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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
16
In a fragmentary Washington Star remark, a “positive woman” jokes that all single men should pay a special tax, while Misa Cayenne counters that dodging matrimony would be as easy as dodging taxes, highlighting comic social critique of singledom and duty.
The piece surveys India's religious landscape from Buddhists in the east and northwest Muslims to Hindus in the center and Christians in the south, highlighting regional diversity. It weaves in quotes about seizing the present, urging disciplined daily habits and religious reflection.
The text notes Manila hemp fiber ranging six to twelve feet, commonly reaching eighteen feet. It claims the fiber possesses greater tensile strength than any other fiber the writer knows.
A playful fragment notes Miss Sweetthing dancing with oceanlike ease and a light step. The piece carries a lively, rhymed cadence and vivid imagery, capturing a performer’s grace and charm in a brief column from the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
A sailor recounts burning the Julia Sturdevant off the China coast after piracy seized the vessel. Only five crew members were saved, kept aboard to man the captured ship, while others were slain or killed as the pirate raid unfolded. He admits moral guilt, explaining his later deception to escape by claiming the ship burned at sea and that the five survivors fled in a boat to seek a passing Yankee vessel for rescue.
The text recalls Dr Johnson as a prodigious tea drinker and eater, claiming he drank thirty or forty cups of tea during an oventapy and lived to an old age. It also cites Charles Reade as a renowned feeder, noting his meals at the Garrick club and his penchant for elaborate courses and curious drinks.
John Burroughs writes in Harper's magazine that bird life is a constant struggle where the feeble quickly drop out. He notes a natural life of eight to ten years for small birds but few reach it, with most bodies showing violence from predators.
The text advises a measured approach to anger delaying impulsive reactions and forming correct judgment. It urges slow belief, emphasizing caution with secondhand claims, careful witness assessment, and hearing both sides before judging, drawing from Seneca on temperance and fairness.
A Welsh rock chamber near St Gowan’s chapel houses a cavity known as the expanding stone. Legend says the stone grows to fit any entrant and grants the wish they make while not changing their wish during a turn inside, with roots in pagan persecutions and tales quoted from The Magic of Jewels and Charms.
The article describes female sparrows as tyrannical toward mates during nest building, attacking husbands for laziness. It notes the female voice is louder and shriller, with hens pecking and tousling their mates until they retreat. It adds that we black birds and thrushes are often overbearing toward mates during house construction.
The Zulu practice allows a woman to seek marriage when suitors lag. She leaves home with a female companion to visit her chosen swain. If he approves, his parents welcome her as future bride. if not, he gives her a handsome gift instead.
The Greeks made a linen or woolen cuirass that resisted darts and spears. This secret of manufacture remains undiscovered today as scholars note it could not be reproduced.
A wry exchange features a shopper taunting the seller with four dollar shoes and the salesman replying that the price is two dollars a foot. The bite of street humor reflects clever banter in a quick quip.
A short witty exchange features Lehigh Burr joking about ear piercing with the line I say your ears have never been pierced. No but theyre being bored. The quip plays on wordplay and local humor.
A short reflective piece contrasting the bitterness of idle chagrins with the sickening ease of excess. Attributed to Ruskin, it laments the moral corrosion found in leisure and unearned abundance.
Laundry marks vary by country from red thread initials in Britain to stamped names in France and Bavarian numbers. Germany uses labels, Bulgaria employs engraved marks, and Russia ties linen with thread designs. In some Russian towns police regulate marks to trace criminals and agitators.
The bulldog rarely barks and fights with heavy breathing, showing astonishing courage when threatened. He seldom initiates street brawls, is well nurtured, and requires much to provoke him. Modern bulldogs differ from bullfighting ancestors with larger head, wider chest, heavier bone, and a fuller tail.
The piece describes an ancient Peruvians belief about the afterlife where the disembodied soul meets two rocks after death. Resting on the left rock grants oblivion akin to Nirvana, while the right rock subjects the soul to a long purgatorial torment where flesh is grated from bones for about 10,000 years before rebirth.
The piece notes the ancient soap presence in Pompeii, then traces the 19th century rise in understanding soapmaking. It highlights how soap byproducts, especially glycerin, shifted from little profit to vital roles in explosives and pharmaceuticals, per the London Spectator.
