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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1907
Page
2
A Cincinnati Enquirer note cites a nature student critiquing Mark Twain’s travel book passage on ants. The student argues Twain misinterpreted ant behavior by mocking its supposed wisdom and ignores that many ants are blind, a detail Twain reportedly missed.
A traveling girl explains a turquoise locket gifted by a Tibetan woman described as a Buddhist charm to ward off bad luck. The Tibetan woman boasts three husbands while suitors applaud her, and the narrator admits having none, in a New York Press tone.
In Hanover New Hampshire Dartmouth students aged to vote at the town meeting after a poll tax was imposed. They quickly secured moderator and clerk posts and pushed a resolution to build a brick schoolhouse and a plank walk to Lebanon. The tax collector faced no further trouble for years.
In a Fortnightly Review passage the top hat is hailed as a universal attire language. A rescued silk hat milks a cow in a London park, provoking stares and a quiet riot as the eccentric cowboy and his cow depart. The piece muses on personal liberty and attire’s democratic reach.
The temple complex at Mayalipmam India comprises seven rock carved temples, each hewn from solid granite boulders. The smallest stands 24 feet high 17 feet long and 12 feet wide. Experts believe centuries were needed to carve these graceful edibles from native rock.
A Montana joining camp offers a slice of old American humor. One miner jokes that the rock is so hard they used six barrels of drills and barely scratched it, while another quips the ledge required nine barrels and still the hole stuck out six inches.
A four year old boy named Fritz goes to school for the first time and asks the teacher when the holidays begin after being seated at a desk. The anecdote from Die Muskete presents a child’s humorous take on school life.
A distressed mother laments her son has swallowed a nut. A friend reassures her that a small sum, even a cent, holds importance. The anecdote reflects Stoic or parable like advice and light humor in the face of trouble.
A humorous exchange shows a stranger negotiating lodging terms with a hotel clerk. The clerk adjusts the rate with a wry line about a dollar for the poet, highlighting a playful, streetwise interaction from a Boston Transcript citation.
A compact literary note presents a line from Massinger urging self praise by deeds and the vanity implied in verbal trumpetings.
A young playwright, after six failed works, quotes a manager who suggests starting with a one act curtain raiser. He advises sending it out with the note You can play this for nothing to secure a hearing, a tactic attributed to Sidney Grundy that led to his first success A Little Change at the Haymarket.
A Somerset vicar of the 17th century denounced microscopes and telescopes as impostors arguing vision is perverted and sight is best with one pair of spectacles. He claimed optics would demoralize society and grant unfair advantage to some over others, reflecting fears of spectacles' influence.
A late guest at a Scottish country house keeps a revolver under his pillow to defend against a supposed specter. At midnight he warns the intruder and fires, but shoots off two of his own toes and causes a houseful of cries before the truth is learned.
TFougere the jester of Czar Paul faced banishment as a punishment for a joke. He was driven through endless routes around St. Petersburg, ending where he began rather than to Siberia. The tale highlights the brutal fate of royal fools in imperial Russia.
A London wanderer reports notice boards near the East India docks and Blackwall tunnel asking drivers to walk their horses past the hospital entrance for the sake of the ill inside. At the opposite corner another board reads Thank you, driver indicating a curious parallel.
Quote recounts a moment in Chicago where a street sweeper, previously hostile, paused and did not choke the speaker with dust and germs, described as an extraordinary happening in the city. The exchange highlights public figures or neighborhood tensions in a vivid, period voice.
In a humorous exchange Mr Henpeck muses aloud about a presidential nomination. His wife quickly corrects him noting they would be nominated if they were. He then deflects and changes the subject in a light Chicago Record-Herald style quip.
A frail exchange unfolds as a young doctor and a servant debate a visitor’s role in a hospital setting. The doctor wonders if the visitor is a patient while the servant notes the visitor’s groans, hinting at a looming debt or bill to collect.
A fragment reflects on vanity and imitation linked to a Johnson quote. The lines hint at character and social posture within a refined setting, suggesting moral or cultural commentary rather than a narrative event.
The Duluth Herald recounts Tim Hurst’s recollections while he led the Browns for Von der Ahe. He describes daily routines in Philadelphia and St Louis with Mondays teaching editors how he'd win the pennant, Tuesdays denying such quotes, Wednesdays defending losses, Thursdays fining players, Fridays negotiating pitcher terms, and Saturdays signing hitters unable to hit.
A returned traveler laments ocean liner painting habits in the Philadelphia Record. He says wet paint is a constant hazard from brush wielding sailors who repaint ships three times yearly, ruining some passengers’ clothes and never letting travelers escape the work at sea or in port.
An English observer notes that lightning within storms comes from two or three centers with regular discharge intervals, explaining apparent irregularity by differing rates. In one example the northern center emitted thirty flashes at 15 30 45 60 and 90 second intervals, the southern sixteen at 17 34 and 51 seconds, with a faint sky glow preceding each great flash.
An excited man bursts into a lawyer's office and asks if a husband may open his wife's letters. The lawyer initially agrees then fears a legal offense and declines after a humorous exchange about delivering a letter between spouses.
A critic notes echo verses for epigrams and squibs. The Times once lampooned high Paganini prices in 1831, asking who pays three guineas to hear a tune and calling the audience Echo-Pack o ninnies.
A recent school examination revealed humorous misunderstandings among students. Examples include misstatements such as ignorance being 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance, an anchorite described as a hermit who has anchored himself to one place, the liver labeled as an infernal organ, and vacuum defined as nothing with air removed and placed in a pickle bottle.
In a township a man won the constable post and his family celebrated the Civic trust. A child asked if all were constables, to which the mother jokingly replied that only she and the child’s father held the job. The moment was shared as a humorous local incident.
A fisherman's tale quotes a boy crying over no supper and his father disciplining him. The exchange reveals the simple cause of the boy's fear and punishment tied to a missed meal.
Colton states patience supports weakness while impatience ruins strength, framing restraint as a virtue and urgency as a danger to power. He argues steadiness sustains resolve and avoids rash outcomes in leadership and daily life.
The essayist Charles Lamb sometimes spoke bluntly at friends, once shaming a companion at a whist party by blurting out a mocking aside about dirt on trump cards and the hand it would make.
Announces travel options to Chicago and intermediate points on May 27th and 30th and June 8th with one fare plus 2.00 round trip. Long limits apply.
City of Mexico and Return $69.15 May 1 to May 7 June 7 to 14 and 19 to July 11 Choice Three Routes Plenty of other Excursions Annual Meeting Eagles Norfolk Va Sept 2 to 7 1907 One Fare plus 2.00 round trip For Further Particulars apply to C F Warren Genl Agent A T S F Ry 411 Dooly Bk Salt Lake City Utah
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