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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1907
Page
3
Peggy, Al, and Gert narrate escaping their strict father and a looming arranged marriage to Miss Tabitha Jenkins. With $14.78, they flee to seek independence, planning defiance and a bold future while pondering their missing father and the notion of sovereignty in their lives.
A tramp asks a housewife for aid claiming seven years since leaving home to support his wife and eleven children. He speaks of wanting to surprise them with relief and seeks charity to ease their suffering.
An article in a room may sympathetically vibrate with a piano tone creating jingling sounds. To locate the cause have two people test by striking a key and listening around the room to identify the vibrating object and remove it. Hard substances dropped in the piano area can produce a rattling noise even if very small.
A historic recipe describes making a cement for china and glass from crushed oyster shells, a dissolved Russian isihglass in soft water, and the whites of eyes mixed into a paste. A wine glass stem cemented with this mixture held thirty pounds. Another famous cement uses two parts lime and one part flint glass, ground separately and mixed with water before use.
The text describes laundering and whitening lace using velvet, tissue, and careful handling. It prescribes steeping black tea with Avalér and rinsing the lace in tea, then using arabic tea to strengthen the rinse, wringing dry, and ironing between papers. It emphasizes gentle shaping to avoid damage.
A short moral urging readers to admit fault after quarrels and apologize sincerely. It stresses the ease of reconciliation, the harm of pride, and the pain of unresolved disputes, noting both lovers and spouses should seek to mend anger promptly. Louis Republic.
The piece discusses the idea that the dead weigh more than the living and offers hypotheses about center of gravity and body elasticity. It then shifts to a political anecdote about Tim Sullivan of York, who vents fury after a long wait for a secretary, exclaiming in frustration at the secretary’s office.
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