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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1911
Page
6
In Boston a steamer docked at a fruit company, its deck sharply tilted as cargo is unloaded from one side. Locals know this deliberate list helps unloading, while visitors fear a topple, watching the ship rest on a single momentary toe.
Joseph Chapman Jr of Northwestern National Bank argues at a Chicago Commerce luncheon that urban teachers influence boys away from farms. He urges Illinois to back agricultural high schools and rural consolidated schools to keep farming central to national prosperity.
New York auction for the William H. Woodin collection realized 31 450 for a San Francisco raint dated 1870. S Hudson Chapman bidding started at 1 000 and won the coin at 1 450, with Daniel R. Kennedy as auctioneer acting for an absent bidder. Only two such coins are known to exist.
A Hungarian barmaid rose to notoriety through high-profile affairs and marriages. Rosa Wallenberg, later Baroness Bela Schonberger, married Baron Bela Schonberger to gain status in Vienna. After a series of sensational acts including attempted shootings and a bank dispute, she was expelled from Austria. She later wed Count Benzel du Sternau, following her husband’s death and ongoing debts.
Ottawa’s improvement commission spent nearly $1 million since 1900 to beautify the capital. The four mile Rideau canal driveway, parks like Strathcona and Major Hill, and the grand Chateau Laurier hotel mark the era, linking Rideau Hall to Parliament and the experimental farm. The project aims to complete a continuous public drive around Parliament Hill and the canal locks.
Wooster Ohio reports an experiment at the state experimental station showing forty hogs raised in sanitary pens and fed on a brain producing diet produced pork of the highest quality. After release from pens the hogs avoided ordinary swine and experts declared the meat the most succulent and tender ever known.
Wichita Kansas reports Mrs. George Glover thirty eight years old mother of seventeen children gave birth to twins here. She is the mother of five pairs of twins and triplets. Her husband a laborer is forty years old.
A London Daily Telegraph report recaps cases of stage fright among actors and speakers. It notes French terms for true stage fright, describes mouth deviations, eye twitches, and hand tremors as symptoms, and cites examples from Mile. Blanche Dufresne to Alfred Assolant to illustrate nerves on opening nights.
Byron reads the Evening Earth when Shakespeare visits and dismisses a Bacon authorship claim. He jokes that the assertion adds another member to his Ananias Club, totaling 649,788.
A dialogue between characters Bill and Mike centers on worries and a comic noir tone. The Off-Horse voices a quirky fantasy about wearing a Chantecler hat and biting a policeman if forced into one.
A tale from Kaiser era reports the death of a friend of Prince Boris Czetwertynski a famed hunter. The prince nursed a suspected lazy companion during a dangerous African expedition and whispered a hopeful line that the patient would win his fight, after which the man recovered.
A whimsical exchange features Venus guiding her willful son to temper, and Cupid jokes about a hurried exit as footsteps approach. The playful mythic tone centers on social discretion and fitful humor in a lighthearted vignette.
Snippets show Jinx prodded by wife with a mirror gag while a child frets at the dentist. Other lines feature a Bohemian in love with the laundry girl and a running joke about a total stranger dentist.
The old lady notes spring will bring business as the man sells rabbit feet for luck and rattlesnake rattles. She adds he thrives selling mockin birds and praying for rain while hawking various oddities to ward off hoodoos.
The exchange jokes about building a castle in the air. Bones suggests aero planes are the only right tools, and the interlocutor questions the idea with growing astonishment. The dialogue humor centers on aviation as an impossible method.
The passage asks what the flower known as the day's eye does when it weakens. It answers that it turns to the night shade as darkness falls, implying a nocturnal shift in behavior or appearance.
In a domestic exchange Mrs. Torkins hints her husband’s Wall Street antics spilled into home life. She asks if he was a bear in market terms and notes his behavior when he returned from work. The remark reveals strain over financial matters and marital strain.
Frank Works dies at 92 as a self made Wall Street figure from Chillicothe to New York. He started with 5.30 and built a brokerage house, known for bold bets and fast horses. His temper was fiery but he pensioned old champions and left wealth to his daughters and grandchildren.
At Howard County Farmers Institute Edwin C. Druley argued a young man should join a wealthy farmer to work on his farm and marry one of his daughters. Sam Lovejoy urged social engagement while J Gates countered that thrift and good management win farms without city amusements.
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