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Newspaper
Jeffersonville Star
Location
Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
7
The narrator reflects on marriage for status versus love. She analyzes motives for wedlock, noting ambivalence about romance and the lure of wealth, social rank, and control. The piece questions personal sacrifice and the idea of duty in marriage within a moralistic social framework.
Maud asserts the supposed fiancée was misled and that the marriage occurred only last night. She accuses him of deception and asserts the wedding is real despite earlier statements.
A terse meditation on action and initiative, contrasting those who can and do with those who cannot or will not. The prose hints at progress driven by capable effort versus stagnation caused by reluctance.
A humorous exchange has a judge question whether a widow would marry again and the widower respond that he wants a woman of intellect but settles for medium. The widow jokes about medium, and the widower contrasts his past wives as strong minded and weak minded.
An old codger speaks of a single cause behind political parties clubs and societies breaking apart. The youthful seeker asks for the reason and the judge replies that they fail to stay intact.
A dialogue on a Sumatra ad offering a wife for four dollars. Rastus notes the claim in his paper and Johnsing repeats the scene, highlighting the idea that a man with four dollars would not need a wife in the slang exchange.
A laundry proprietor guides a visitor through the mangle room noting shirts returning from cycles looking as if sent through multiple times. The exchange highlights the harsh wear from repeated washing.
Dialogue fragment shows a lowly suitor seeking consent to marry a daughter. Boxleigh questions prospects and wealth. the impecunious suitor responds that he has none, prompting a terse exchange about approval and status.
An exchange spans hesitation and apology as one trader concedes a risky market move that failed yesterday and another notes he passed blame to a rival with a grudge.
In a witty exchange, Mrs De Style explains her eight hat pins mark her new role as an honorary member of the national board of defense, signaling support and status during wartime mobilization.
In a tense exchange, a child asserts dominance by claiming to obtain a will of her own to counter her father’s influence. The dialogue unfolds with playful defiance and parental power dynamics revealed through a lighthearted confrontation.
A brief verse noting the encounter with a man cursed by frosty feet in a familiar old world. The poem reflects common human frailty and chilly hardship in everyday life.
A narrator noted as the Gid Codger mentions his niece Fashnietta Flooter visiting with her infant son Hubert St. Aubyns Flooter at their house. The baby’s cries are described as resounding, while the mother claims the child is “worth his weight in gold” as a judge listens.
The fragment hints at a comparison of animal sounds as the roar of a home creature being heard far away. It includes dialogue about phonograph records and a grim question about worse outcomes to come, but lacks concrete events or identifiable subjects.
A playful exchange features a bride proposing to swap theater tickets for dinner invitations to solve their livelihood issue. The humorous line highlights practical romance and creative spending.
A Washington Post note recalls a little girl comforting a calf in a barnyard she hears her mother is at a club. The line hints at broader tragedy through a chance remark in a public figure’s family life.
May doubts her worth to George fearing his 1000 a year income and a home with plumes. George reassures her, calling her an angel while the bulletin notes the clash between wealth and happiness in this light domestic scene.
Mrs Blase recounts a court test where ten children stood in a line and she had to identify her two. the judge noted the difficulty of selecting her own.
In a humorous exchange a father jokes he lost all his money in the stock market to deter a marriage. The daughter reveals the wooer was on the opposite side of the same deal, flipping the perceived risk into a shared gamble.
A wary voice notes that optimism clashes with daily reports of serious issues. The speaker hints at the tension between hoping for improvement and confronting troubling facts.
A witty exchange notes Doubles as devoted to his art, but mocks the idea of marrying for money. The quip praises his commitment while implying his financial prospects remain unfavored.
Mrs Flatbrush and Mrs Gensonhurst share whispered chatter not by phone but across the back fence. Their exchange highlights a small town habit of neighborhood gossip passing in plain sight.
In a domestic exchange a couple debates their new neighbors. The husband questions what kind of people they are while the wife mentions they hang washing in the attic, revealing tension and mystery.
The exchange notes that Young Dobbins has run an office locally for years and asks if he is gaining practice of a certain kind. The reply indicates his practice is mostly in golf.
Dialogue excerpt shows Mrs Peck challenging Peck on whether he would stay home during war and Peck replying that no one who knows him would call him coward if he remained at her side.
A dialogue shows contemplation of municipal moving pictures theaters. A critic fears movie tax exposure for residents while a proponent questions public cinema with a witty hesitation.
A jokey remark attributes the chorus's aged sound to a failed peach crop. The line implies agricultural misfortune affects show business and adds humor about scarcity influencing performance quality.
