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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1911
Page
2
A rising New York politician recalls a country house prank where a solemn aide presented a bowl of bath water at the bed and asked him to judge the temperature. The moment, described as a diplomat’s handling of embarrassment, ends with the aide’s explanation about the bath temperature.
An article describes the rafflesia as the world largest flower from Sumatra named after Sir Stamford Raffes. It notes five brick colored petals about four feet across with yellowish white tubercles and a cup a foot wide holding twelve pints. The flower weighs about fifteen pounds and petals are thick. Also mentioned is a quaint snippet about a Cornish fishing smack and a line about Chamberlain's Cough and Chill remedy with sales notes.
Old time mariners fought waterspouts with noise and cannons while reciting gospel passages and waving knives. Stories say the cannon barrage could once split a spout, but such methods are now considered futile, as recent accounts show. A separate verse recounts a tale of Jim Brown and a farmer’s life ending with a marriage proposal to a milkmaid.
A renowned bishop in the upper house of Canterburyerty vocation unsettles Episcopal brethren by saying in the Church Family Newspaper that prayer book revision is not a clean slate. He adds there is no good dent of grit under the door.
A humorous verse tale shows Tie wooing in German French and English, with Irish Turkish Greek and Latin invoked but the maiden silent. In a burst of desperation he proclaims the universal language, Mil wy farsgoth, plants a kiss, and the maiden responds to the mysterious jargon, leaving readers to guess the outcome.
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