13 Apr 1900
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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1900
Page
1
The piece surveys intercollegiate sports finances, American labor in Russia, and fire hazards from cleaning fluids. It notes West and East economic parity, a Siamese twins exhibit controversy, and innovation in mortgage insurance via merchant debt. It also reports postage stamp offic e engraving plans and criticizes rude behavior in urban life.
The poem portrays a blue bullet boasting of its deadly path in war. It mocks roundshot and shell while claiming stealthy reach, cutting through muscle bone and heart. It taunts Red Cross nurses and asks whether shot or shell won the day in the end.
In Michigan woods during the Civil War era the Driscoll family discovers sap theft from their maple sugar bush. They stake out the area with the Babbit brothers and, after a tense confrontation, shoot at a moose that charges them. The Babbits reveal they tailed the Driscolls’ thieves and trap them. the moose attack ends with the Babbits capturing the culprits and sharing venison at a village dinner.
The article cites Dr John Haddon of Hawick and John W King of Clerkenwell as men who abstain from drinking water. Haddon claims a strict vegetarian diet provides enough fluids via tea and fruit and aids travel. King says he has not drunk water since the London cholera outbreak and has abstained for fifteen to twenty years.
Two small boys in mufflers wander with a penny and share a ginger cake with a gray horse, retreating when the creature’s teeth prove weak. The scene contrasts tender bravery with a street’s indifferent cold, echoing across cultural notes on bagpipes and Highland valor.
The Yarmouth fishery sent 141585 barrels of herrings worldwide last year, from New York to Jericho, surpassing the previous year by 100000 barrels. Yarmouth also landed 340140000 herrings this season, while London exports stamp about seventy thousand tons of rice annually, a quantity ripe for doubling.
A Philadelphia Inquirer item recounts a West Philadelphia woman who, while her traveling husband slept, rifled his suit for change and found a bundle of unused railroad tickets. She kept the tickets and redeemed coupons totaling $3.32, saying she saved him the trouble of going to the redemption office.
A Bradford Era item notes a pupil's humorous describe for a summer sport as a man in white duck trousers and straw hat carrying a cane and a winter sport in fur and sealskin attire. The student received a poor mark. Also, wartime figures compare France Germany and Russia's population mobilization.
A collage of short comic exchanges and put-downs from early 20th century papers. Jokes touch on vegetarianism, slippers, music names, air science dreams, bachelor humor, author negotiations, ancestry, voice control, orphanage cries, domestic life, and a zebra definition as a football-suited donkey.
Four Santa Fe engineers recall a moonlit sprint from Topeka to Emporia with one claiming the shadow of the train met them at Emporia. A Baltimore man in London recounts Mr Choate telling a nobleman Depew belongs to the grand middle classes while noting forty five stars on the American flag.
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