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Newspaper
Ferdinand News
Location
Ferdinand, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
3
Brady Townsend recounts a post revolutionary English sea chase and a castle feud. Lady Ellen Carrington flees with Deborah as Lord Strathgate pursues by ship while Carrington and Strathgate collide aboard Haight's cutter. The duel is halted by the captain as tensions rise.
Three ships and two small boats close in as Ellen’s fast cutter gains on the Great ship. Carrington eyes Ellen hoping she is his wife, while Strathgate’s crew keeps distance, awaiting a decisive opportunistic turn in the harbor pursuit.
In Fall River at St Stanislaus church Angela Pawlow, daughter of a local merchant, halted her wedding to Basyl Malinski who claimed Polish nobility and Russia estate ownership. Despite a crowded church, the bride proclaimed the groom unfaithful and refused to marry. The startled audience and officials soon cleared the building.
The dialogue features Mrs A confessing that she finds it profitable to discipline her husband with a dressing down, noting she gave him one today. Mrs Z asks how it yields profit, and the exchange hints at domestic leverage and humorous social observations.
Pattern details for a dressy shirt waist in messaline silk voile chiffon cloth or sarah silk with wide front and shoulder tucks and center back fastening. Describes yoke cum-back cuffs hand embroidery, shield undersleeves, sleeve options seven-eighths or three-quarter length, size range 22 to 44 inches bust, yardage for various widths, and 10 cent price via Pattern Department with required name and address.
Paris Pattern No 261 offers a simple all seams coat in tan Venetian cloth with black soutache trim and satin buttons. Straight hang from shoulders, side seams slit, black silk stitching, gathered sleeves, pointed patch pockets toward the front. Send 19 cents to Pattern Department of this paper. Indignant Pussy and cat anecdote conclude the page.
In a Chicago hotel smoking room aeronauts recount balloon legends. Captain Honeywell recalls Elyot's near seaborne voyage when a grapnel tethered a man ablaze with fear, lifted him above a hut, and carried him along while a mournful crowd listened to the eerie tale.
A Japanese letter in a German paper outlines shogi as a strategic game. It compares shogi to chess but notes 20 pieces per side and arrows on pieces signaling movement. Captured pieces join the captor, and entering enemy territory strengthens a piece by turning it over. The letter emphasizes accessibility of the game's rudiments and its popularity.
A waiter misreads a French dish as Eminence of turkey causing a tense moment. The customer clarifies by pointing to the exact menu item, and the waiter sighs relief and confirms Eminence of turkey as the dish. The exchange plays on language and pronunciation.
The ides act as a brake on the rotating earth lengthening the day by a minute amount. Such effect is tiny and beyond human time scales. W D MacMillan uses engineering formulas and available data to estimate the day lengthen by one second per 460000 years.
A Cornwall Farm Land Co. page promotes a North Florida Fruit and Truck Farms tract at Hillard near Jacksonville. It invites Ohio Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee men to visit on November 17 or 24, with railroad fare credited toward a 10 acre farm at 210 dollars, 21 dollars an acre, payable 10 dollars monthly. Land is described as best for vegetables, near the Atlantic Coast Line, and leading to Florida price trends.
A brief humorous exchange notes the quip about leaving a horse trade with a polished horse and a clear conscience. The line contrasts a clean conscience with the desirability of a better horse, attributed to the Houston Pest.
An exchange contrasts the saying that death heals family rifts with a sharp remark that reading a will reopens them. The item reflects a Detroit Free Press line about lingering family tensions.
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