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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1907
Page
7
In a Chicago Daily News item a discussion among three men centers on W. D. Brackenbury, labeled mean yet defended as frugal and charitable. Skilliven excuses harsh judgments, noting dyspepsia and late-life gentleness, while others question motives and potential inheritance dynamics.
A diverse collection of notes reports an invention for producing rubber from wheat, plus various trivia on population, immigration, salaries, mining, and historical curiosities. The item blends technological claim with miscellaneous historical miscellany.
The Oceanic Steamer Mariposa, under Captain Lawless, arrives from Tahiti with 23 passengers and tropical cargo. Among them W. F. Doty is appointed United States consul to Fabriz Persia, a remote post requiring camel travel. At Nov 9 sighting, ducks passed overhead 1,800 miles from San Francisco and 1,200 miles from Hawaii.
A verse excerpt by Lord Houghton contrasts olden men with modern ones. It praises contemporary virtue as a natural blend of lofty thoughts and daily tasks. Each person faces fronting foes, performing gravest deeds as if noble boys at play.
In a London Times tale, Mildred, once a nurse, marries the famed professor Sir Robert. She tires of wealth and social excess, leaves, returns as Sister Huntly to care for his eye injuries. The pair reconcile, sharing work and forbearance, proving marriage requires mutual aid.
A serious lab accident injures the renowned chemist Sir Robert Ridgely while performing experiments. Hope remains that vision will recover, with Mr Carton the eminent oculist attending.
The origin of the phrase making ducks and drakes with money is linked to a stone skipping game played at ponds. A separate anecdote recalls a New York firm sending a drummer with $200, who later charges $259 more before staying on, illustrating the perils of ill fortune in business.
A collection of short vignettes including a prodigal son tale of a mother’s intercession and a son’s return, a grateful cat story, humorous verses about snow days, a cigarette cautionary tale for Dick Lillypate, woodcock nest misadventure, a child longing for a father figure, a tale of quieting waves with soap, and quick humor about peaches and a Salt Africa note.
The guide covers transplant timing by plant type and leaf stage. Large varieties like geraniums and coleus should be thinned after the second leaf, while alyssum and ageratum wait until the fourth leaf. After a fourth leaf or four inches height, pot and root-fill carefully, then water and place in a warm light area to grow on without delay.
Fragmentary text shows a mistaken belief about engagement and a discussion of light colored eyes. A brief aside mentions the strain on sight and an assertion about Europe's population growing at a rapid rate, with a claim of doubling in a century.
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