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Newspaper
Lander Evening Post
Location
Lander, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1921
Page
3
The narrator recalls dining with a Bagdad sheik where guests ate with bread as plates and were served by the host and his wives. Courses included chicken, Tigris salmon, and richly spiced meats, followed by vegetables and fruit. The host tasted each dish, saved the worst sherbet, and finally sent leftovers to beggars, ending with cigarettes and waterpipes.
The article traces early soap use back to biblical ashes and ancient practices. It notes German and French soap making around long-ago periods and explains how cleansing ash mixtures evolved into soap by boiling fat with caustic soda or potash to protect skin and fabrics.
A leading actor asked for 10 cents to shave so he could perform Romeo. The manager offered to switch the bill to Othello after the humorous demand. An article notes Spain’s Madrid edict banning male flirting with penalties for offending ladies.
A Birmingham Age-Herald exchange clues a secret meeting between two men in a cramped telephone booth. They discuss papers before them and speculate about exchanged recipes in a terse, coded moment.
A fragment portrays Captain Kidd leaving a lumber yard with angry oaths and a tight grip on his cutlass. He laments the era’s extortion and inability to be a pirate, exclaiming it is impossible to afford the life and even a plank.
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