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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1898
Page
3
A collage of humorous exchanges and wry jests from multiple papers. snippets mock social pretensions, marital jests, and clever wordplay. The excerpts include barbed asides about husbands, wives, doctors, bankers, and witty neighbors, reflecting a society amused by everyday foibles and polite irony.
The London Chronicle traces South Africa's rail growth from early colonial lines to modern expansion. It notes Beaufort West to Kimberley journeys, diamonds spurring progress, and spectacular routes through Wynberg and Hex River tunnels with high Alpine scenery. It highlights Zambesi prospects and shared imperial support guiding the network.
A dahlia, a Mexican native, rose early in this century and became as popular in gardens as camellias and fuchsias in greenhouses. It was introduced to England by Lady Holland in 1804 after a prior lapse in its history.
The article cites four scientists estimating sea surface area 1391 million square miles weight 1.88 quintillion tons and volume 322 billion cubic miles with depth about 12 000 feet. It then imagines pouring the sea into a jelly mold formed from the United Kingdom and Ireland, suggesting a dramatic comparison of land and sea.
John R. Hite, once a $3,000,600 California gold magnate, waited 17 years to wed Cecelia Nougues, whom he met on a Pacific coast honeymoon. She cared for him as a nurse while widowed, they reunited in illness, and married in Oakland on October 14.
A Springfield shoe dealer who failed in 1875 and settled with creditors at 50 cents on the dollar has, 22 years later, paid the remaining balance in full. He shows no claim against him and seeks no publicity, saying his conscience compelled the settlement. Creditors signed a satisfaction paper, some heirs received payments, and many original papers were destroyed.
A fragment notes a practice where natives of Egypt supposedly boil cabbage before other foods if they plan to drink wine after dinner. The sentence is unclear and lacks verifiable detail or context.
A Louisville Evening Post report recalls an Easter Kentucky hillside grave with a faded marker reading Jane Laler, ded Agus, 1840. The inscription, said to be carved by a novice, praised a woman as “allus kine to evry buddie.” Local lore connects her to an old woodsman husband on Mount Elkhorn.
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