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Newspaper
Kingman Star
Location
Kingman, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1914
Page
5
The article describes Malay marriage customary steps where parents select a wife for their son. An emissary visits potential brides, relatives review the suitor, and a betrothal payment and gifts are exchanged. The wedding concludes with a bersanding ceremony and later divorce through a priest.
A Adirondacks guide falls asleep in the woods and a bug crawls into his ear. A hunting party naturalist identifies the insect with a microscope and, absorbed, leaves the guide distressed without attempting removal. He notes he already has a specimen in his collection.
Actors observe a code of fancies to avoid bad luck. Do not whistle in the dressing room or turn around three times in the passage before admittance, and never utter the tag at rehearsal. Refrain from opening an umbrella on the stage to prevent misfortune for the show.
A Washington Star dialogue quotes Dr Hi brow asserting that people are shaped by their surroundings. The exchange notes changes in habits and appearance based on environment with a humorous aside about posterity resembling comic supplement figures.
A lawyer notes the inherited fortune, and the youth plans no change in living standards to avoid accusations of vulgar display. The dialogue captures prudence over extravagance as debts loom yet restraint remains.
A Baltimore American item notes a morning cry for help as a wife pleads for a pew cook while asking if Jones beat her. The brief exchange frames domestic tension and a call for domestic aid rather than violence.
The piece surveys works produced in confinement including Bonnivard’s The Prisoner of Chillon and novels by Don Quixote and Pilgrim's Progress. Cooper, Wilde, St Paul, and Stead are cited for prison writings and letters highlighting literature born of captivity.
The passage recalls ancient tastes with references to dormouse as a delicacy and an English mid blunt ages cook noting elephant flesh eaten in parts of Asia and Africa. It also notes fifteenth century dishes like crane heron peacock teal swan porpoise and whale as common foods of the time.
Maori women of New Zealand greet with nose rubbing rather than kissing. Friends join by clasping hands, bending heads, and touching noses then rubbing them side to side. Men also practice this greeting, meeting often with nose rubbing. In mourning, women sit with noses touching and moan for chiefs they likely never met.
A lecturer claims nine of ten women propose to their fiancés and asks married men to rise if their wives proposed. An amused audience murmurs as women retort in London Answers style.
A light hearted quip from the Chicago Record Herald attributes marital strife to owning an automobile. The speaker jokes the car caused his wife to agree to become his spouse, delivering a dated humorous reflection on modern mobility.
Local anecdote from New York Run about a restaurant cook fired for lavish dishes she created. The tale notes lavish meals prompting admiration and a wife’s request for a gown after each course.
We present the most extensive selection of Allwin go carts shown. They feature up to date style, durability, and workmanship with guaranteed quality. Tops protect babies from storms and sun, available with or without storm fronts.
Shawnee and Jackson townships held Democratic conventions last Saturday. In Jackson Kraut 101, Newkirk 89, Bowman 52. Kraut secures nomination. For assessor Wert 139, Keeling 102. Wert wins. In Shawnee Watts defeats McWhee by 11 votes. Watts named nominee, Deihl elected assessor.
An old newspaper notice promotes a home treatment to cure bedwetting in children and adults. It claims constitutional causes and offers free instructions from Mrs M Summers Notre Dame Indiana and mentions Mrs J C Sanders Kingman for home reference.
Directors of the U. S. Express Co. vote unanimously to liquidate at the earliest moment due to recent low rates from Parcels Post. The company has handled express service on the C. & E. I. line and will undergo change now.
The Star reports thanks to Theo Moore of Lodh Cal for figs from a fruit shipment sent to his mother Mrs Effie Moore on Monday. Elmer Maris and wife of Veecersburg visited relatives in town last week and left Saturday. Randolph Richardson and two children of Stringtown spent Sunday with W G Marshall's family. Mrs E S Booe and Mrs R A McCord traveled to Indianapolis on Tuesday.
Local ads promote carpets rugs furniture linoleum and home furnishings at low prices from J. Frank McDermond of Attica. Levi Woody visits Urbana to spend time with his son W. B. Woody. The Victor Ladys Tailoring Co. from Chicago offers a new Spring and Summer Fashion Book for viewing.
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