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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1900
Page
5
A traveler recalls a western frontier town where four men duel at the corners of an imaginary square. A stray bullet nearly hits him, he shoots one, the others flee, and the town honors the skilled shooter with awe. The teller ends with the line that the town then treated him as a swamp.
A story from Saturday Evening Post recalls Jowett of Oxford inviting a student for long walks. The pupil gains courage with each remark, while Jowett playfully refutes, until the student learns to question and the conversation finally flourishes.
The Washington Post recounts a traveling actress famed for shoes who never travels without shoe trees. On a westward tour a Pullman night near Butte woke her to a porter’s startled reveal. She requested the trees be placed under the berth, prompting a humorous misunderstanding about feet.
A conjurer’s egg trick goes wrong when his confederate returns a rooster instead of a hen. The bird struts and crows, the audience roars with laughter, and the performer makes a hasty retreat to his dressing room.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quotation ponders the term professor. Miss Cayenne notes the label often marks a man who knows more than others or one who won’t work, reflecting on the ambiguous usage of the title.
A Baltimore News item notes a grandmother's will directing executors to collect loans she had made the reader. The fragment suggests accounting for informal debts within the estate.
A reflective nugget from the Chicago News notes the irony of vigilance against foes while loyal companions often gain advantage, suggesting caution in judging loyalties and opportunities.
An angel is described as a being capable of observing someone poking a fire without offering suggestions. The remark appears in a concise, quotational style from an Indianapolis journal snippet.
A discussion on how taste guides digestion and appetite. It argues taste should regulate intake, favoring nitrogenous foods when needed, warns against perverted cravings from improper education of the palate, and condemns excessive salt use and stimulants. It cites Dr Kellogg and Professor Bunge on salt limits. Marie Antoinette Necklace anecdote follows.
An elderly farmer dining in a Memphis cafe samples dishes from the top of the menu and works down about one third. He asks to skip from one section to the bottom, marking his progress with his finger as he contemplates what remains before him.
W J Stillman recalls a trip to Coney Island where ayoung thrill of seeing the sea triggered a wild frenzy as he grabbed the whip and lashed the horse. He describes the ecstatic plunge into the breakers and a lifelong love of the sea tempered by that first overpowering moment.
In a Clapham clergy meeting the bishop recalls a forgotten long-time diocesan doctor. He jokingly asks about the doctor’s gray mare, then reveals he remembered only the horse’s sex from its gray hairs. The anecdote comes from Kegan Paul’s Memoirs.
A curious dialogue unfolds as a persistent inquirer records a telephone exchange. A voice insists on the name Watt while another corrects to Knott, then William Knott, leading to a frustrated end as the caller suspects a mix up. The piece showcases playful misidentification and misunderstandings in a city paper clipping from Kansas City.
Bobby Meade seeks more humane Malta executions. Marwood advocates the long drop and describes his method, recounting a case of Mr Peace who reportedly passed quickly with a six foot drop, as noted in That Reminds Me.
The Chicago Post quotes a man saying it was a drawn battle after discussing the matter with his wife. A 6 year old listener asks in a quiet moment what they drew it with, illustrating a curious family exchange.
An unsophisticated visitor derides a painting calling it wretched while a stranger deflects the accusation, saying they are not the painter. The exchange underscores a cold iconoclastic era and shifts in literary etiquette from old precedents.
A jeweler quotes a novelty response in Jewelers' Weekly as a woman notes her husband cannot obtain spectacles. a $5 cent piece appears larger to him than a $5 bank note to others, illustrating his visual defect.
Laurence Gronlund, noted socialistic writer who died in New York, was a blunt pessimist. After a harsh critique of the modern industrial system a friend asked if Russian despotism was worse. Gronlund replied that the former is the worst possible, the latter the worst conceivable.
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