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Newspaper
Emmetsburg Democrat
Location
Emmetsburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1914
Page
4
Last Tuesday a Friday club contest ended with the defeated side entertaining the winners. A mysterious walk led guests to Mrs Krieger’s home for refreshments, as Mrs Case praised the senior member’s charm. The event concluded with jubilant notes that the losers paid the debt satisfactorily.
A cropped, quirky pastiche lists lines from Cincinnati Enquirer Chicago Record-Herald Houston Post and Yonkers Statesman about eggs best sellers germs in kisses and Reno marriages. The excerpt hints at light social humor and era tone with misspellings and clipped quips.
A set of brief squibs and poems from various papers. It includes McCarthy debating prayer during war with Casey, a doggerel about a timid husband and a prodding wife, a cat fearing his master, and a line of pride before the fall of a Ming enemy.
The Washington Star reports a baker’s odd practice where wedding cakes are rented rather than purchased. Cakes ordered for show are boxed for guests and reused, with icing refreshed between uses. A renter can earn about two dollars per wedding.
The text traces mixed bathing from ancient Rome under Hadrian Marcus Aurelius and Alexander Severus who banned bathnea mixta in Rome to later European attitudes. It notes fifteenth century Bohemian and Spanish travelers’ astonishment at Bruges Malines and Brussels. Spaniards compare mixed baths to church visits as innocent. Public baths like Swiss Baden scandalize Poggio Bracciolini.
Nellie vents anger over finding two bad eggs in the kitchen. Jim Fletcher’s store is blamed for bad stock while her husband urges calm. The exchange ends with a wry remark about the eggs’ long bad streak and attempts at goodness.
A London Strand Magazine reader describes freezing water in a garden saucer that developed a top ice skin within ten minutes and later formed a tall central ice pillar with a string of air bubbles rising through it. No external dripping source was found to explain the tube.
A brief stage dialogue depicts a lady reproaching a tramp for returning after a prior ban. The tramp apologizes, claiming his secretary overlooked his name on the visiting list and asks for pardon.
A Louisville Courier Journal quip recalls a couplet about a silent handhold during a film. One character insists she held his hand all through the show, only to be surprised when the other denies it. The playful line captures social timing and affectionate banter.
A fragment from the Philadelphia Record mocks male jealousy by noting women kiss each other to provoke men. It uses sly humor about gender norms and social teasing in a mid-century voice.
Brass dies for printing on wood show longevity with proper care, capable of more than 20000 impressions before wear. The message urges perseverance, suggesting brighter results on darker days for those who pursue excellence.
In a western summer a group of four men at a hotel dine alone. A waitress, revealed as a society girl, captivates a young man who pretends to be a cowboy. He confesses their prior meeting at a ball and a cotillion, then they swap identities. They decide to co author a book about their waitress and cowboy lives, leading to a published joint work the following spring.
In the morning, three scenes show a white suit going to cleaners, a request to dye it black, and a package returned after the dyeing mix up. The sequence ends with an Indianapolis News note.
A London Chronicle account notes geographic variation in Sabbath practice across Scotland. In the Highlands Sunday routines included cattle drives and market, cooking, fishing, and games, with modest church records warning against casual behavior. In the Lowlands the assembly imposed stricter rules forbidding voyages and ship movements on the Sabbath, with fines for Aberdonian worship nonattendance and household neglect.
The Tennyson family produced many poets across generations with Alexander Japp noting all male members wrote verse. Lionel and Hallam contributed anonymously to Macmillan's Magazine, while samples from the era appear in Poets and Poetry of the Century.
A long anecdote from Thackeray recounts a thrifty, kind king who would knight a boy met with the king and queen at Kew. A beef eater’s child refuses to kneel to kiss the queen’s hand to preserve his new breeches, turning a royal moment into a playful moral.
An elderly woman aboard a railroad train sits content with a window view as passengers react to a ringing electric bell. She calmly uses a pocket alarm clock to time her medicine, taking a spoonful and remarking that the clock is a handy reminder to take doses every two hours.
A Washington note records a conversation about past compliments before marriage. The exchange references someone being "as pretty as a picture" and remarks on the abundance of handsome postcards.
In a curiously phrased report, railway collisions raise questions about how some passengers manage to escape harm. The text also notes Persian stamps featuring the lion and the sun as symbols of ancient sun worship and power.
Boston Transcript notes a remark about a stock market tip given by Rawson. The tip allegedly caused the reader to lose balance, reflecting the era's cautious view of insider guidance and its personal impact.
A first person escape tale set during the Madero-Huerta transition. A U.S. citizen walked toward Vera Cruz with a shy Mexican boy who seeks safe passage to the United States. On the ship they meet a girl in disguise who later reveals her brother was killed during the escape attempt.
A fragment from a German paper's business notices shows a love note masquerading as an ad. The writer asks a beloved to meet at a street corner near a store selling men’s clothes, promising a rendezvous at 10 o’clock and hoping for forgiveness and attendance.
A Chicago Inter Ocean excerpt notes a curate seeks a medical certificate for a groom’s cold before a wedding. The doctor counters that tears and watery eyes are obvious symptoms. The joke hinges on the groom’s need to appear steadfast while bridesmaids sob and brides cry, yet the groom must stay dry eyed.
The cigar salesman, garbed solemnly, notes that men resemble cigars with visible wrappers concealing inner filler. He cautions that showy exterior may hide flaws, while some rough types bring real substance and cheer. He concludes all men, like cigars, end in ashes.
A Westminster Gazette item recalls a comic scene outside the Athenaeum Club where a suffragan bishop sees a taxi misdirect another bishop and a cabman, mistaken fare leads to a mix up. The event ends with the original bishop accepting the wind tempered to the shorn lamb.
A Dorothy fashion of Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes on castles in the air. The text contrasts airy dreams with sustaining mental force and daily labor to turn imagination into tangible reality.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer snappy item mocks a man’s fashion choice at a social scene. Witty chatter notes his strange necktie and suggests his wife would disapprove. A quick quip hints at the wearer’s social missteps amid light gossip.
In Tarper's Weekly a vehicle salesman boasts the car is so built it can’t turn turtle. Jisks retorts that at the price it ought not turn anything short of diamond backed terrapin. The quip underscores the humorous take on durability and value.
The fragment mentions Gabe and Steve discussing a doctor’s car in front of a house and a bill collection. It includes a quotation about the intellect of the wise and a citation to the Cincinnati Enquirer. The text resembles a clipped dialogue with no clear事件 or outcome.
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