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Newspaper
Galveston Leader
Location
Galveston, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1911
Page
7
A humorous family vignette from Youth’s Companion about Aunt Melissa Spigott who talks constantly and her husband Silas who stays silent for days after a quarrel about sugar and coffee. The piece notes the puzzled mother and daughter as they realize the husband has been fuming for three days.
The colonial garden, a traditional flower plot linked to our colonial era before the Revolutionary War, has long graced the White House. Mrs Roosevelt laid it out south of the mansion near her private rooms and Mrs Taft expanded and improved it after becoming First Lady.
The article describes Virginia's colonial gardens as informal yet richly styled with box hedge borders, terraces, summer houses, and sundials. It notes enduring features like long surviving box hedges, stately trees, and historic plantings at Mount Vernon and White House grounds, reflecting wealth and hospitality across generations.
A brief comic exchange reveals a plan to send a kitten to keep someone company as they prepare to move. The dialogue highlights warmth and a casual farewell as the move approaches.
A Boston exhibition features a bread loaf baked in Paris during the siege. Memoirist Emile Bergerat recalls extreme famine with mouse ration months and a bread rumored to be forged from unlikely materials. Scientific experts doubted any preservable recipe survived.
A simple system shows Brown gaining esteem as a weather prophet due to his persistent optimism. He predicts rain during droughts and declares clearing weather when rain falls, attracting attention for his contrarian yet confident outlook.
Gustave Bauman of Hayton Wisconsin, adopted at three by Henry Nauman, grew into a remarkable Latinist despite no formal schooling. He speaks and writes Latin fluently, knows German conversationally, and has never ridden a train or used a telephone, living in a self described village of aloofness from modern life.
A Gutenberg Bible from the Robert Esloe collection sold in New York City for 50950 to Henry FEO Fluntinytan, nephew of the late Collis P. Phinnington. The volume, dated between 1450 and 1455, is one of only about thirty four copies known. It features red headings for Genesis and St Jerome epistle, vellum pages, and lavish illuminations, with two leaves missing as the only noted defects.
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