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Newspaper
Mays Landing Record
Location
Mays Landing, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1905
Page
2
A wandering writer describes Moroccans as dignified but misunderstood by outsiders. He notes open air customs, bathing, and the slave market in Marrakesh, where buyers appraise youths and women in a sourcing of human beings for sale.
A National Zoo keeper recalls a cormorant in Washington that swallowed two pounds of stones during recovery from surgery. The bird developed relief after the stones were removed, but later tampered with the surgeon’s stitches causing the wound to reopen and the patient to die five days post operation.
Voncure D. Conway recalls 1858 Cambridge days when Henry Wadsworth Longfellow taught poetry at Harvard. Conway describes Longfellow as modest, amiable, unassuming, and universally beloved by students and peers.
British astronomer Sir Robert Ball once visited an Irish town to lecture but found no transport. A man boarded and asked if he was Sir Robert Ball, apologizing for waiting by saying he was told to look for an intellectual gentleman. Ball chose not to pursue the man’s idea of intellect.
A historical note describes third class coaches in England being placed next to the engine with the tender in front during travel. It recalls harsh treatment during accidents when engines were driven forward and passengers packed into a small open truck without roof or side protection.
Mrs Crabbe declares no real perfect man exists. Air Crabbe concedes Adam could be perfect if Eve had been made first and would have overseen his creation. The exchange appears in the Philadelphia Press with a light joke on gender roles.
The narrator describes Nile travel below the first cataract with a broad muddy river, sand spit islands, and shifting channels. Night navigation is impossible, forcing riverboats to anchor by bank stakes and punt for safety. The voyage reveals distant cliffs, deserted plains, and silent villages, with dramatic kiln lights and native figures near a brick furnace.
The article explains the U S presidential oath as the shortest constitutional pledge. It notes the swearing before the chief justice at the capitol, the Bible used, and the ritual of kissing the page and selecting a verse for the lips.
An old superstition story recounts Saint Dunstan as a skilled farrier trapped by the devil in disguise. The saint endures pain during the shoeing but vows to spare any home with a horseshoe on display from further malign visits.
A patron laments losing a prized umbrella left against a wall in a restaurant. After turning away briefly, a fellow customer who owned the umbrella allegedly took it away, prompting talk of lacking conscience and frustration at the incident reported to the Cleveland Leader.
A snappy quip from a New York Press item notes an artist finishing a portrait of Cash ley who says the subject is overpaid for not being better portrayed. The exchange hints at humor and compensation in artistic efforts.
A fragment notes that old men's eyes are strongest for distant things, with the line suggesting enduring perception beyond immediate concerns. The iden tity Elot appears as the source or speaker of the remark.
Dialogue excerpt where Gladys says someone has designs upon Mita and Ethel questions it. Gladys claims the man declared her image is engraved on his heart, while a judge comments on the insistence.
A classroom exchange defines tautology as repetition. A boy answers with a rambling example about sheep's head for dinner and a sister’s guest, prompting the teacher to ask him to go to the top for clarity.
A Detroit Free Press piece features a performer describing a tough role in a barnstorming show. He jokes about living on one meal a day while portraying a man with a goat, highlighting the play’s rough endurance.
A fragment quotes Pope praising the habit of a whole life as stronger than all reasons in work. The line reflects a classical view on enduring practices over theoretical justification.
Fragmentary Yale Bocord note mentions chickens and a question about whether someone considers budgetary wartime needs. The tone hints at campus humor and student writing with stray phrases about paying for a query and pecking behavior.
The document describes a mortgage and levy on real estate in Atlantic County New Jersey belonging to Shore Electric Light Heat and Power Company. It details the property boundaries and adjoining parcels and notes the sale by execution at the suit of Sallie J. Hunt. It includes fixtures machinery and related personal property located in the buildings and pledged to the mortgagee.
The article records a probate notice for the estate of Cristina Nan, deceased, with Parsugat to toe-ot nel Shaner as surrogate for the city. Dated March 1008, likely indicating a legal proceeding or filing.
In the Borough of Pleasantville and City of Atlantic City New Jersey a property sale is ordered by writ of execution. The sale covers the property described with a precise starting point on Shore Road and expansion into adjacent streets, bounded by Edgewater Avenue and Pine Mine Road, with the court appointing Ranel Bex as the commissioner.
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