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Newspaper
Hamiota Echo
Location
Hamiota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
5
The young suitor Mr. Gerald Gerdow hosts a debut dinner featuring medicated soup that fails due to a castor flavor from a reused cloth. Guests endure a strained start but recover as the meal continues, with a dessert mishap involving greengages and olives provoking loud laughter.
The three year old Alexis, heir to Czar Nicholas, receives an appanage of 400000 pounds yearly with running expenses until age fifteen and further funds afterward. Insurance premiums for the Crown Prince reach 500000 pounds, mirrored by large costs for guards and secret police amid fears of kidnapping.
Pat digs a ditch and hides, a cave-in erases his first efforts. He fake-plays buried, leaving only ends of tools, prompting bystanders to fear a corpse. He then reveals himself and jokes that he anticipated their reaction.
A university preacher faces a student prank as undergraduates alter Bible pages to reveal a misread Genesis passage. The read-aloud line about Noah’s wife and the dimensions described baffles the preacher but he accepts the moment as a sign of human wonder.
The history notes Laurentius of Haarlem in about A.D. 1 practicing wood types, Gutenberg popularizing metal types, Peter Schaeffer perfecting casting in matrices, Frederick Corsellis starting Oxford printing 1468, and William Caxton bringing fusible types to England in 1474.
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