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Newspaper
Hamilton Evening Journal
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1911
Page
22
An advertisement promotes stoves from Monitor and Goodwill Heaters and Ranges, boasting Wuion Made quality. It urges customers to prepare for cold weather, notes agents offer complete home outfitting, and guarantees every stove in all particulars.
In a lively domestic tale Evelyn Foyler and Dicky Robison navigate insistence on marriage amid jealous moods and comic misunderstandings. Their wayward cat Toodkins goes missing prompting a playful chase, a rescuer, and a late reconciliation as love and humor prevail.
A overheard exchange between two actresses at Deal Beach exposes wide pay gaps in theater. One says a lead in the Vasea company earns 450 a week, while another colleague laments earning 17 8 a week. The chat underscores harsh realities of star salaries in the industry.
The Tokyo based leading type foundry publishes two Chinese type series totaling 8,000 characters with 170,400 combinations, plus a catalog showing each character and its usage. It also produces Japanese Hiragana with 152 characters and 30,000 combinations and Katakana with 82 characters and 19,000 combinations.
Billy Oswald of the Cleveland our dour relief department traveled to Detroit to return a prisoner who had escaped from the watchouse. He guarded the man firmly on the D and C boat, but the prisoner persuaded him to loosen vigilance and stroll the deck. Upon arrival, the prisoner attempted to slip away, yet Oswald spotted him boarding ashore and captured him again.
Indianapolis manufacturer James Guy Haugh married Marguerite Castaign, a French woman, after a romance carried by telegraph and wireless across France and America. The couple met in Europe, exchanged marriage proposals via Morse code, and the bride arrived aboard the La Bretagne to wed in New York.
In Tarrytown New York motorists report two gray squirrels crossing Gorybrooke Road under umbrellas near William Rockefeller’s place. Irving Revere claims a dead squirrel nearby explains widespread cabbage damage as the creatures used cabbage leaves as rain shelters and bit holes to thread tails through.
The ad notes George C. Hubbe of 1789 Broadway lost a hat with inside inked markings GO. H and asks readers to help locate it near Van Cortlandt Park before the season ends. A reward is offered. The piece also mentions Uncle Sam’s cat Jim on the federal payroll, earning a monthly stipend for rodent control and buying snacks.
The piece notes frog dishes spreading in England including Cambridgeshire and Norfolk households serving them whole fried in breadcrumbs. On the continent hindquarters are eaten grilled with bacon or in an omelette. Frog and bacon is disliked by some but praised by those who try it. It mentions a Montevideo dinner offering a large frog dish costing 600 francs with truffles, and a humorous anecdote of a man who ate young frogs to excess, describing his stuttering enjoyment.
The narrative recalls da Vinci as erratic yet intensely focused, painting from sunrise to dusk, often without food or drink. He would pause for hours to study his figures, then abruptly ride from Corte Vecchia to the Grazie to add a brushstroke before returning to spectators.
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