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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1908
Page
9
A hungry wolf encounters a fat mastiff and negotiates sharing meals. The dog explains a life of servitude with easy work, attention, and rewards. The wolf agrees, then notices a collar mark and realizes the price of freedom is service and chains. The tale ends with the wolf fleeing, bound to his fate.
A New York Herald feature describes gourds as art objects and practical tools. F and Willcox of Fifth Avenue art jewelry showcase carved gourds while noting their ancient roots and diverse forms from serpent necks to calabashes. The piece highlights gourds’ cultural reach and potential as decorative and utilitarian items.
A Tenafly gardener outlines growing and hybridizing ornamental gourds for artful uses. He describes varieties such as Hercules club and teacup and saucer, explains simple tools, trellis training, and how vines and bees aid fruit development.
A horticulture note warns that cross breeding gourds requires care to avoid extreme varieties growing too fast and failing to hybridize. Long necked gourds may not cross with bottle types, yet certain pairings can produce extraordinary but fragile offspring. An expert in Washington claims world class results and reports seeds sent to Calcutta for further testing.
A literary critic argues that bathrooms deserve as much scrutiny as other rooms. He notes how artificial roses, wicker pots, wall fabrics, nailed carpets, and gilded fixtures reflect excess while praising American plumbing as a national boast. He urges preservation of good taste in all home spaces.
The visitor asks about a noise in an apartment house. A bystander suggests a dentist extracting a tooth in the floor below, then jokes the sound might be from the Popleys' baby teething upstairs.
The text requests publication of Jan James Whitcomb Riley’s poem The Old Man and Jim with lines ending in Well good-by and emphasizes the old man’s deep pride in Jim. It echoes Civil War imagery and portraits a fatherly bond between a veteran and his soldier son.
An Iowa veteran recounts how he and his four brothers all wrongly believed Postum was ordinary coffee. After adopting Postum to treat health issues, the colonel recovers and credits the product, noting the family’s change in taste and wellness.
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