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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1908
Page
6
A long, wry historical note on odd legal mistakes that altered property transfers and doomed deeds. It cites cases from misvalued stamps to erasures and clerks errors, with the Dovaston versus Payne quarrel and the 1641 Cardigan duel indictment as vivid examples.
An actor playing a pirate chief kept poise when a prop mishap occurred. A stage extra briefly appeared through gauze waves, and the actor cried out a man overboard. Pirates hauled him aboard to applause, mistaken for part of the scene.
A diplomat notes an awkward error by a senator, saying the man reminded him of a Sunanee farm hand. The remark suggests a comparison to a workman’s manner and readiness in handling a difficult situation.
A Sunapee farmer hosted a Christmas dinner for forty helpers. The spread included roast turkey and goose, cranberries, pumpkin and mince pies, hot doughnuts with maple sugar, and plum pudding. A tall farm hand carved two ducks but gave one to a neighbor saying he could manage only one.
A Civil War veteran recalls a surprise Confederate attack on his unit. Irish young Thomas Smith refuses an order to halt, declaring Shoot and be hanged, what's one bullet to a basketful as bullets rain and the Pullets fly.
A London Truth tale tells how an Irish viceroy loses sovereign airs once offshore and is shown to perform humble tasks aboard the Holyhead packet. On arrival in Holyhead harbor a lady tells him to carry her bag, declaring he is no longer viceroy.
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