charmer Kondajee died after a cobra bite while attempting to revive a dead boy bitten earlier. Witnesses at the inquest suggested the charmers’ belief in antidotes and life-restoring rites, contrasted with the charmer’s own disregard for his safety.
An ancient Arabic saying links hunger to firmer judgment and patience, noting hunger dulls the mind and wordly irritability. The piece advises light pre study meals and reports anecdotes of irritability fading after eating, including a remark by a grandmother about mood tied to hunger and children’s crying.
A 1679 attack at Lincoln Inn Theatre in London aimed to burn the building as Duchess of Portland was present, injuring several. In 1721 Macbeth provoked a staged melee with factions clashing, the manager being struck, fights erupting, and outside rioters smashing set pieces before military force closed the theater for a week.
A garbled passage mentions an accomplished robin from Rondout that whistles like a mockingbird. It references a Thomas O’Donnell and fragments about a mocker and Bowery actors, but the text is severely garbled and lacks a clear narrative or dates.
The Rev. I DeWitt Talmage preached on enduring hardship drawing on Biblic texts. He praised ordinary heroes in sickness, marriage hardship, poverty, and domestic strain, naming “Heroes of the needle” and “Heroes and heroines” who suffer uncomplainingly and serve others.
New York Press notes a primrose lunch banquet given by Murray Hilt Bud on Saturday for twelve debutante guests. Pink and green theme colors show through linens and decor with silk, ferns, willow baskets, and primrose desserts.
A long compendium of curious notices reports girls preserving extracted teeth as jewelry charms and wearing them as keepsakes. It cites a New York dentist about patients wrapping molars and a woman wearing a tooth in a bracelet set with diamonds.
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