A passage from the Love Letters of Prince Bismarck urges resolute living under faith in God. It extols digging in, charging through life like a wild horse, facing grief with dignity, and bearing sorrow with submission and hope, even as parting from loved ones is inevitable.
A Pall Mall Gazette note recounts King Marko as Serbia’s legendary figure akin to King Arthur. Son of Vukashin, he clashes with Urosh and endures a cursed immortality, while legends claim the sultan feared his wrath and that Marko may return to restore former empire glory.
The London Chronicle describes the Athenian liturgy as a public duty by wealthy citizens. It ranged from chorus provision for tragedies to warship upkeep. Though a tax, it was sometimes evaded, yet in Athens wealthier citizens often volunteered beyond the law to gain public esteem.
A London Answers note describes a chemist awakened by a bell at night. A calm man asks for a bottle of soda water and the chemist charges twopence extra with refund on return. Two hours later the bell rings again. the man returns for his twopence and the bottle.
Experiments at Bell Rock and Skerryvore lighthouses show German breakers weigh about 1.5 tons per square foot while Atlantic breakers reach about 3 tons per square foot. In a heavy gale, granite blocks at Plymouth breakwater were hurled 200 feet up the inclined plane, one block weighing two tons.
The earth travels about 580 million miles per orbit in 8653 days and 6 hours, averaging 66,000 miles per hour. It wobbles like a top kept from upright, with a full wobble cycle lasting roughly 20,000 years.
The passage argues imagination separates man from brute and notes that happiness largely depends on the ability to forget. It claims no one devoid of imagination can fully know extreme happiness or misery and links memory with emotions.
A short exchange satirizes money troubles. Wilfer notes hard times and a man who cannot raise funds even on government bonds, then reveals the joke that the man lacked the bonds themselves. The joke hinges on a pun about having the bonds.
A substitute quip from the Louisville Courier Journal defines a picayune as a remark uttered by a man who claims indifference when he does not wish to use stronger language.
A Baltimore American sentiment remarks on cooking and family regard. The remark questions whether someone is treated as family, with a humorous reply that denies such placement and adds a light, clipped social note.
Ascension Island in the Atlantic belongs to Britain and operates without private land ownership rents or taxes. Flocks and meat are public, produce is rationed, and farming yields vegetables. Most residents are sailors, trades are common, and the climate allows wide cultivation. The 8 by 6 mile island has about 450 people, 250 miles north of St Helena, governed by a navy captain.
A Japanese traveler reports venomous Formosa snakes with umbrella shaped heads found in waters and ditches near kitchens. A maid startled by one, a bite to the thumb caused swelling, loss of sight and hearing, and the man died after seeking simple treatment. The incident highlights the danger of the magnasahebi.
A pond west of Promontory Point Utah fills with lake water at high levels and concentrates to brine in summer. Its deep pink hue, noted in salt ponds, results from concentration and microbial activity. The pink fades in winter or with fresh water input, per United States Geological Survey.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat discusses Aztec war aims and practices, noting ambush skill and the capture of tens of thousands of prisoners. It argues battles centered on securing captives for human sacrifice, framing the acts as religious rather than martial, and questions whether such people were truly humane.
The test for a field glass is not just letter size read across a street but whether it fits and steadies in a shirt pocket after a strenuous climb. If it won’t nestle in the pocket or shakes in hand while in motion, it is not the glass to buy. Outing dissects practical usability over brute power.
Herbert Russell recalls helping his father, W Clark Russell, finish The Death Ship based on Vanderdecken lore. He notes a morning dictation session followed by a letter from famed dramatist W Gilbert asking why a Flying Dutchman novel wasn’t written.
A long standing superstition claimed lamps could burn forever in tombs. Science rejects this, noting fire cannot persist in air exhausted chambers. A telescope sighting from Arequipa observes a small glow atop a distant disk from Mount Oharena, illustrating how optical effects can mislead.
In a candid line from Brown Fingers Magazine, Bobh Bunny laments being worn out while claiming to juggle a new marriage. The quirky exchange hints at evolving personal commitments and a restless creative life.
A compact clip presents two aphorisms: Fate of the couple’s children will be split, six months with each parent’s servants, and Cicero’s remark that any man may err, but a fool repeats it. The items resemble a newspaper’s aphoristic or literary brief.
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