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Newspaper
Dothan Eagle
Location
Dothan, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1907
Page
7
A pupil asks about German words for speak and break while a Brooklyn Eagle item recalls a teacher explaining etymology. A traveler jokes about spiritism and dead returning, noting that the living often fail to return a ten dollar debt.
The text explains palindromes and palin dromes long before modern quirks, with examples like Madam I'm Adam and Was it a cat I saw. It notes backward and forward letter readings, and describes a Latin word list whose letters form multiple interrelated words when read by rows and columns.
A clergyman tests a Sunday school boy on miracles. The boy replies that a night sunrise would be time to get up, not a miracle. The anecdote, cited from St. James' Gazette, contrasts religious questioning with practical wit.
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