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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1908
Page
7
A husband siezes on a cereal rewards plot selling Predigested Oats to win a free gilt boudoir clock. He and his wife chase letters spelling Prettyman’s while the office fills with oats and clutter. A lawyer reveals the scam’s flaw and the man avoids confession.
Elijah Norton of Dover runs a successful fox farm on a hillside near Piscataquis, Maine. He breeds red, blue, silver gray, and black foxes, using a high 16 foot wire fence and deep earthen kennels to simulate wild habitat. Norton has produced valuable black and silver gray stock through selective inbreeding and sells high price pelts, with black foxes fetching up to $1,200.
Washington picks Washington-Robert Bacon as ambassador to France with a term starting early next year. Bacon, Roosevelt’s tennis cabinet member and former assistant secretary of state, once effectively served as president for about 15 minutes during a constitutional transition.
The Spanish Trot statuette by Walter Winans features his horse Bugle March, a London horse show favorite and last year’s school horse winner. Winans, a prolific exhibitor, also shows The Little Mermaid at the Royal Academy, and previously won the Olympic world championship in shooting at the running deer event.
A storyteller recites a vivid tale of near disaster in Santiago with a listener drawn in by the suspense. He describes wolves in pursuit, the crowd fleeing and feeling the pack close with each ounce of fear till the threat seems imminent.
A humorous poem about Amos Brown famed for laziness. He calls his son Leander by shaking an oleander tree and keeps a dogwood tree at night for fear of burglars. A dying oak remains, as he refuses to cut it, jokingly hoping it will fall on its own next spring.
A collage of reflections contrasts a flamboyantly dressed “summer man” and a comical uncle with a bed-turned-bird quip. It pivots to a World War era quip about naval arms races, noting Missouri mules as a humorous counterpoint to battleships and missiles.
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