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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1904
Page
7
A fragmentary dialogue notes a girl with a red trimmed hat and a line about a girl not appearing to try and attract attention. The text includes phrases about a very hard TE and a judge figure, with unclear surrounding context.
Tommy asks why be a boy than a girl, grandmother replies a papa works while mamma stays with the children. The Little Chronicle presents the humorous exchange about gender roles.
Observations show the European bluethroat makes a single nocturnal migration from central Africa to the German coast, covering about 1 600 miles in nine hours. It departs after sunset from Africa and reaches northern summer haunts before dawn the next morning.
A humorous exchange from the Millinery Trade Review where a husband plans to fund a new house and offers his wife 8 charge between that and a hat she desires. The wife quips she cannot wear a house on her head.
A quotation presents a panel interrogation of Thomas De Quincey asking why there are more women than men. He replies that it reflects nature's arrangement, noting that we always see more of heaven than of worth.
A ballroom scene shows Her Ravir and a partner exchanging quips after a waltz. He declares a love of flancing while she tries to repair a torn flounce and teases his readiness to learn.
A quoted vignette recalls a cold supper at home and a wife’s warmth as the remedy. The speaker notes relief after the unsettling meal, contrasting the chill of the night with domestic comfort.
The text notes the first steam hauler built to move Quincy granite for the Bunker Hill monument in 1826, three miles long. It cites the Charleston and New Hamburg line as the earliest steam railway at 137 miles, with locomotives of three to five tons, and a ten ton English engine deemed too heavy. It contrasts 25 engines then with one today, and contrasts historic train loads of 200 tons to modern loads of 2000 to 2500 tons.
In a country mission room Dean Hole impressed clergymen with the need to be understood by their congregations. A farmer asked what it was to be asked, and the reply said it lasted about an hour and a half. An anecdote from The Sham Sailor describes a beggar puzzled by a naval question in court.
The text recounts Voltaire's reluctance to learn English citing his dislike for how English words like plague and ague were pronounced. He believed the terms sounded better in French and fled from the language after a philosophical outburst.
Rudyard Kipling visited Cec Rhodes at Lekkerwijn in Paarl South Africa where breakfast billboards and wall placards appeared around Rhodes farm. Rhodes returned to find Kipling hungry and reading as famine themed messages urged eating to sustain life and start the day.
A florist notes that a single peanut plant grown in a six to eight inch pot indoors can be a beauty. In a warm room or by the stove a peanut kernel planted in loose loam will germinate and grow, its leaves closing like a book at night or before rain, with tiny yellow flowers.
The article surveys varied food taboos and likes across cultures. It notes Arabs favor dates with bread, Greenlanders eat whale fat, Hindoos avoid flesh, English prize beef, Apennine folk chestnuts, Romans prized peacocks, Chinese menus feature birds nests and fats, French claim frogs legs as delicacy.
A Adelaide resident tells the Washington Post that oysters from parts of Australia are as large as saucers and twice the size of those from the United States but lack flavor and are very tough. He notes better Australian varieties exist, yet still prefers Chesapeake Bay products, asserting the United States leads in seafood.
The article explains that birds maintain and preen each feather to remove useless parts. Feathers are spaced with air pockets that insulate against cold and help lift when warming. Dirty or tangled plumage prevents drying and proper insulation, risking overheating and eventual death.
A physician recommends a quick two step cure for a liver disorder. Drink half a tomato in cold water before bed and the other half in hot water with lemon or lime on waking. Both remedies are worth trying for cleansing the liver and improving digestion.
Fragmentary verse excerpt from the Kanaan City Journal notes a playful pursuit theme. It references chasing and being pursued with archaic spellings and poetic rhythm. The readable lines hint at a humorous or whimsical exchange about fate and flight.
A fragment shows a discouraged exchange where one speaker denies seeing something and the other claims not to contradict, reflecting a terse dialogue tone from the Washington Star.
The excerpt discusses how lip shape and expression reveal personality traits and fate. It cites Benjamin Franklin and Queen Elizabeth noting lips signal trustworthiness and judgment. It describes straight firm lips as gentle and pleasing, while thin or drooping lips imply wit, frivolity, or danger, and notes coquettish lips show laughter and love of music.
The Worcester Spy notes map making has evolved with art, becoming essential for land use, construction, and sales. It highlights maps' rising popularity in schooling and daily travel, where agents and ads push maps as practical tools for reference and planning.
The piece describes Buenos Aires homes mainly single story with roofs used as living space. Families promenade on house tops cooling breezes morning and evening. Children play there while nurses carry infants and maids tidy garments. clothes dry and aired atop roofs during the heated term.
A vivid Chicago Tribune quote recounts a boastful remark about finding a perfect wife through a bargain. Mr. Ferguson asserts decisive action and praises a past marriage choice, while addressing Laura with reassurance in a dramatic exchange.
The Chinese use soapstone extensively to craft items such as trays for Dena stone, rubbing slabs, ink stands, incense boxes, pandalwood burners, mower baskets, candlesticks, and cups. The material is valued for emblems and figures associated with Confucius and is revered by devotees in daily practice.
A clipped quip references a Boston Transcript pun about a pig regretting having only four feet to feed from. The satirical line hints at self image and wealth without naming individuals or places beyond the newspaper source.
A garbled Chicago Post snippet hints at a cryptic exchange about carrying money in a purse. The dialogue references a name Weill and a guarded reply suggesting a smoother way to handle a purse, framed as a curious old newspaper fragment.
A distorted dialogue fragment presents unclear names and phrases. The speakers mix mispronunciations and unclear references, making it hard to determine any concrete event, person, or location from the garbled content.
A quirky old hunter offers survival tips for dangerous beasts. He says stand motionless when cornered by snakes or swarms of bees, wave a knife at attacking dogs, and that sharks retreat when forceful. He adds a final quip about facing a cinnamon bear by buying prayers.
Mrs. Burton and Sir Richard Burton observed what they believed a living rat moved to music from a carriage near Trieste. The next day inquiry revealed the creature was a tin figure affixed to a rooftop, debunking the marvel and ending the tale.
A Canadian university man touring Scotland last summer jokes about breaking the Sabbath after a local warns him he is breaking more than stones. The pair spot ruins of a castle and the man adds it is not the day to be opening such things.
The excerpt debates whether a perfect vacuum can exist, noting air or mercury vapor quickly fills any space. It contrasts Descartes with Galileo, asserting nature abhors a vacuum and that science defines vacuum as a space from which matter has been expelled.
An arqueological account describes a silent country village dance in Russia. Men form one knot and women another as a piper tunes. A youth challenges a maid with a handkerchief, she signals consent, and they circle in a wordless, braiding dance.
In New York many artists run bare studios with only the working table and little furniture. The article notes that costly draperies and art objects distract from the work, while many successful artists keep simple, functional spaces where the creative imagination dominates.
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