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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1907
Page
4
A collection of reflective meditations on prayer, duty, and contentment. It emphasizes learning to pray, embracing patient progress, and letting Christ guide life while remaining mindful of worldly leaders and contrasts in holiday habits. The piece weaves moral exhortations with anecdotes about mothers, monarchs, and religious practice.
The article argues rural water sources lack funds and oversight while cities invest heavily in sanitary water. It cites a 4,000,000 rural population and shows typhoid deaths may rival urban rates, especially in central Pennsylvania districts with high rural density. It warns that city controls cannot easily extend to thousands of rural supply sources.
A profile of modern leaders from Roosevelt to Edward VII noting how busy they stay. The piece contrasts Roosevelt at Oyster Bay in constant contact with Washington with King Edward at Cowes or Balmoral, where an equerry assists in official duties.
A Philadelphia Press blurb recounts a critic praising a new playwright after an opening performance. The critic notes the late, thunderous show and admits oversleeping afterward, matching the mood of a bustling theatre scene.
A witty remark compares a popular man to a popular musical composition, suggesting popularity inversely mirrors merit. The text ends with a quip about returning to work after vacation being near as painful as dental extraction, framing workplace endurance with humor.
A vivid slice of street life contrasts Madame La Beller and her daughter Denise as they sell strawberries door to door. Denise loses customers to Mrs White, prompting a humorous exchange about beauty, luck, and misfortune. The piece blends moral quips on living well with cartoonish dialogue and clipped anecdotes from newspapers.
The article describes eider down harvesting in Iceland and the Westmann Islands where laws and public sentiment protect nesting birds. It notes a single legal exception for starving individuals, outlines nesting behavior, and explains coarse farm methods for cleaning down using frames and strings.
A collection of fish lore describes black bass cannibalism with an anecdote from a Pennsylvania hatchery showing 20 000 bass reduced to 11 000 in three months while devouring about 9 000 of their kind. Interleaved are literary quips about wealth woes and a comic sale line from Philadelphia Ledger.
A collage of light humor and quips from a bygone era featuring exchanges about bread jokes, last pages in books, coins and honesty, social manners, and kitchen and matinee misadventures. The items mix street humor, domestic wit, and playful puns with portraits of everyday life and social quirks.
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