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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1907
Page
3
The readable fragments describe a tense dining room moment with gas sputtering and an artist in charge of winter work. The garbled text suggests ultimatums and danger as voices issue commands while a harmful line is uttered.
An antiquated discussion contrasts the African king of beasts with the brown bear, arguing which is superior in strength and speed. The piece muses on natural history, tribal geography, and the imagined outcomes of a direct encounter, while threading in notes on Indian routes and local antiquities.
A dog roots out a lion as four travelers search thick brush for a missing farmer’s sheep. The lion is spotted fifteen paces away, growls, and bolts before being killed by a rifle shot. The party finds a sheep carcass, notes the lion avoids intestines, and the dog follows the trail back.
Will Payne in Everybody's argues against infallible success rules and notes professional clairvoyance at a dollar per sitting fails to foresee eviction or arrest. He says some have succeeded without relying on such methods and warns that even those who publish rules cannot guarantee constant success.
Two visitors in the remote west of Ireland approach a derelict peasant cabin. A youth on a fence is asked if the chimney draws well, and he replies with a witty insult about the passerby.
In an early show at the Fifth Avenue Theatre New York John Stetson manager and Sir Arthur Sullivan watched from a box Stetson asked for the opera's name Sullivan replied A good name gone Dollarz Stetson quips as he notes empty seats and money draining from his pocket.
Fragmentary excerpt discusses Death Valley legends and allure driven by gold, along with notes on Alaska peninsula brown bears. Mentions old Indian trails, water conditions, and the bears as large flesh eaters with diverse diets. An Andrew J. Stone reference appears from Scribner's.
A Philadelphia tailor compiling measurements from a century of data argues that Americans have grown taller and stronger while slimmer. He notes average chest size up from 36 to 38 inches and height from 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 34% inches, with leg length increased and waist girth reduced by two inches.
The article explains cuneiform writing with wedge shaped and arrow headed characters found on Babylonian and Persian monuments. It notes obsolescence after Alexander the Great and lists Persian cuneiform as sixty letters and Assyrian as 600 to 700 partly alphabetic characters. It mentions a famous inscription in Hnicton, Pyesio.
A young aspirant tries to imitate every great man from Alexander the Great to Horace Greeley but lacks a coherent identity. The managing editor dismisses him for his inconsistent persona and weak manuscript, noting the world moves too fast for a collage of famed traits.
A London Mail note recalls a father who, amid interruptions, explains he has a small son at home who cannot yet speak a bright word. Neighbors, moved by his modest plea, grasp his hands in silent gratitude.
A German officer's widow visits the pension office to claim her pension but is told the certificate showing she is alive bears a December 21 date while the pension was due December 15. The clerk insists on proof she was alive on the 15th, asking why a later alive date would suffice.
The famed John Randolph of Roanoke is described meeting a political foe on a narrow street. The rival shoved with an elbow and declared he would never make way for scoundrels.
A letter discusses various pronunciations of the word brougham in Scotland and England. It notes Scots pronounce with a loch-like ch and long oo, while London society uses broom or broo am and educated younger speakers favor hea ai. It warns that the vulgar form brome is least favored.
The Revue Economique Internationale notes nearly four tenths of Russia in Europe is wooded. Russian forests are vast, nearly equal to the combined area of western Europe. Austria Hungary ranks second to Russia in European forest wealth.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt recalls a young pianist told she was a Christian pianist. Her father doubted the compliment, and the instructor explained he meant she did not let her right hand know what her left hand does, a joke about hidden technique.
A humorous piece contrasts a cat anecdote with a painter inquiry. A man boasts of reviving a drowning cat with a brick, while Mrs. Cartwright seeks a painter Napoleon Lamer to touch up her kitchen walls and struggles with his comically broken English as he declines tall, high ceiling work.
A traveler recounts a Africa chase with a lion. He fled with no cartridges and leaped at a single moment to grab the animal by the jaw and nose, forcing the beast to death and earning a narrow escape.
Mr Grouch quips a single man is wise while Mrs Grouch cites Solomon with 700 wives. The playful exchange ends with a humorous misquote and a lingering dig at marriage for knowledge.
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