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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1909
Page
5
A miscellany of quips and anecdotes surveys politics fashion crime and society. Notes glance at tax inheritance schemes a Nebraska post office named Tonic and Servia royalty while jokes on Boston butts graft prices and heroic acts mingle with reflections on courage and whimsy from a distant era.
On his way home from a bull fight King Alfonso of Spain halted to lay the cornerstone of a free soup kitchen for the poor. He may have been moved by a wish to honor the bulls killed in the ring with a fitting disposal of their remains.
A clipping recounts Mother Shipton's famed prediction debunked as a fake yet notes rail travel perils. A Boston case saw a lad injured after helping passengers alight. courts barred damages, saying boarding crowded cars carried implied transportation risks, warning against unnecessary risk.
The omniscient newspapers report President Taft assisting Mrs Watt in transforming the White House into a comfortable home. The effort reflects a civic-minded push by good Americans to improve national residence life.
The piece argues leaders may live as private citizens if in power, while public roles force homes into workspaces. It discusses deficits in Britain and the U S, blaming pensions for old age and Civil War costs. It notes both nations aim to raise revenue more than cut spending and calls for distribution of wealth to avoid extreme poverty.
A sixth grade boy in Cleveland declines bringing his four year old sister to a school program. He fears peers will think him odd since other boys do not bring children. The tale appears in a Plain Dealer anecdote about early manhood and stage fright.
The quote contrasts a lookout’s note of longer days with Sirius Barker’s view that time varies by pay and rent days. A social tip follows: offering sympathy seldom aids a friend in trouble, as it can bore them. A joke about a family with a 16 year old and a 36 volume encyclopedia closes the snippet.
Mrs Brewster recalls a library desk encounter where a patron argues about overdue fines and rules The librarian remains calm as the rowdy patron is challenged by a daughter and a trustee card The reader ends by praising the young desk clerk as sensible and fair.
A writer from Success notes New York’s weekly meat and fish intake across beef pork poultry sausages mutton liver and other products. vast fragments are wasted daily and sent to pig farms or fertilizer ships. The author urges a simple local effort to collect and distribute surplus food to feed a million people.
Uncle Sam highlights waste wood as a preventable loss amounting to millions of cords yearly. He outlines usable paths beyond tanning and papermaking, including destructive distillation, turpentine and resin recovery, paper pulp, alcohols and acids. Crude outputs include tar oils charcoal and acids with yields tied to wood type and processing.
A Jacksonville dispatch reports a planned statewide extermination war on the house fly. Edward Hatch Jr. meets with State Health Commissioner Porter, with Dr. Porter issuing preventive instructions and posters depicting the pest’s diseases being distributed statewide. The campaign spreads to Atlanta Savannah and Louisiana with city officials and housekeepers aiding in eradication efforts as warmer weather accelerates fly activity.
Reminiscences recount the flag’s evolution from an old Northamptonshire brass for Robert Washington dated 1622 to a National emblem. In 1776 thirteen colonies raised a standard at Washington’s headquarters, incorporating blue grounds and later replacing crosses with stars in 1777 after Independence.
The note recalls Thomas Bailey Aldrich, famed for wit, who sought to rejoin Boston's voting list after a years absence. Before a magistrate he was asked to read. replying he could read only a little, he was given the Declaration and told to read it, prompting a quip before being permitted to register.
A schoolbound boy hurries an order to a shopkeeper. He buys coffee sugar cocoa eggs and butter with prices given and the grocer totals four dollars and eighty three cents. The boy escapes before solving the remaining item.
A collage of comic exchanges and quips from various papers featuring jokes about electricity in steak, air ships, editors and paydays, misheard phrases, sly puns, and humorous observations on marriage, suffrage, and daily life. The items showcase playful banter among characters and jokes about modern tech, travel, and social norms.
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