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Newspaper
Durham Recorder
Location
Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1908
Page
4
Eminent doctors extol Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as the only medicine for mucous surface diseases and lingering coughs. The ad urges cleansing passages with Sage's Catarrh Remedy and lists numerous symptoms of weak stomach and biliousness cured by the Discovery.
A boy invented steam engine valve motion improving automatic operation after attaching a cord to a valve lever. A farmer’s son created the power loom using a jackknife, gaining backing from a blacksmith and later meeting the inventor of the loom at his own home.
In a late 19th century soiree the poet laureate Alfred Tennyson questions an American ambassador's daughter about knowledge of Walt Whitman. The girl confesses she does not know Whitman, prompting Tennyson to declare him the only man worth knowing in America before ending the conversation.
A lawyer questions a plainly dressed witness, a civil engineer, about his trade. The man declares he is a workman, hints that his principal tools are brains rather than shovels, and resists detailing implements in a sharp exchange.
The Olympic Games were founded about 1300 years before Christ in honor of Jupiter and revived in 884 B.C. They occurred every four years along the Alpheus near Olympia. Athletes competed in five forms of combat for a crown of wild olive or laurel, ending by Theodosius’s order in A.D. 304.
A biography of Alexander H. Stephens recounts a father taught manners through a Friday classroom routine. Students bow or greet, exchange polite inquiries, and stage parlor interactions to ease awkwardness. The exercises aim to remove shyness and fear of appearing ridiculous.
The article notes a plague of green flies in Calcutta during late autumn and early winter. Insects swarm around flame as lamps are dimmed and meals are taken by candlelight. Flies appear suddenly near street lamps, turning clear air to a misty drift that obscures light.
Lord Seaforth born deaf and dumb is to dine with Lord Melville. A finger-signing companion helps for reception. Lord Guilfort joins, mistakes makes the silent man converse. After ten minutes Lady Melville arrives and the ruse is revealed. The remark dumb prompts surprise and humor.
Evangeline frets about marriage while George jokes on the cost. A clergyman cousin offers to marry them for free, causing a lighthearted exchange that echoes a Liverpool Mercury tone. The scene captures quiet rural intimacy and playful cleverness in a domestic moment.
Anita visits her grandmother to describe a dog she saw. When asked its color she is puzzled then says the dog was “dog color.” The exchange plays on misperception and language.
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