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Newspaper
Mount Airy News
Location
Mount Airy, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1908
Page
5
The article explains curetting elephants by removing hardened skin and dirt to reveal sensitive flesh beneath. It covers process, tools, and labor, noting cold weather limits and how natural bathing and rubbing restore health, contrasting with circus elephants' neglected hides.
A five year old quips on diplomacy during a family chat with his father, recalling a pantry incident. He jokes he used diplomacy when slipping outside with a meat pie just as his mother caught the cat stealing from the pantry.
Dr. Nageli of Tromso Norway praises yawning as a superior natural breathing exercise. He says yawning activates all thorax and neck muscles and promotes throat and chest health. He urges readers to yawn widely and stretch at every opportunity for nasal and thoracic relief.
A young eastern passenger on a Silverton to Ouray stagecoach asks if people fall over the ravine. The driver smiles and says, Naw, only once, as he chews and winks.
A humorous exchange questions what the newborn will be named and lists a long cascade of possible appellations. The tone hints at playful debate over identity amid cultural references and a mock catalog of names.
A boy named Humphrey Potter improvised a valve lever by tying a cord to an engine valve, turning a mine engine into an automatic machine. A farmer's son with a jackknife whittled a working power loom, inspired by praise from a master blacksmith and later revealed as the inventor whose loom matched the celebrated power loom.
At a London soiree during Tennyson's tenure as poet laureate a prominent American girl asked to meet him. After a brief exchange he asks if she knows Walt Whitman and, upon her reply no, declares she does not know the only man worth knowing in America. He then ends the interview.
A lawyer questions a plainly dressed witness about his trade with barbed exchanges. The witness, a civil engineer, deflects claims about using picks and shovels, saying his principal implements are brains rather than physical tools.
The article recounts the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece, linked to Jupiter and revived around 881 B.C. It notes the games were held every four years at Olympia in Elis to train youths in five kinds of combat, with prizes of olive or laurel branches, and mentions historical figures Theodoclon and Linter.
By deed of trust dated Oct 22 1907 John Lewis and Emma Lewis his wife secure a loan of 139.00 to Jesse H Prather. On Oct 27 1908 J F Prather trustee announces sale for cash on Needmore Street Mt 27th 1908 at 2 on East side of Keiu Temple to satisfy the debt with interest and costs.
Notice of seizure of four packages of apple brandy on September 4 1908 about ten miles northeast of Dobson near Ladonia post office. The owner may claim the property or it will be disposed of under U S law. September 3 1908 signed by Gee H Brown and J H C Norman collectors.
Drs. Ashby and Lawrence announce a new partnership for medical and surgical practice. Office located over the First National Bank. Thomas B. Ashby M D and Chas S Lawrence W M D are named in the notice.
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