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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
4
Local retailer L. W. Habbell & Sons touts the Grain King Scoop Board as the best and most adjustable sod board on the market and urges customers to inspect and compare prices.
St Joseph county plans a local option vote as Lamphere trial ends. The piece notes the Gunness farm murder case and recalls a retired farmer losing 3000 dollars in an Indianapolis scam while James E Watson returns to law defending seven white-capping defendants.
Congressman-elect H. A. Barnhart has leased his Rochester newspaper plant and cut other local business ties to avoid conflicts of interest with duties in Washington.
After the election, reform advocates in politics appear to recover and push forward. In Ohio, prior to the general election, most county local options rejected the temperance candidate for governor, prompting reflection on shifting political dynamics.
The writer notes how people insult and praise with dog imagery, contrasting a dog's loyalty with human ingratitude. He observes that in horse racing the term dogs marks the worthless, while humans often fail to honor dogs' steadfast nature.
An article lists major Shakespearean roles by lines spoken, noting Hamlet leads with 1469 lines and Richard III follows with 1161, while Iago has 1117 and Henry V 1063. It also covers female roles such as Rosalind and Cleopatra, and mentions shorter parts like Lady Macbeth. A separate lint story describes two asylum inmates planning an escape.
Charles Hoyt tells a tale about a friend declining to see a theater piece because of an actor. Hart toys with the idea by noting the friend would enjoy the show only if the actor is hanged in the finale. The exchange ends with a sly suggestion of the dramatic fate.
The poet Landor, famed for violence and sensitivity, kept Florence gardens full of flowers. After a spoiled dinner, he cast his cook from a window into a bed of roses, then cried upon seeing the state of the roses, saying he forgot them.
In a brief humorous vignette a nephew asks what the unbeautiful spinster is thinking. She reveals she is judging her figure in the mirror. The boy notices her wry face and implies his guess.
A humorous tale unfolds as a man and his wife negotiate with a Lakota trader who keeps raising offers of ponies, squaws, and a papoose to trade for the wife. Witnesses, a lieutenant, and fear of breach shape the uneasy barter and its conclusion.
The passage notes sparrows appearing in classical and early modern literature. It cites Catullus and Plautus references and Pepys diary lines describing a tame sparrow kept by a mercer, illustrating sparrow affection as a recurring motif in different eras.
The cadet program expands from marching to field engineering, signaling, mapmaking, and live artillery practice. Cadets learn electnes, ordnance construction, chemistry, mathematics, and languages while building character and disciplined citizen soldiers under Corps traditions of honor and fair play.
A specialist explains memory can mislead and provoke fears in sensitive people. He cites a woman who felt familiarity in unknown places and recalls how readings or conversations can trigger distant verbatim memories. The discussion suggests memory stores countless impressions that surface when prompted by a related image or scene.
In the summer of 1901 ex-Speaker Reed, while waiting for a train in Portsmouth New Hampshire, sought a collar and visited three shops ending up in a harness shop after clerks noted no collars that large.
A late girl named Ethel feels mournful at an unfinished turkey plate. Uncle John asks what’s wrong and she explains she is more than full, prompting widespread amusement among the others in the Stray Stories scene.
A man boasts about a bold burglary at his home as his dog stands by in the dining room and the mantel clock is stolen along with silver. The friend shrugs noting the thief was bold but the dog merely a watchdog.
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