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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1899
Page
8
A gymnast recalls how mastering a natural smile transformed his act. From acrobat beginnings at age one to training under Charles McDonald, he learned to control facial expressions, noting many performers struggle to smile correctly and end with an unconvincing grimace.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat recounts a remark about a trick that "appears and disappears on the principle of pulling nine strings" suggesting a stage illusion or mechanical display. The fragment hints at a illusionist or device discussed in the era's press.
A New York Times report quotes a woman denouncing mothers who overcontrol young boys on shopping district street cars. She labels it ethical cruelty, noting seven and eight year olds shoved into seats stifled and deprived of growing independence.
William Archer laments the spread of yeep and yap as substitutions for yes in American speech. He notes even educated speakers adopt yep and other corrupt forms, suggesting such variants undermine standard spelling and meaning.
The writer debates the grammar of somewheres and a long ways arguing the s may be an old case ending like o'nights from Shakespeare. He notes somewheres is a vulgarism in England but suggests educated Americans should drop the s as somewhere does not jar in America while somewheres jars there.
A doctor asks 4-year-old Gilbert to protrude his tongue. The boy cannot, saying it is fastened to him. He shows tears as he struggles, the doctor insisting on keeping the tongue out.
The passage urges slow reading paired with deep thinking, emphasizing listening over talking. It stresses that small amounts of reading plus contemplation yield wiser understanding and personal improvement.
A terse courtroom exchange references a theft case with the prisoner invoking silence as the judge presses about the jewelry. The fragment suggests a melodramatic line from a 20th century scene.
Dialogue reveals a humorous misread as a painting title. The artist explains the new work will depict a horse approaching a water trough, not a melodramatic scene of passion.
Mrs Clarence Burns, famed for helping the poor, recounts visiting a family living in a cold single room where children suffered hunger. The mother refused aid, saying the children had eaten that day and she would soon find work. Burns notes such scenes are common.
A prominent clergyman recalls a shrewd church member who offered a $10 plant stand as a donation, but insisted on giving only half. Faced with no alternative, the preacher accepted the reduced gift, highlighting thrift and generosity in a tight salary era.
A Philadelphia Press vignette recalls a street car scene where five young men fail to aid a stylish girl changing a large bill, ending with a rebuke from the baldheaded man. A second item recounts Major Sandbach’s death after a tiger bite during a hunter’s encounter in Somaliland and a related Indian tiger tale.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote reviews a woman's clash at a literary meeting after mistaking the Pope as the pope of Rome. The wife resigns from all clubs, and the story ends with the family resuming harmony as the children reconnect with their mother.
A New Hampshire man sought a telephone link between his home and a new summer residence for his son. He proposed running wires over an elderly woman’s roof and obtained her consent with a strict condition. She allowed the wires but asked they not be used after 9 PM due to her bedtime and light sleeping nature.
A Brisbane Review snippet shows a dialogue where a woman warns Arthur against cigarettes noting the minuscule costs. The man defends his habit as a bargain because tobacco delivers various compounds. A second gag has a lawyer boasting that heavy books are carried for judges, not in his head.
The firm Macmillan, prominent London booksellers, claims capacity for about 4,500,000 books in their spacious premises.
A description of Holland village women wearing stiff lace hoods over black skullcaps, with widows adding straw bonnets. They dress in dark blue jackets with cream breastpieces, and multiple skirts wrapped with flannels, a uniform style that has changed little for centuries.
St. Paul Globe notes that cities show higher infant mortality for boys under six months than for girls and that urban families are larger. It also cites more marriages and divorces per population, claims suppression of foreign populations, and predicts American cities will dominate in 26 years.
Amber occurs along the Prussian Baltic coast mainly in the Samland peninsula. All amber found is state property, but the state cannot seize amber without the landowner’s permission.
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