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Newspaper
Jacksons Hole Courier
Location
Jackson, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1915
Page
3
A rugged wanderer on a Cumberland trail meets a native lounging on a stump who mocks city life. The traveler notices distant calls and finally learns the native dislikes New York, jokingly saying it left him feeling bored.
The piece notes slang replaces plain speech with terms like guy skirt and mutt, sparking debate in the New York Sun. It laments loss of direct, elegant language, questions youth manners, and wonders if decorum and civility decline alongside slang.
A fragmented exploration notes ancient and medieval anesthesia practices. Mentions Nepenthe by Homer, hemp vapors among Scythians, a third century Chinese physician, and mandragras’ sedative use cited by Shakespeare. Also cites Vetus Albinus in 1760 and early methods like arterial compression and hypnotism.
The Island of Ascension in the Atlantic, eight by six miles, population about 460, is a British depot with no private land, rents, taxes, or money. Most inhabitants are sailors, work in common trades, and rations cover meat vegetables and farms. The climate is nearly perfect and everything can be grown.
A New York clergyman visiting a small Massachusetts sabing village faced a baptismal mishap as a young fisherman father, unsure and anxious, held his daughter with the font to be faced incorrectly. A seaman in the back yelled guidance, urging the father to turn her head toward the wind as the scene unsettled the congregation.
A fragment explains the strange properties of the number nine and digit sums. It notes that multiplying any number by nine eventually yields a pattern, while reversing digits and subtracting yields totals that are always nine or a multiple thereof. It also mentions digit sums and swaps producing consistent results across examples.
The piece argues Brazil is distinct from Spanish America, a Portuguese realm with vast interior regions in Rio Grande do Sul Santa Catharina and Parana opening to settlement via new railroads. It compares climate and civilization to Peru Ecuador and Bolivia, noting Rio Grande do Sul and Puerto Alegre do not rule interior districts.
Roman pottery discoveries in London arose during demolition of the old General Post Office at St Martin’s le Grand. A hundred and twenty waste and coarse wares were excavated with intact pots and thousands of fragments. Objects include beads, knives, coins, and building materials dated between A D 60 and 200. Further Roman pits were found as 3 4 King William Street buildings came down, while Samien vessels of that era were reconstructed and housed in the Guildhall Museum.
The Persian Gulf island group near the Arabian coast, led by Aahrein, hosts 8,000 Manamel natives of Wahabi Islam who drink water from springs beneath the sea. Divers seal wells with palms tied to harvest pearls, while a Dutch Reformed mission persists under British protection on Labret.
A dated motivational note extols that anything gained without struggle is worthless. It emphasizes that easy tasks attract the lazy, while steady effort by diligent students leads to genuine character and lasting achievement. The text urges persistent grinding over shortcuts to earn recognition.
A cheeky Detroit press item surveys a local preacher and his appeal. It highlights that the man looks to be well regarded, enjoys simple pleasures, discusses current issues, and is described as a dependable, “man among men” type.
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