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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1908
Page
4
In a burned wood era tale Dorothy Remsen decorates china flats across from Bert Grayce, a painter by day who moves furniture with a hopeful plan. A chance meeting over a dime tips a budding bond as gas strikes and moves loom, painting a future where love costs a life together.
A violet colored snail named vinthina crafts a raft like shell with air compartments to stay afloat while ships sink. It carries its eggs in a built in raft, uses a head generated air bubble to fill the chambers, and feeds on a jellyfish with a raft like form. Occasional specimens wash up on France's northwestern coast and emit violet dye when touched.
The Samlag system in Norway gave municipalities power to grant retail spirit licenses to a community bound company. It allowed a fixed annual return of up to 5 percent on paid up capital. Earlier license types faced no compensation for dispossessed license holders while privileged licenses received an annuity equal to average profits over three years.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at an archaic or garbled passage about springtime and tasks, possibly editorial or poetry. No clear persons, organizations, places, dates, or events are identifiable from readable segments. Further readable material needed for a concrete card.
In a letter to Hayne, Henry Timrod recounts dire fortunes after the war destruction of Columbia. He quips of selling furniture and silver to survive, noting he could discard his poetry for $100 in hand and admits he can write no more verse. He laments financial ruin and detachment from his existing work.
In a late scene from a Chicago News item a young man and a girl spar verbally over imagination. She breaks into a yawn and he jokes about arctic nights before the moment fades into somber mood as the scene ends.
A French chauffeur brings an imported machine to a repair shop where a mechanic grows curious about the Ingenigus speed indicator and its metric distance readings. The exchange shifts to whether only a Frenchman can read it, while the driver jokes the machine is run by an Irishman.
A Baltimore American quote humorously contrasts Mrs Chatterton with a machine, noting she lacks one detail the exhaust. The witty remark plays on speech and machinery to tease her vocal output.
In a witty exchange the Chicago Tribune notes a chef oversees cuisine while a cook handles the kitchen. A Paris museum project hires M. Pierre Hachet-Soupler to study psychology of domesticated and wild animals, aiming to map their emotions. A mention of Trasmabha and Chile’s lone post offices appears as stray notes.
A mining engineer known as Albert Parkinson testified in a frontier court about a deadly practical joke by miner Thomas Mason and aides Galloway and Tucker. Parkinson, whose hair appeared white from shock, claimed they taunted him by faking a dangerous blast. The judge sentenced Mason to three years and the two assistants to one year each for attempted homicide. Parkinson later grew rich in mining ventures and sought pardons, but the judge refused every time, citing the hair as a reminder of the treacherous incident.
A Philadelphia Press quip notes a girl is too young to go shopping alone and that she is impressionable. The exchange underscores concerns a young person may be easily drawn into buying something.
When the baby is cross and worried you will find that a little Casca sweet, the well known remedy for babies and children, will quiet the little one in a short time. Sold by Wm. F. Junng Kunz, druggist, 85 Stephenson St.
A Chambers Journal note describes dense fog over Spitzbergen with open ground and dramatic alpine scenery. An explorer reports ice spicules on cliff faces formed by fog, with horn frost up to eighteen inches extending horizontally from rock. Fog can persist for days, reducing visibility to a few yards.
The Bayansi people along the upper Kongo practice a heavy neck ring custom. Braas rods welded into rings around married women's necks weigh up to thirty pounds, a burden borne for life by these wives in the community.
An English speaker, warned that rural audiences lack culture, tries a lively chatty talk with anecdotes. After a flattering evening he remarks the talk suited them, only to be told it reminded a Quarterly Review article out for a talk.
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