Free Reading Room Receives New Book Consignment
Miss Hattie Dalton returns home for the holidays while visitors at the Free Reading Room find a large consignment of new fiction. The Library Association, seeking citizen support, lists titles by Deland, Meade, Wharton, Mason, Webster, and many others among the fresh arrivals.
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Lonely Land
Kate Bosher
David G. Phillips
Hattie Dalton
Emerson
Taft to Yale for Kent Professorship of Law
President Taft has decided to accept the Kent professorship of law at Yale and will likely assume the chair early next spring He plans to lecture and may engage in other activities but avoids practicing before the Supreme Court He weighed international law as too uncertain and considered prior federal appointments in Ohio.
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Washington
Taft
Yale
Indian Talks Slang To Taft At White House
A delegation of Indians in pictorial dress met President Taft and a chief spoke through an interpreter. The interpreter faltered, leaving Taft waiting as the chief finally said in clear English that the interpreter \"doesn't get me.\" The chief paused to slip rubbers over his moccasins at the office door.
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Taft
Minister Gravely Accused Superintendent Charged With Misconduct
In Harrisonburg Virginia a report lists Rev W J Hubbard superintendent of the Home For Children in Charleston West Virginia as jailed awaiting extradition. He faces a charge tied to his official conduct and could face a death penalty offense. Spain Ratifies Moroccan Treaty and other brief items follow.
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Village Life in Egypt Reveals Mud Huts and Roof Dumps
The Wide World Magazine describes Egyptian village life as primitive and sun baked. One room homes have few furnishings, ramshackle roofs serve as rubbish dumps, and families sleep in cuplike mud structures to avoid snakes and scorpions.
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Poison in Its Air The Valley of Death in Java
Exchange reports on Java's Valley of Death a half mile wide oval basin thirty five feet deep with a hard sandy bottom and bones of animals birds and humans. The deadly carbonic acid gas lingers in the lower valley and explodes the danger to explorers while dogs and fowls perish in minutes.
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Java
To Cheer Him and Farewell at the Station
A London Telegraph item sketches Fitz-Tomkins feigning sadness as his wife departs for a fortnight. Mrs Sitz reassures him that her mother will keep him company in the evenings. The scene closes as the train pulls away and the guard wonders at Fitz-Tomkins bitterly biting his handkerchief. Ireland’s Coast Cliffs hailed by the London Standard describe Donegal and Achill Head’s towering sea cliffs.
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Defrauding the Waiter and Domestic Burdens in Gossip
A Paris cafe scene shows an American attempting to tip counterfeit francs after a 30 franc meal, prompting a gentle rebuke from the waiter. The passage wanders to domestic worries as Old Cronkybo requests passage repairs and housekeeper Mrs Grimage comments on coffins and wallpaper. The third snippet jokes about divorce motives, noting a man’s stinginess and a wife’s suit for divorce.
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Quotable Sparks on Restraint and Willpower
Two brief quotes contrast anger and touch with counting to ten or a thousand before action. The Boston Transcript cites patience in speech while Amersoa notes discontent as a defect of will. The humor and compact maxims reflect everyday wisdom from period newspapers.
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