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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1895
Page
2
Jumbled snippets mix humor and social comment from Chicago in a breezy humorous column. Items range from new household gadgets to social mores and road talk, including talk of bicycle culture, town name changes, and a critic’s quips about royalty and politics.
Sha W. Foster recalls Li Heng Chang being shot and feeling dishonor more than pain after a defeat by a common man. The passage notes disdain for personal stain and a hypothetical ennoblement by the Japanese. It mentions close or closing colleges and the start of summer schools, which teach a variety of subjects.
A New York Herald report describes a midnight rite near Mosul where Yezidi worshippers in Sheikh Adi Valley perform an underground initiation and a ceremonial sacrifice of a white cow before the shrine. The sequence includes a masked procession, sacred torches, the king bird emblem, and the initiation of a postulant in a subterranean temple, followed by a return to the surface for further rites at the shrine.
An old woman confronts railroad staff to demand six bits for a hog in a comic tale from a Detroit Free Press recount. She theatrically bargains, ties up a scene, and exits with a mix of menace and humor, leaving observers puzzled by the claim and its resolution.
A monsoon weather gamble unfolds in Calcutta where brokers and hawkers quote odds on rainfall. Prices move with the rain, bets cover the period and monsoon onset, and traders hedge in the open market as rain certainty fluctuates between hours and months.
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