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Newspaper
Fayetteville News
Location
Fayetteville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1900
Page
1
A garbled late 19th century prose piece mocks neologisms and public figures. It mentions Governor Llewellyn Powers of Maine, a new dictionary entry incircumporiptibleneas, Boston police, artist Munkacsy, London earldoms, a Poulet title, and car slang bubbling automobubbia. The tone mocks contemporary language and social quirks with a parade of oddities.
A Towa man proposed to a young woman who accepted but later declined marriage after noting her hair was late. She sued for breach of promise. on the stand she admitted wearing a wig and was non-suited on grounds she had won the suitor’s affections under taleo pretoncos.
A passage cites Professor David Starr Jordan in the New York Independent on life and liberty, arguing that as long as a person lives and stays free, he will seek pleasure. It contends that merely chasing happiness can be dangerous, and true happiness rests on abundance of life that cannot be faked.
A new procedures reform ends secrecy and adopts American style public trials in the islands. All residents are tried before ordinary tribunals with American evidence rules. The text lauds the republic’s 113 years and the virtues of its plain people and governance, noting prosperity but warning of potential ills.
Puck questions whether a nation that pays little for much is richer or poorer and whether reintroducing the half-cent, once a bargain, signals prosperity or unnecessary constraint amid shifting needs. The proposal divides opinion on national coinage and cost of living.
A dense, archaic lyric passage evokes longing and nocturnal musings on love. The speaker envisions distant windows and fading laughter, pledging faithful dreaming as dawn nears. Shadowed imagery of roses, red thorns, and night’s chill underscores a yearning for reunion.
Nell, returning rich after Uncle Waldemar’s death, plans a glamorous life with Bob while he introduces his fiancée and their upcoming marriage. Nell agrees to be the first bridesmaid but reveals she must leave town soon, sparking a quiet ache about a future she cannot join.
Nell and Bob discuss the past and future adventures as a tale ends. Sid watches, Kitty comforts herself with a pet, and the friends reflect on old times and imagined journeys.
A compendium of items cites steel wool as a sandpaper substitute with varying coarseness and uses, plus a coarse steel shavings product for stripping paint. It also discusses Mulhall’s energy calculations, a British silver seal, Moro trousers, watercress farming, New York boundary monuments, Balzac portrait analysis, and other curious items from a period journal.
A mosaic of industrial notes describes glue and sizing demands across industries, with Chicago and Peabody as centers for low and high grade glue respectively. It notes rising glue stock prices since 1893, and uses for packaging, furniture, and newspaper ink. A broader poem reflects on blessings, luck, and social perception amid life's trials.
A collection of aphorisms on honesty, self improvement, and restraint, urging truthfulness, mindful study, and temper in anger. Anecdotes reflect on memory and virtue, concluding with a cautionary tale about a Harvard graduate who kept a father’s vow but faced stock losses after a bank wreck.
A collage of humorous exchanges and a streetcar purse incident. Jokes touch on editors, speakers, beauty experts, and domestic quirks. A Detroit News item recounts a rider chasing a purse after a city hall stop, with a streetwise bystander noting the owner declined the pocketbook.
The German Emperor is described fraternizing with soldiers during inspections. He asks a young recruit named Andree about his name and learns his captain had told him of a distinguished namesake who once went to the North Pole in a balloon and wished he had gone along.
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