Absent Minded Little Boy Arrives In Professor's Room
A nurse lightly opens the door and informs the professor that a little boy has arrived. The professor repeats the phrase and asks the child what he wants, reflecting on the unexpected visitor.
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Newspaper
Duncan Arizonian
Location
Duncan, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1912
Page
4
A nurse lightly opens the door and informs the professor that a little boy has arrived. The professor repeats the phrase and asks the child what he wants, reflecting on the unexpected visitor.
A good eight room dwelling with about four lots and a young bearing orchard on Main Street offered as income property at a bargain. Also a three room dwelling with adjoining lots on Main Street, another good income property at a bargain. Apply to L F Vaughn.
Dr J T Curtiss of Dwight Kansas cites personal cure from eczema using Electric Bitters claiming broad blood purification benefits. The tonic is praised for eczema tetter salt rheum ulcers boils and running sores with liver kidney and bowel stimulation and poison expulsion. Priced at 50 cents with pharmacist satisfaction guaranteed.
Local items report J. H. Dunagan’s car running well as the town copes with high water delaying an automobile party from Douglas to Apache Box gold strike. Residents urge completion of the Duncan bridge. Also noted are local sales ads, mining travel setbacks, and promotions for Bucken's Arnica Salve and Dr King’s New Life Pills.
An article contrasts the old American tall centerpiece with English style of small, single color elements. It cites crystal vases, fruit mounds, and pink and purple floral pairings, noting eye clarity and social ease. It also mentions New Mexico's Legislature convening last Monday and Phoenix’s upcoming session as a major event.
The article describes making a small Maltese Cross shaped pincushion. It instructs drawing a perfect cross on thick cardboard, padding the front with cotton wool, covering with pale blue velvet and back with sateen, sewing edges, outlining with dark blue silk cord, and adding a matching ribbon loop or brass ring for wall suspension.
A South fashion note features a striped linen frock with a double skirt and blouse. The design is simple and youthful, requiring precise fit and cut. Skirts are short, blouse has fullness, trimmed only with a white linen collar edged in embroidered scallops.
The Commoner laments a historic spectacle where a man enters the presidency on one recommendation and leaves on the same man's condemnation. Now they plan to break a century of precedent by nominating that same man again to avert a party defeat.
The message proposes Lamar Cobb of Clifton as a replacement for Governor Hunt at the Baltimore convention. It notes Cobb’s ties to Graham Greenlee and Gila counties as home bases and cites his Washington connections with national figures from the South, suggesting he could gain notable prestige. It asks Cobb to consider accepting.
A man asks a palm reader to scan his fate and mentions concern for his wife and an ice wagon. The palmist confirms the house is visible but not the ice man, only his wagon, revealing a humorous street exchange.
A teacher asks a new pupil for his name. The boy replies Jule, then corrected to Jullius, prompting laughter from older students. The next day a new pupil gives the name Bill and explains he would be called Bilious.
Jones and Smith trade quips about biting into an apple and encountering a worm joke about half a worm adding humor to the exchange.
A quirky Philadelphia Record snippet shows Willie and Billy trading barbs about a birthday party. A grocer pressures a customer over apples offering a dollar in trade while the woman asserts she buys groceries from Kansas City. The clash highlights city folk dialogue and everyday commerce.
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