A general pressed a commander after a staged clash asking why retreat occurred. The officer blamed a nest of hornets that disrupted the exercise and forced a withdrawal.
A narration features a host lamenting bore guests after they depart and the judge quips that visitors are boring by design. The exchange foregrounds social fatigue and wit in a compact, timeless joke.
The narrator contrasts the magical lamp with a wish for a fail safe auto lamp that never runs out and avoids traffic cops. The dialogue frames a humorous bridge from fairy tale fantasy to everyday urban practicalities.
A quip contrasts accepting life’s rain with critiquing petty theft. One speaker agrees with fate’s rain, while joking that misusing that ideal excuses stealing the nearest umbrella. The exchange blends literary allusion with a practical rebuke.
Captain J W Bell of the Rio Larges, in command of the Thordis, jumped a torpedo off Beachyhead on February 8 and rammed the German submarine, sinking it. He later received a King George medal and a 6500 prize from the British admiralty for the first submarine loss in the war.
The London Chronicle notes that cacao beans functioned as money among Central and South American peoples at the time of European contact, with Aztec practice counting cacao as small change. It cites Acosta from 1610, stating gold and silver were not used for traffic and that cacao remained the customary medium. The piece also mentions values such as 100 beans for a slave and up to 8,000 beans as legal tender among Aztecs.
German researchers report abundant calcium salts improve food assimilation and bodily strength. They note calcium enhances blood bactericidal action and overall resistance, soothes nervous irritation and sneezing, and calcium chloride aids hay fever treatment with marked success.
Timidity holds a man back by seeking guidance from others rather than forming his own views. To overcome it, cultivate desire, grow ambition, study accomplished people, and associate with movers who spur action. Then get to work and keep working.
The Federation of Jewish Farmers of America reports a shift from crowded city tenements to farms. In its recent annual meeting, 63 local associations across 11 states were represented, signaling growing rural settlement among Jewish immigrants.
A customer eyes a ton of coal dumped in a cellar and asks if the boss weighed it on ambuscade scales. The driver replies with a puzzled query, while the freight payer explains that ambuscade scales lie in weight.
In old-fashioned dialogue two sisters mock a sea captain who passes without saluting. One insists good manners require a bow, while the other dismisses it as unnecessary for sailors.
The National Geographic Society bulletin portrays Mount Ararat as the focal point of Armenia and a historic frontier between the Ottoman empire and Russia. It describes Great and Little Ararat, heights of 17 000 and 12 840 feet, and notes legends linking Noah, Noahs ark, and the Garden of Eden to the valley of the Araxes.
Dave Pines confronts Peg Drew after hours about marriage and junior partnership. Peg interviews four married friends to weigh outcomes of matrimony, recounting Aggie, Pearl, Julie, and Moll and their varied fates, then hints at a forthcoming decision and dinner.
The Houston Post quotes a poem praising men and urging equal emphasis on women. It laments gender imbalance and argues society needs capable women alongside men for balance and progress.
The practice of coloring gold fish by placing them in water with specific chemicals is widespread in Sicily to match current tastes.
The 1841 Dorr rebellion, sparked by suffrage expansion, saw Thomas W. Dorr seize the state arsenal after elections by rival Suffrage and Law and Order factions. US troops crushed the effort. Dorr was convicted of treason, later pardoned, and a free constitution followed while he remained imprisoned.
The text explains Hertzian waves named after Heinrich Hertz, a German scientist who demonstrated wireless telegraphy and the transmission of light and electricity. It notes Hertz’s death as a loss to science and describes Marconi’s use of Hertzian waves to telegraph without wires through the ether.
Sydney subscribers can obtain standard time by calling the Sydney observatory. Asking for Time connects to an operator who reads the time to the nearest half minute from the observatory clock. For exact time a high frequency buzzer transmits the actual ticks of the clock.
Grumbly rails at his wife for frequent bonnet purchases as a milliner's bill falls from a letter at breakfast. Mrs. Grumble coyly defends the habit by joking that bonnets belong on the brain and at the table.
Mrs Torkins questions poker and its appeal Gracious dialogue explores why people enjoy the game and whether there is any fun or money to be had in play Charley explains the game to the young wife in a tone of intrigue and gentle persuasion
Historical note on uric acid and its effects followed by an advertisement for Dr. Pierce’s Anuric claiming to eradicate uric acid from the body. It promotes pamphlets and a trial package, mentions other Dr. Pierce remedies and urges readers to ask for Anuric at stores.
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