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Newspaper
Las Vegas Age
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1907
Page
5
A lighthearted exchange features a sentimental youth and a crusty bachelor debating beauty. The text promotes Mrs Winslow's soothing Syrup for teething children, then mocks diplomatic reporting and notes a writer’s careful phrasing about a 98 year old woman’s literacy.
A boy asks why the bone is named the wishbone while picking a small meatless portion. The exchange humorously notes a wish for more meat as the bone is examined.
Leadville based assayer and chemist Howard E. Berton offers specimen prices for gold silver lead and related metals. Pricing includes mail submissions and full price sector applications with control and reference notes on carbonate assays and metal testing.
The article reports global coal use exceeding fifty thousand tons per hour with about twelve thousand hundred tons for boilers and engines. It notes pig iron production above five thousand tons hourly and another figure citing domestic usage around ten thousand tons per hour.
Mrs Newtiwed laments housekeeping delays and notes that the first question when hiring a servant is who employed her before. Mrs Mark T suppe adds she has kept house long enough to insist on prior employment details, citing Philadelphia Press.
Storekeeper Jason explains the common practice of selling canned vegetables. Local farmers described as gentlemen farmers trained in town attend agriculture schools and participate in the trade.
Josiah Flynt offers an on the ground portrait of General Kuropatkin in Askabad and Trans-Caspia. He praises Kuropatkin's discipline and civilian projects while doubting gossip of graft. The piece notes his stern bearing, loyalty to duty, and complex humanity amid controversy.
A Boston Transcript debate centers on whether certain brownish industrial diamonds used as bearings in electric motors are bor t. A Boston hearing decides these imported diamonds should be classified as bort and granted free entry, with 10 percent duty refunded.
A Shawnee farmer visiting New York recounts meeting Silent Smith in his office. The farmer notes Smith’s courtesy and constant focus on business, telling how Smith warned him of costs and urged a visit within a short chat. The anecdote appears in the York Tribune.
For the week starting Admission Day Matinee the Orpheum headlines the scenic Japanese act A Geisha's Dream with O Hana San and company. The Baltars from Germany bring new acrobatic comedy while Leona Thurber and Picks sing and dance. Balfour quartet offers artistic vaudeville and holdovers Ferreros Subers Mile Martha Fred Ray and Company complete the program.
Ulrich Stock Company presents a new Owen Davis drama at the Grand Opera House starting Sunday matinee September 8. The tale follows a sailor and his sweetheart, an old merchant, a young wife, a waif, and a foster father as the wife is restored and the sailor finds happiness with his sweetheart.
The article extols Hopi society as nearly matriarchal with women owning homes and property inheritance through the mother and descent via the female line. It notes women head households, but remain reserved and devoted to children, while Hopi marriage centers on the woman's view. It questions how civilization will affect this order.
The article cites a Baltimore Sun note about weather myths and a Cincinnati investigator who found 1859 frost events from the Mississippi to the Atlantic. It argues memory is unreliable and records show recurring out of season cold and heat, with farming consequences and later crops sown.
An impatient broker discovers the office boy playing craps. The youth replies he aims to become a partner and stop gambling, signaling ambition and a desire to rise within the firm.
A cluttered, period style column notes how cats wash before rain and parrots, goldfish, horses, cows, sheep, hogs, dogs, birds, and even lions show storm cues. Frogs croak differently with warm dry or wet weather, and fishermen, sharks, and circus trainers heed signs of approaching storms.
The Somerville Journal notes a wary flirtation as Col Allgore courts the pickle manufacturer’s wealthy widow. A wry remark about a “sour mask” colors the exchange, while a marital question lingers. In another thread, Alice and Kate debate hair lock requests and a color mix up.
A debtor border discovers a folded paper in a mashed potato heap served by his landlady but keeps it unseen. A clergyman underwhelms a bishop with his claimed vocation as a call to the ministry. A bantered exchange follows about marriage and vacation with a sting of wit.
Dialogue scene shows Tam and Second Author in a tense exchange about existence and despair, a judge interrupts with a sardonic remark about marrying a famous woman. The fragment hints at themes of meaning and societal perception in a courtroom setting.
An automobile accident anecdote mentions a car that ran twenty five miles without breaking down in a Detroit Free Press feature. The piece uses a humorous reflective tone about a past vehicle mishap.
A Washington Star excerpt recalls how earlier settlers faced harsher conditions, noting scarce hotel accommodations in their day. The piece contrasts past struggles with present comforts and touches on a reference to a church funding phrase of seventy five million dollars.
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