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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1907
Page
4
A humorous exchange unfolds as a speaker offers a book to Miss Scrib. The dialogue jokes about reading a book without cutting leaves and hints at an eye examination by an expert oculist. The witty banter plays on the word read and the idea of seeing.
A whimsy notes penguins’ odd habit of hatching eggs while standing, contrasting with other birds. It also tells of Margaret spelling words including doll pig and papa and a visitor puzzled by the pig question. Washington tar.
The Rev. Sir R Hicks 1908 Almanac is ready for delivery and surpasses prior editions in design and content. It features Hicks weather forecasts for the year, attractive half tones, and complete yearly predictions. Price 85 cents on the news stand 30 cents. Word and Works offers forecasts monthly with family reading. subscription $1 per year with an almanac included. Address Word and Works Publishing Co 2201 Locus Street St Louis Missouri. Agents wanted.
McClure's Magazine advertises opportunities for men women boys and girls to represent the publication. Good pay offered and applicants urged to apply at 67 East 23 Street New York City.
An advert for Golden Medical Discovery touts glycerine as a superior solvent and nutritive agent enhancing bitters like Black Cherry bark and Stone root. It asserts benefits for chronic coughs and lung issues and cites Prof. Finley Ellingwood on glycerine’s medicinal value and stomach relief.
The article surveys attitudes toward cats from ancient Egypt to modern Britain and Japan. It notes reverence in Egypt with a priestly role and cat feasts, tales of Cambyses, and a post office cat program in the United States, plus superstition in Wales and China’s use of china cats to scare mice. It ends with a Brooklyn Eagle attribution.
The passage describes apocalyptic beliefs: a comet will strike and fire the earth, rivers of molten metal will flow, purifying the wicked. The good are saved, the evil purified, and all rise on a new earth. similar notions appear in American Indian, Hindu, Egyptian, and Mesopotamian traditions with planetary alignments signaling flood or fire.
A detective notes no distinguishing marks for a runaway boy after examining a list from his father detailing worn trousers and various found items. The inventory includes a knife blade, fired cartridge, match, watch parts, leather thong, broken key, twine, white pebbles, lead piece, bicycle buttons, lead pencil, and chalk. The memo records no distinguishing marks.
The article credits King Alfred the Great with origin of the lantern. He sought windproof light by scraping cow horns into thin rims and attaching tin pieces to form a dim flickering glow. It mentions town watchmen and vintage rhymes sung at dawn and night.
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