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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
3
Drayton, a bachelor, is visited by a blue eyed five year old who declares she will marry him. He agrees to a blue white room and a rose filled home, promising to delay until more rooms are built, as she plans a rapid wedding and a full household.
The article recounts Julius Caesar's calendar reform making 46 B C a 445 day year to align lunar and solar cycles. It explains the Julian calendar rules, month name changes to July, and leap year adjustments under Augustus. It also notes eyebrow interpretations and a humorous San Francisco Call anecdote about Wu Ting Fang and a customs inspector.
The text argues arched brows reflect sensitivity not intellect and that eyebrow growth signals vitality loss. It Then suggests contrasting facial indicators with implied further explanation.
The process describes how straw is grown densely in Italy to yield thin, long stalks. Wheat blooms in early June and is uprooted by hand when half developed. Bundles of about five dozen stalks are bleached in summer dew, then sorted and cut into small bundles delivered to women in poor homes.
A North Scotland wife visits her husband condemned to hang the next day and asks where she will plant tatties this year. He snaps that he will not need any, while the warder is amused by her sly remark. The exchange reveals a grim, darkly humorous moment from the era.
Aeroplane Day at the Jamestown Exposition on September 14 features a thousand dollar flying machine contest for heavier-than-air craft. Israel Ludlow of the Exposition previews the initial list of entrants and notes his giant 40 by 25 foot aeroplane, with T. T. Love as navigator. The craft, on a pontoon, may be towed by a torpedo boat for testing on Hampton Roads near Lee’s Porsche grounds. The Scientific American trophy is valued at 1900 and open to global entrants, marking an annual new series of competitions governed by the Aero Club of America.
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