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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1910
Page
4
An account describes driver ants as vast, disciplined colonies that consume fatty matter and terrorize people and animals. Fire is the only effective counter, with torches forcing the marching columns to scatter, though nights of siege and illness follow.
Jade has long held sacred status in China Spain and Mexico with beliefs that it wards off disease confers supernatural powers and marks sacred artifacts. Emperors summon artisans to shape large finds under year long public scrutiny while New Zealand supplies much of today’s jade with warlike talismans and heirloom weapons prized by eastern soldiers.
An elderly minister returned to his alma mater after forty years of service. He lamented the same old corridors as he entered, remarking on the familiar passageways and the old surroundings of the campus.
The article recounts Annie Laurie, daughter of Sir Robert Laurie of Maxwelton, and the famed song written by William Douglas during his unrequited love for her. A ball in Edinburgh sparked Douglas's passion, blocked by his father and political troubles forcing his exile, ending only with the song. He later found Annie married to another, and he married Elizabeth Clark of Glenborg becoming a father.
Noted individuals praised for memory skills include Milton who could repeat Homer Professor Lawson who claimed to recite the Bible in full save a few verses Lord Macaulay who boasted of recalling Pilgrim's Progress and Paradise Lost Dr Lerden friend of Sir Walter Scott who could repeat an act of Parliament after hearing it read once and a London reporter who could write a debate verbatim without notes Henry Clay unable to memorize a stanza but never forgetting a name face or argument
A Bengal lancer captain on a country walk in Rajputana faces a tiger on a cliff ledge. The beast seizes his coat and shakes him over a deep chasm. The tiger retreats sneezing after knocking the captain unconscious, leaving him alive as the snuffbox spills its contents in the attack. Reprisal comes when a witty ballroom flirtation turns to sharp wordplay at a later ball.
A Youth's Companion style article advises against relying on cold plunges alone. It emphasizes thorough cleansing by warm water soap and vigorous brushing to clear skin pores and remove daily skin scales, noting dry rubbing as a substitute when bathing is impossible.
An awkward man knocks down an umbrella and breaks it as a car starts. A woman remarks it is of no consequence while the man apologizes. His acquaintance identifies the owner as a wife who has urged a new umbrella for a month. The exchange ends with a comic awkwardness.
In Cey lon mountains a gigantic spider spins bright yellow webs five to eight feet across using ten to twenty five foot supports. Natives weave the nets into mats and screens. A London Tit Bits anecdote recalls Rev Mr W witty remark after a sharper's joke about sermons.
A great lady defines the distinction for Napoleon III shortly before he seized the French throne. If you fell into the Seine and were rescued, that would be an accident. if you remained drowned, that would be a misfortune.
Partial OCR shows cash on hand at start of school year July 1909 and receipts from state tuition fund apportionment, county union fund, and district taxes. Details are garbled with numbers and unclear totals, but indicate year’s financial entries and tax collection activity for the district.
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