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Newspaper
Lexington Intelligencer
Location
Lexington, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1909
Page
7
A fragment discusses the dream realm and moral sense in wakeful life, contrasting duty with leisure as part of the game of living. It cites a Bohemian essayist and a Royal Society Edinburgh paper by Charles Phillips on an electrical glass composite used in electrometers and electroscopes.
Boston educators protest a wheel authority rule fixing seven zero as the age limit for active service. Spokesmen say one fifth of Boston school heads would be forced out. They compare the impact to Harvard President Mot, deeming him a detriment to the institution for years.
A historical note clarifies that the poem Little Dropa of Water was written by Frances Sargent Osgood who died in 1550 in Wingham Massachusetts. Osgood contributed to the Ladies' Companion and authored several poetry books. Recent claims attributed the poem to Julia Carney of Galesbury Illinois who likely copied it for use in a Sunday school class.
Angelo Basso, famed New York charity figure for four decades, gave away five cent sandwiches to those without coins. The Washington Post recalls his impact on the East Side and the prayers his memory inspires across many languages in a Babel of tongues.
Freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania face hotel refusals for their underclass dinner after a fight and ensuing damage. Only two hotels will accept them, while the others demand heavy bonds to cover potential damages.
A curmudgeonly wag jokes that the best Christmas gift is not a watch. The exchange, filled with playful jabs about a "brigimas" of gifts, ends with a line about the joke nearly curing him.
Comic exchange in a holiday page where a child and doctor discuss a small patient claim of playing with an animal in a heated garden and an accidental giraffe and camel sighting. The fragment hints at playful dialogue and childlike misstatements.
A brief exchange shows a Barnstorm act backstage in a drug store where one asks for a bracer before tonight's performance and the bartender suggests raw eggs, prompting a witty refusal. The casual humor captures vaudeville era grit and streetwise banter.
Miss Lind Al Hageby, author of The Shambles of Science, plans to tour to rally interest against experiments on animals. She criticizes long experiments that keep animals alive for months causing suffering. Several women nationwide support the cause.
Fossil elephants include the imperial mammoth of Kansas and Nebraska at 13 to 14 feet tall and mastodon around 9 to 4 feet. Living species reach up to 12 feet for African elephants, with Indian elephants commonly seven to ten feet tall.
In a witty exchange in the Birmingham Age-Herald and Cleveland Leader, remarks imply a father struggles with Maude's coming out and a tightwad uncle's fate. Humorous banter centers on family roles and social expectations.
A New York Times note describes eight families occupying eight apartments protesting renting a jeweler’s shop in their building. The agent recounts their burglar risk fears, backed by statistics, and rents to a tailor instead to avoid empty flats in winter.
Presbyterian ministers of Philadelphia plan to seek a charter for the Ministerial Sustentation Fund an annuity program starting at age 70 for those with 30 years of service offering 500 dollars a year and 100 dollars for fewer than 40 years with ten dollars added per extra year of service. Widow receives three fifths if the minister dies while minor children share the remainder. ministers pay twenty percent of the annuity and eighty percent funds go to general subscriptions and income of the fund.
Miss Jane Frances Dove of Wycombe Bucks a skilled teacher at Wycombe Abbey writes from Wycombe to a Wellnes lay club member in St Louis about a speech by Mrs Philip Snowden. Dove asserts Snowden does not represent suffragists who favor preserving parliamentary privileges and claims Snowden is Socialist and opposed to the present English government.
A fragment from a humorous column riffs on why ballets feel dry and jokes about mispronounced phrases. The snippet suggests readers’ amusement at wordplay around salt and dryness in stage performances.
The South Portland cats are weighed to find the heaviest pussy with a 21 pound Boston horn cat from Mrs. Charles Lewis. The cat, with a pedigree, has a Filipino mother raised in Manila and came to the U.S. as a mascot for a First United States Infantry company. Lewis, a discharged soldier, acquired a kitten from that Filipino line. the kitten weighed 21 pounds and was still growing.
A boastful claim about a woman dying for love behind a man’s bravado provokes blunt remarks from onlookers. One comments that he might be anybody’s last thought, underscoring the crowd’s suspicion and contempt.
A father counsels his son on marriage as a path to security, noting that marrying a rich wife can be "almost as as good as" no failure. The quip invites reflection on wealth as a safeguard in union and social expectations.
In a clipped exchange the first actor admits never having performed in England while the second notes a lack of ambition. The dialogue touches on Britain’s annual import value estimated at 22 million dollars in eggs from Europe and the United States.
A Chicago merchant dies leaving his son in charge of a vast business. Friends debate Henry’s capability, praising his brightness but doubting his head for the founder’s policy. The exchange reflects doubts about the heir’s ability to carry on the father’s enterprise.
The piece notes how German uses poly syllables for terms like boycott, with "boicottiren" in current Berlin discourse, while other languages adapt Boycott in forms such as the French "boy cotter," Dutch "boycotten," and Russian "boycottirovat" reflecting Austro Turkish tensions in Berlin papers.
At a centenary celebration in Rennwy, brides of the Habsburg line cover church altar floors with satin and silver, a custom that sees wedding trains repurposed after the ceremony. A wreath of age, once part of Marie Antoinette's wedding garment, honors the ill fated queen of France, executed during the revolution.
In a rural manse on a Sabbath, two Septet ministers dine after a day of fine weather and trout streams. One confesses temptations to fish on Sundays while the other dismisses the urge, claiming he never feels tempted.
Mrs Lare Anderson displays lamps collected from Italy during years abroad. She notes lamps were woven by Etruscan artisans. Eastern women are joining a fad for quaint past fashion lamps.
Mrs C L Mallory of Flat Rock North Carolina ships ten silver cats to a Chicago cat show in a Pullman car specially converted for animals and sleeping quarters. A maid in uniform attended the journey.
A playful exchange unfolds as Pipa and Tommie resist waking while birds sing outside. Tommie mulls the morning mood, but intends to stay in bed despite the rising chorus.
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