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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1900
Page
8
A doctor recalls rushing to a feverish child after a domestic warns of a 108 degree reading. The thermometer was misused with a hot poultice, and the family faces tragedy as the tiny patient Marjory fights for life.
In Meno Chile the author spots the term panqueque on hotel menus and suspects a wine or dessert. A morning experiment reveals panqueque is simply a plain griddle cake, clarifying the confusing term as a common food item.
The writer notes a misunderstanding where the term panqueque is treated as pancake. A head waiter, speaking good English and familiar with American cuisine, is astonished and implies he authored the menu. He asks the guest what Americans call a pancake, as reported by the Chicago Record correspondent.
Miss Jennie Lee the famous English actress plays Jo in Scotland during a harrowing death scene. The limelight man shouts in a Scotch whisper that the light is going out. She dies quickly to deliver a memorable speech to the stagehand.
The note recounts how Governor Benjamin F. Boriga created a Butler Bible as a humorous transmittal to his successor. He writes that a year earlier no Bible was in the executive chamber and a friend gave him the copy to pass along.
A brief dialogue shows a man dismissing luck and claiming lifelong effort yields results while his wife interjects with a prompt about last winter’s mumps. The exchange highlights a domestic moment and light humor.
A Philadelphia Press reader notes a woman obsessed with dress, contrasting her fixation with a funeral scene. The narrator recalls a mourner who died last week, yet the other woman immediately praises the clothes and clothing details she had seen at the funeral.
The Fredonia Citizen reports a man in that city too mean to advertise a land sale placed a written notice in a hotel. A seeker replied that he cannot buy land from a man who adverts himself, fearing theft of fences and pumps before possession.
The piece describes a shrapnel shell as a hollow elongated device with a base bursting charge and 200 to 600 half inch bullets. A time fuse delays the charge after firing, detonating at a set moment and sending a conical shower of bullets toward the ground.
A humorous dialogue exchanges between Mrs Peck and Henry about death and remarriage. Henry insists he would not marry again, while Mrs Peck suggests the idea might drive him to despair. The item appears as a light, satirical exchange from the Chicago News.
London Letter notes the Almanach de Gotha as the world’s most exclusive reference, where few entries include a portrait. The publication elevates top figures to rarefied status, marking their distinction with a distinctive scarlet-covered page.
Archaeologists uncovered a soap boiler shop in Pompeii. The well preserved soap, buried 1800 years ago, shows soap held efficacy despite long burial. The text notes soap use spanning 3000 years and its biblical mentions.
A humorous exchange from Brooklyn Life about church crowds after services. The Clergyman boasts of his audience lingering fifteen minutes, while The Sinner notes the difficulty of awakening some attendees.
Pills claim to revive blood and nerves solving disorders from locomotor ataxia to neuralgia and rheumatism. Sold in single packs or six for a discount, available at druggists or from Dr Williams Medicine Company in Schenectady New York.
The account recounts Colonel Laborde waking the duke before execution promising to forward letters if possible. The duke cuts hair, writes a note, asks for a confessor, and accepts death. Five soldiers refuse to fire and are shot. seventeen fire at the duke. Mme Bonaparte and Lucien Bonaparte try to intervene, but Napoleon remains resolved to kill the duke.
The Seabright summer stop of author John Luther Long leads to a dining room scene where a guest asks for his seat at table. He is introduced as Mr Long, and a young lady insists Dont read it referring to his work The Fox Woman. Quotations from the Washington Star and Saturday Evening Post accompany the anecdote.
A quoted wry note from the janitor philosopher in the Chicago News uses playful dialect to hint at a household drama. It suggests that a grocer’s boy will reveal motives by his posture, hinting at grudges or affairs within the house.
Willie Washington seeks conversation with a serious young woman whose mother surveys the scene in restrained approval. The exchange touches on literature from Shakespeare to Goethe as the girl asserts classic study over modern novels, prompting the mother to dismiss the suitor and order the servant to bring in the clothesline.
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