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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1912
Page
12
A concise history traces the piano from ancient harp shaped wood with few strings to the clavicytherium, virginal, spinet, harpsichord, and finally the modern piano after Christofori’s 1710 keyboard invention, with rapid 18th to 19th century refinements leading to present perfection.
The article notes at least 600 weed varieties in New England not present at settlement and cites authorities who describe rapid weed introductions. It recounts seeds carried by overshoe rubber and cloth linings, spreading through trade and travel, with a Connecticut example tracing a seed from mud to field.
The London Chronicle notes that belief in unicorn horns revealing poison by sweating blood fueled a fierce rivalry for prized specimens. It cites Charles the Bold displaying multiple large horns and Benvenuto Cellini praising a 17000 ducat horn designed for the pope. Coryat and Windsor references appear as well, with the narwhal often identified as the true unicorn.
The account describes Igorote artisans, noting clever tools and wild art on axes spears shields and pipe designs. It details women shaping clay into urns bowls and kitchen utensils, with two girls fetching clay and older women molding vessels to dry in the sun, though none are baked.
A short exchange from the Chicago Record-Herald recalls a quip about King Midas and a pickle. The dialog contrasts the king’s gold touch with a humorous lack of common eating ease, framing a light moment in a classic newspaper voice.
In a brief comic exchange the young lady confronts a man blocking her path. He responds with a sneeze fueled by hay fever and departs quickly, leaving the moment light and whimsical as reported by the Houston Post.
A humor caption reflects a salesman denying a sale of a necktie to a woman without a male companion. The quip notes an absurd policy and highlights gender-based restrictions in commerce from the era.
Physicians at Jefferson Medical College study a two year old boy named John Dugan whose eyes visibly mirror his initials J in the right eye and D in the left. Despite the unusual markings his eyesight and health are normal.
King George V of England will send a royal orchid and carnation exhibit to the third international flower show in New York from April 5 to 12, 1913. R F Felton, the king's florist, will manage the display featuring hybrids. Sir George Halford will also send a collection of orchids valued in the thousands of dollars, with prizes totaling $20,000 plus silver trophies and medals anticipated from foreign exhibitors.
Nathan Behring, New York supreme court reporter, shattered the world's shorthand speed record by writing 278 words a minute for five minutes in the National Shorthand Reporters Association contest at Buffalo. He previously won the shorthand writer cup and had a best last year of 268 wpm, with Carson of Chicago setting a 269.36 wpm five minute average.
Born in Springfield Massachusetts June 2 1845 he earned the congressional Medal of Honor for seizing his regiment colors at Missionary Ridge Tennessee on November 25 1863. He rose through ranks to brevet colonel and later led divisions in the Philippines and Atlanta campaigns and served as military governor before retiring in 1909. He died in Milwaukee on September 5 1912.
A Fairfield Connecticut tale tells of Dr Labaree the Episcopal pastor who fled a sermon with dramatic haste. He dashed to a nearby pond wearing a stained robe and claimed he carried a bottle of nitric acid in his pocket by accident. He showed glass fragments as proof and then left.
A curious caloric paradox shows water placed on a red hot plate evaporating slowly rather than boiling. Adding volatile liquids like sulfurous acid can freeze water on heat, while ether and carbonic acid gas on a hot capsule form a slowly evaporating spheroid that freezes mercury brought into contact.
A Cramp Memoir notes the Cope line once ran Philadelphia to Liverpool. John Randolph of Roanoke sought passage to Russia as Jackson’s minister. He met Thomas Cope who, in bold terms, offered a stateroom for 150 dollars with no free passage.
A German party reports a leaf sewing ant species in Ceylon nest construction. They observed ants pulling leaf edges, trimming, and tying with silk thread from larvae, a process Ridley noted in 1890. The workers shuttle the thread through the leaf edges to complete the nest.
A Newark News report notes a Roseville man quit smoking to set a good example for his son. After three years clean he discovers a box of little cigars in the boy's coat pocket a well smoked briar pipe in the youngster a tool box in the cellar and cigarettes in the woodshed indicating ongoing temptation and regret.
A compact exchange opens with a merchant urging starting at the bottom for business success and a youth in fringed trousers retorting that he has reached his uppers. The snippets slide into moralizing, playful chatter, and a quip on gambling from life notes, a showcase of aphoristic blasts.
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