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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1907
Page
4
A rambling column surveys social issues and oddities including the S P C C, royal forecasts, post offices named Nameless, and the Berthelot spouses tragedy. The writer lambastes road ad clutter, advocates citizen duty, and sketches scenes from public life with humorous asides and moralistic tone.
The text argues against abolishing jail, endorsing gradual improvements and humane reforms. It notes prisons are sometimes necessary for community safety, cites progress in penology, and supports targeted probation efforts for youth and older offenders while cautioning against sweeping changes that ignore public protection. It emphasizes evaluating experiments and recognizing both success and failure in reform efforts.
An exhausted traveler in Abyssinia finds dead berries from a tree, roasts and crushes them. The aroma purifies contaminated water and revives him, leading to the discovery being reported to a mufti who uses roasted berries to revive vigor. The mufti names the tree Eabuah, meaning in Arabia.
A humorous luncheon of misunderstandings follows when an Italian count seeks the meaning of skidoo after a social snub. An Irish page and an older hand explain through a joke dictionary in a Punch style gag. A final quip notes a woman may start affection while a man ends it.
Gen John M Wilson recalls Sheridan’s wish that his statue not sit on the odd Scott horse. Ward’s long effort to sculpt Gen Sheridan’s equestrian monument stalled by Sheridan’s injunction and horse quality concerns.
An ex explorer reports a dark brown headed zebra with striped hind parts and a distinct black back line on an antelope similar in size to a roebuck, both observed during early exploration. Also described are Nebraska parrots, now scarce after early settlement, and notes on ants with remarkable longevity and resilience, including queens observed for a decade and a carpenter ant revived after eight days submerged.
The piece surveys how monarchs earned nicknames in various nations. It lists examples from France Germany Russia Denmark Hungary Portugal Spain and more, noting that titles often reflect a king’s career or reputation over time.
The Mobile court halts decades of lottery operations once tied to Louisiana and Central America, fining prominent men $284,000. The Chicago Post notes this marks the end of the outlaw lottery, condemning gamblers and urging public disdain for their actions.
Professor Edward A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin outlined in Providence before the American Economic Association that in 1900 the share of children under five to women of childbearing age was only three quarters of the 1860 level. He noted statistics align with common observation of smaller modern families versus grandparents and earlier generations, highlighting a half century long birth rate decline masked by population growth.
Ten women form a beautification association to clean and beautify a village. They improve sidewalks, drains, and turf, place waste barrels, repaint an old covered bridge, install a new iron watering trough, and cultivate front yard gardens. Their work ends stray livestock access and sparks community pride.
A pair of men discuss humor and hardship as one laments his mother-in-law's long visit ending in July. They recall injuries from a hornet sting and a mule kick, then compare seasickness to vaudeville, while noting family ties influence feelings about the stay.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt, the wife declines to vote at the election. She states she has not been introduced to any of the candidates, prompting her husband to note that other women in the club are very upset.
In a brief exchange, a child asks why the station sits far from campus and a larger figure replies that it is more convenient near the tracks, suggesting practical location reasoning for the station’s placement near rail lines.
A Times Democrat account recalls Moise Jacquin, a French beadmaker of the seventeenth century, who discovered that crushed silvery albettes fish scales yield a pearl paint. He refined a method to coat glass beads with this fluid, producing artificial pearls with a royal sheen, at a cost of about 1,000 breaks per ounce.
During an evening reception after President Tyler's accession and Harrison's cabinet dissolution, Mr Stanberry's shy friend Mr Leonard sat on a gilded chair that collapsed. Webster helped Leonard up and quipped that no cabinet work would hold here, as Leonard reflects on a wife wanting a new bonnet.
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