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Newspaper
Montpelier Herald
Location
Montpelier, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
8
The article notes scarlet fever as a long known childhood disease that has baffled doctors in the past. It argues death rates are falling as modern physicians favor water, air, and antiseptics over heavy drugging, focusing on preventing spread rather than aggressive remedies.
A woman uses a makeshift attic telescope to view the night sky and unintentionally spies on neighbors. She notes neighbors cutting apples in their out kitchen and reflects that many people pry into others lives when given a view of the heavens. The scene satirizes curiosity over privacy and fellowship.
Lossing recalls that in 1818 at Oswego Major Cochran then nearly eighty, son in law of General Philip Schuyler, described his election to Congress during Adams presidency. A lakeside vessel launch drew crowds and a dance where Cochran, an amateur fiddler, impressed guests by playing. A remark at table led to a nomination and his claim that he had fiddled himself into congress.
A ambitious Chicagoan visits a novel publisher to reveal plans to write a book. He hints at a work “on the line of Las Miserables” but livelier, seeking a chance to have it published by Lippincott's.
A serving maid tells Lamson that all the food on the table was cooked by his wife. Lamson, already full of regret, replies that he is not hungry anyway, in a quip cited from the New York Times.
Evelyn describes Clarence as a conversational foosle who confuses love and golf. George asks for clarification while IIllus trailed by illustrated bits.
A fragment from a historical page hints at a diary or note about a doctor and a question of a fol relation. The readable text mentions Sulph and a playful or archaic phrasing likely tied to medical or personal records.
In a Cleveland Leader excerpt Edmonia, a newly educated girl, explains she recently began washing up and not working yet. She recalls seminary training, a past job as chambermaid, and a rival who died by gas smothering the night before a race of prizes.
Morning scene near Robert Browning's home as Chinese minister arrives with his party. The ambassador, presented in full dress, learns Browning is a poet, and they exchange cordial greetings. The official declares a fond, poetic specialty, leading to a lighthearted brotherly moment.
Dr Fridjof Nansen theorizes Earth's long term future as the sun cools. Primitive life may linger longest, oceans freeze, carbonic snow forms, surface temp drops to 330 degrees below zero F, new oceans form from atmosphere, leaving hydrogen and helium as the atmosphere. The sun becomes a dark star, traveling with the planets.
A family wakes to the rumble of the circus wagons at dawn. Ten year old Billie and five year old Robert slip from their mother’s room to the hall as they prepare for the day.
A much married woman loses three husbands in mine accidents and faces sympathetic visitors. She repeats a grim quip that in her sorrow she has reason to be thankful since none of her husbands lived long after she insured them. The line attributed to the London Graphic adds a dark note about her supposed motives.
An Atlantic liner reports exclusiveness amid difficulties in the ladies’ cabin. All passengers were sick except one woman and a wandering cat. The woman offered comfort to the cat, but a neighboring berth halted with the remark that the cat is private.
A Baltimore American fragment recalls Mary confessing fear of a closet skeleton. Mrs. Whistler and Mrs. Jones dismiss ghosts as she endures bedtime in darkness after misbehavior and the eerie closet tale lingers.
Washington Star quotes Uncle Hten praising patience and self control while noting a man’s continued smile after he has committed a deed, suggesting the capacity for deceit and restraint in stressful situations.
A Kansas City Times brief recalls Wertz senior gifting a cuckoo clock to Ford Wertz junior after a night of intermittent chimes. The clock stopped once, then resumed, prompting a morning wager over winding. The exchange ends with Ford receiving the clock for his room.
In the Solomon Islands a man recalls saving a girl from execution by threatening to shoot if harmed. Villagers demanded the child be killed with her mother, but the narrator, backed by a pistol and a bold stance, persuaded them to sell the girl to him, preventing violence and becoming a slave owner in the process.
The century plant blooms only once in a lifetime and then dies. In southern California it reaches maturity after twenty years, colder climates extend to forty or fifty. Native to northern Mexico the agave family yields pulque, Mexico’s national drink. At blooming, the plant sends up a twelve to twenty foot flower stalk, drawing sap from the body which withers and dies.
In London Pick-Me-Up an officer, Captain Jones, lectures recruits on public demeanor. He says a well behaved soldier should drink up his beer and walk away when a civilian provokes a quarrel. Private Jenkins asks for guidance and is told to drink up his beer and fight back with humor.
The line recalls a humorous exchange about pastry cooks and bill stickers with a dialect punchline. It notes Bones and Mistab Bones in a Chicago News quotation reflecting a regional comedic flavor.
Henry E. Warner reviews a comic opera opened at Madison Square featuring trolley crew, sailors, and a yacht in a desert setting amid sandstorms. The piece blends Japanese costumes Broadway dialogue and Martian imagery with Irish humor, provoking mixed amusement.
A young New Yorker vents about his mother-in-law who loudly boasts about her grandchild in public, turning family outings into a comic irritation. He recalls a subway ride where she paraded the baby as a star, leaving him and his wife unable to speak. The anecdote appeared in the New York Globe.
The Louisville Courier Journal notes how pedestrians chase moving streetcars and distinguishes runners by style. It contrasts old college sprinters with winded business men and others who race to hop a car without help from a conductor.
A quotation warns readers about dangers in Africa including jiggers entering barefoot feet and hidden threats in shoes. It advises turning boots inside out, inspecting them, and keeping clothes in boxes to avoid bites from scorpions, snakes, and centipedes. The text cites Winston Churchill, M. P., London Strand.
In Boston two young girls return from a symphony feeling their evening will be remembered for embarrassment. Eleanor says the concert was fine but Mary disgraced herself by sneezing during the performance, a moment that shocks the family and echoes in a ceremonial view of concerts.
A compact description explains needle manufacture from steel wire to finished product. Machines cut wire to length file points flatten heads pierce eyes sharpen and polish. A separate machine counts and packs needles into selling papers before folding and packaging.
A practical joker carries an onion in his pocket to the depot to bid farewell to a young lady and bites it during the farewell. He eats the entire onion before the train leaves. The young woman remarks that he has swallowed his grief, as noted in Harper's Weekly.
A six to eight week old girl died in bed at Acey Alspaugh’s home near Batson bridge in Jackson township. The infant, found unresponsive about five o'clock Sunday morning, was pronounced dead by Wells County coroner after an investigation. The Palmer family, staying with relatives, shared a bed with the baby and an eighteen month old, the mother overwhelmed with grief and the father an oil field worker known in Montpelier.
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