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Newspaper
Greeley Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1907
Page
9
A Chicago Tribune piece traces thieves cant to Irish tinkers and Romany Gypsies mixing with London roundsmen. It explains terms like bull for a plainclothes policeman toy for a watch and Bible for a pocketbook, noting cant evolves as criminals coin new terms and some enter general English usage.
A New York World excerpt argues that the single woman thrives in New York, free to shape happiness, while in Paris she is socially suspect for not marrying, in London she becomes a mother by proxy, and in smaller U.S. cities she faces lingering prejudice as the superfluous woman.
A young man repeatedly visits a girl named Florence who the maid says is unwell. The mother, newly rich and less educated, explains the daughter’s illness, prompting the man to apologize. She retorts by calling Florence delicate, then flips to declare she is the most indelicate girl ever seen.
A sad husband devises a ruse to fetch his wife back from a town visit. He mails her a set of local papers with one clipping missing and refuses to reveal which item was omitted. The plan succeeds as she returns within a week to uncover the withheld detail.
Eccentric bequests in early wills shaped future ownership. Quaker rules in Philadelphia restrict heights and back buildings. Virginia plantation legacy mandates annual family prayers and a sermon, memory of a daughter, enduring generations. A Pennsylvania lot required yearly rose offerings to the donor’s heir. England’s Middle Ages featured dole encumbrances like bacon, bread, fagots to various beneficiaries. A Smithfield house linked a gravestone tribute of sixpences on a martyrdom anniversary.
An actor with limited funds scored a second class ticket on a Seattle to San Francisco steamship line. Over three days he dodged meals by sleeping, exercised, then ordered the finest meal in the dining room. He imagined a Bastille cell as he ate, and learned the meals were included in his ticket.
Mrs. Brown wakes her husband in the middle of the night to report a burglar in the room below. She claims the intruder is lighting and putting down cigars from a birthday gift. John, unfazed, agrees and suggests they will find the thief in the morning.
A minister waiting for a train chats with a half witted boy named Jamie. The boy recalls Mr. Black as his schoolmaster and the minister realizes Black taught both of them. Jamie wryly notes how Black could have produced two such figures.
A physician attributes insomnia to excess brain blood, advising rest from mental labor, avoiding tight clothing, and keeping the feet warm to aid circulation. He adds that unless the insomnia stems from moral causes, simple care and common sense suffice to cure it.
A Scrap Book excerpt discusses omens linked to English coronations. It notes Charles I wearing white at his 1625 ceremony and white snow covering his coffin after execution, James II’s torn canopy and flag, and George III’s coronation diamond loss symbolizing Britain’s loss of the American colonies.
An advertising note offers $25 to El Paso via the Colorado and Southern Ry. Readers are urged to write for information, addressed to T. E. Fisher G. P. A. Denver.
The item proclaims a toilet and bath soap that is completely clear, with the claim you can read through it. It states that all druggists and grocers sell it.
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