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Newspaper
Francesville Tribune
Location
Francesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1908
Page
4
A description of the Venezuelan giant anteater, a two and a half foot body with a seven foot length including tail. It has a long snout and a unique edentate mouth, feeding on termites with a whip like tongue. In captivity it eats bread and milk.
An old friend recalls Blackmore the novelist as kind to animals and birds. Dogs loved him and pigeons followed him. A blackbird once nested in his garden and he built a wooden ladder to rescue the young, who repaid him with strawberries.
A profile of Captain John Manly, famed for Revolutionary War privateering. It recounts his capture of the Cumberland in 1779, daring prison escape in Barbados, leadership of the Jason, skirmishes with the British fleet, mutinies, captures of the Hazard and Adventurer, pursuit of merchant fleets near New England, and ultimate exchange in 1782 to command the Trague before blockade at Martinique until peace.
A teacher explains the origin of ambidextrous from ambo and dexter and notes two Latin meanings. Students, including Tommy Jones and Bobby Smith, share anecdotes about relatives who use both hands for typing and spanking.
Mr Brown and his old school friend Mr Ray wait on the piazza for the station carriage with a 24 hours guest. Ray calls the place a good little spot though a bit bare, while Brown hopes the trees and shrubs will grow so the place changes on the next visit.
A Washington supper tale features a senator's wife paying back a five dollar coin with a new coin given by a kind young man. The anecdote, from the New York Press, ends with the woman discovering the coin mishap and the husband mocking the situation as a skin game.
The text explains how Colbert promoted lace making in France while Venetians tried to block craftsmen. It notes that French points de France matched Venise, and describes how English merchants smuggled Brussels lace as points d Angleterre after England banned foreign lace in 1602 to meet Charles II's court demand.
A London property owner who struggles to collect rents runs into a backward tenant at a cricket ground. The tenant excuses nonpayment by claiming he sold a hack for firewood and had only just started work, provoking the landlord’s anger in public.
Mayo asserts in System of Rhetoric that speakers should avoid strange inkhorn terms and speak as common readers do. He criticizes scholars who chase outlandish English and risk losing their mothers tongue, contending even living fathers of language could be misunderstood.
King James the Duke of York once accepted a challenge at the Scottish court with an Edinburgh shoemaker named John Paterson as his partner. They won the match and Paterson earned half the stake, later boasting a house in Canongate marked by the record.
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