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Newspaper
Hayti Herald
Location
Hayti, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1914
Page
3
A New Hampshire designer introduces a toy dump cart that uses a spring driven bottom to dump its load. Pressing a release allows the rear bottom to drop, tipping the contents onto the floor while the cart keeps its one wheel and continues moving.
A Strand photo shows W. H. Gibbs and a companion standing bolt upright on a deck at latitude 15 degrees south on February 13 1918 with no lateral shadow indicating the sun was directly overhead at local noon. The piece explains the rarity of a vertical sun and how geography and time conspire for such an event.
A fragment shows a playful exchange about Willie and the new children next door. The line hints at humor or bonding, with a quip about the trio involved.
A brief dialogue unfolds as a guest arrives and a host jokes that without the guest there would have been only 18 at dinner, noting the mother's superstition about the seating. The exchange conveys warmth and family humor.
The New York Sun notes how vernacular shifts by region affect common phrases and pastimes. Travelers encounter different terms for games, footwear repairs, lodging, and even exclamations such as “by golly” becoming “by gorry,” revealing nationwide linguistic variation.
A toy car built for Master Tom Lloyt, son of a Cleveland consulting engineer, mirrors a real vehicle with an electric motor clutch and two brakes. It features a dummy shift lever and a top speed of six miles per hour, touted as the most practical and complete little car yet.
In a Protestant mission school on the lower west side a teacher guiding four and five year olds through the twenty third Psalm noticed one child straying from the text. A curly haired four year old with gray eyes recited phonetic garble saying Surely the good Mrs Murphy will follow me all the days of my life, prompting quiet amusement.
Ancient money weighed so that a single coin equaled the value of a partic antipal. Kesitah means pieces of money and literally lamb. The Latin pecuiua from pecus gave pecuniary. Early coins bore animals like horse bull hog and later symbols such as a rose or an eagle as values changed.
The word damsel started as a gender neutral term for a young person. Historians cite Louis le Gros and Richard, prince of Wales, in early usage. It later became the diminutive form of dame, the wife of a knight, with a knight's daughter called a damsel.
A compact naval idiom links a kiss to a courtesy salute on deck, a light peck described as a pleasure smack between sailors. The playful phrase frames a kiss as a breezy mark of camaraderie rather than romance.
In Western Canada from Winnipeg, fields of grain and fattening cattle define a booming prairie economy. Winnipeg’s growth to 200,000 and wheat flow to the lakes illustrate vast potential, with American farmers flooding in and trade expanding, promising a robust Anglo‑Saxon alliance and prosperity ahead.
A Sunday Magazine tale from the Chicago Record-Herald recounts Baron Assebach and Miss de Mullyans. The baron recalls visiting a fortune teller, joking that his most recent visit was to the probate court to learn about his grandfather’s will.
Advertises Castoria as a safe remedy for infants and children. Advises inspecting bottles for the correct signature and mentions usage for over 30 years. Ends with a prompt that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
A humorous exchange features a diner quipping that yesterday’s pie tastes stale while Mrs. Hardcrust wittily warns that if not eaten today it will be tomorrow’s. The playful dialogue highlights pastry banter and a light domestic moment.
One hundred years ago General McClure evacuated Fort George fearing British attack after a disastrous American campaign in Lower Canada. He left tents and stores, retreating at short notice with 150 Newark houses burned except one. Four hundred women and children fled to logouts or wandered with Indians in darkness as frost and snow covered the ground.
Reports from Red Bank New Jersey state Dr. H W Perkins is administering a treatment for epilepsy with remarkable results. Old cases improve and some claim full cures. Potential patients are urged to contact Branch 49 Red Bank New Jersey for a free supply of the remedy.
A captioned joke presents a dialogue where a citizen urges patriotism and service to the country without pay, and an official retorts he will act only when many people stop sending him their bills. The exchange satirizes public duty and perceived self-interest in governance.
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