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Newspaper
Hayti Herald
Location
Hayti, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1913
Page
3
A compact note on how words evolve as if built like houses. Examples include neighbor from sib to gossip, farmer from boor, and pitcher once meaning chap or fellow, explaining shifts in common sayings over time.
A compact retrospective notes the thirteenth congress of 1818, Perry's Lake victory, the 1814 treaty path, Madison's 1819 inauguration, Leipsic and Napoleon’s era, Argentina's independence, and sterotyping advances. It lists notable births like Wagner, Hessemer, Livingstone, Pitman, Douglas, Porter, Fremont, and concludes the period did not turn out badly for world progress.
A legend from 2000 years before Christ recounts a Chinese princess and a noble lover exchanging blossoms for a drink. She drinks water steeped with a twig and discovers tea, sparking royal interest and a spread of the custom through the court and beyond.
A judge critiques mixed proverbs and wordplay, noting misheard phrases and mirrored letters. The dialogue mocks moral sayings such as Time and tide wait for no man and One good turn deserves another, while a stern remark implies a punishment involving a child and a parent in a tense domestic scene.
Step by step instructions describe converting a soap box into a spring trap using cleats hinges and a brace stick. The author explains removing an end attaching a cord from the top to the brace, using a baltstick hole, and baiting with apple placed in a rabbit run with daily checks.
A neighbor’s boy is sent to a drug store to buy five postage stamps with two dimes. The boy loses one dime and explains that he did not buy the stamps because it was the man’s dime that was lost, as told by a judge.
A street car exchange shows Bobby telling a woman to give her seat to her father. He says he tolerates the scene at home but not in public. The dialogue ends with the woman addressing him as a child. The source appears from Ladies Home Journal.
British scientists report a woman with as many as ten distinct personalities, featuring shifts in mood and behavior hourly. Cases include Fiona Maelread and Miss Beauchamp, plus a man living as Brown, with memory continuity across personalities and signs of dialogue through handwriting and gesture.
Roy Boyd of Minneapolis and his wife were near Upper Red Lake when darkness fell and a wolf pack circled them through the night. They kept safe by building a fire and were able to reach their camp at dawn.
Ella McIntosh testified in a Jersey City divorce suit that her husband John H. McIntosh of Woodbridge believed a wife should be beaten weekly and sometimes imprisoned on bread and water, a theory he allegedly practiced.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse captain reports 3000 miles covered by dead reckoning due to clouds and mist. Voyage from New York to Plymouth hindered by weather with no celestial observations possible.
Hyattsville Md suffragists from across the United States gathered and were greeted by the mayor who presented the key to the city. A senate committee on suffrage spoke before the procession moved to the Capitol to present petitions to the Senate. The scene shows the speakers' stand and suffragists’ automobiles surrounding it.
Ned-Lester L. King, a wealthy Omaha businessman, secured an injunction to keep his mother in law Mrs. Leyi Gardner of Harvard UL out of his home. Gardner had been visiting for months and King states she caused trouble between his wife and himself, and was ordered to depart when asked.
Jerusalem of about 60 000 Jews 13 000 Christians and 12 000 Muslims endures severe hardship as war and reduced pilgrim traffic hit business. Costs of living soar with no relief seen. The city relies on souvenir making and olive wood pieces, once Bethlehem’s specialty now produced by Bethlehemites in Paris for sale in Jerusalem.
Photographer Ray Calvert of Boisevale while photographing the Monongahela valley on a Braddock hillside saw a man with a knife attacking another. He toppled into an embankment wrecking his camera. police found Anthony Goura with twelve stab wounds robbed of $126, seriously injured, and the assailant fled.
Captain Patrick Grace, renowned for saving eighty nine people from drowning, died at his Montgomery home aged seventy six. He had received a congressional medal for bravery.
A reader recalls a tale of a prejudiced old lady who excuses her dislike of a man by noting who carries an umbrella. The piece argues Coca-Cola is unfairly criticized for caffeine, noting tea and coffee provide caffeine too and that prejudice drives the critique. End with a plea for fairness.
At a New York luncheon De Wolf Hopper mocked a bad actor who had hints to quit the stage. He recalled a brief stint on the road as Hamlet and Canal Street work, noting the actor believed critics were the cause. The banter touched on hints and birds that might hatch if allowed.
In a playful sketch, Menelaus rules Laconia and tries to set a strict pace for his people. His wife Helen asks for a new hat, but he refuses saying no is shorter than yes. She cries and runs away with Paris amidst comic irony.
A law from the 1913 New Jersey legislature requires public school teachers to devote 30 minutes each month to teaching accident prevention. The mandate aims to improve safety awareness among students across the state.
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