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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1907
Page
2
Thomas Ashland, a disdainful suitor kept apart from women, falls for a green jade locket worn by a painter's muse. When the jade reveals the actress’s portrait of Hackett, his despair turns to triumph as he discovers her true feelings and the locket’s hidden truth changes their fate.
An old printer muses on how readers notice only the upper halves of letters and how lower stems fade in meaning. He compares headlines and Roman type, noting L versus S ambiguity, and jokes that reformers could trim more of each letter to save 25 percent.
A foreign observer asked how the Kaiser could show such fervent interest in births marriages and deaths. A prince explains that the father imagines himself as the baby at christenings the bride at weddings and the corpse at funerals highlighting his remarkable character.
A Versailles canal demonstration by chemist Depre showed a fire so rapid and devouring that water fed it,-soaked by royal decree Louis XV kept the method secret. Depre died soon after, taking the knowledge to the grave.
An ancient papyrus letter from Panbesa to Amenemapt, dating about 1500 BCE, describes life in Pa Rameses during Ramesses I's era. The vivid scenes include verdant fields, markets, wines, olives, figs, beer, music, and daily life of both commoners and elites in a pleasant city.
Venice is described as a famed European city built on a cluster of about seventy to eighty islands in a shallow lagoon off the Adriatic. A sand bank divides the lagoon from the mainland, with Isolda de Rialto nicknamed the Island of the Deep Stream as the principal island. The city rests on artificial piles and stones, with the Grand Canal splitting the city, the Rialto Bridge spanning it, and hundreds of canals and lanes providing transport by gondola and bridge.
A dialogue shows Jon Miller once discussing logic and metaphysics with a visiting professor from California. The professor claims he chairs metaphysics and logic at a New Zealand university while Miller jokes that such fields exist only in theory, prompting a lighthearted remark on keeping people to oversee them even if they do not exist.
The London Grade announces a special window dressing school to be established for ground men and women to obtain thorough technical training in this branch of shop keeping amid delays in securing first class artists for Viennese style shop windows.
In Trieste the bora wind, called the wind of death, scourges the streets with blue lightning like a tornado. The article notes how locals endure the blast, quickly burying themselves in the dust and debris before the calm returns and the city resumes ordinary life.
In Baltimore criminal court a Black man stands trial for stealing and pawning a watch. Identified by the owner, he claims innocence. He explains that he bought the watch from a panhandler on the corner and pawned it for profit, but lacked presence of mind to advise the man to pawn it himself.
The article notes an ancient canal across the isthmus 600 years before Christ and its later use until about 3,000 years ago. Napoleon urged study, engineer Lepere recommended restoration, but the project was not undertaken. Lesseps later pursued a new route with a different plan.
A quirky remark on Scottish loyalty to the kilt highlights how highlanders avoid traditional warmth by wearing the kilt instead of more clothing. A soldier defends the kilt as staying warm even in cold winds, calling it a heated issue of identity and practicality.
German researchers conclude paper decay results from bacteria and molds that ruin texture and color. Foxing stems from Bac terium prodgorium and Penicillium glaucum, aided by damp and heat. Proposals to combat include rosin glazes and microbe‑killing additives, with cautions for watercolors and pigments.
A biography recounts Brown who remained cheerful after losing both feet and enduring house fire and a railroad accident. Friends note his faith and philosophy kept him accepting misfortune as best while lamenting the irony of chilly feet. He quipped that his amputated feet were already cold.
A group of theologians questioned a timid Scottish woman admitted to clear fellowship. When asked the decrees of God she replied, I trow that best imself. Cornered on what kind of man Adam was she answered just like it her fouk. The examiner pressed for a definite answer. She said he was just like Jeems Madden, ye Leu, one body got anything by bin and many lost.
A Chinese text recounts Mr Chor who loved curios and mistook fakes for real artifacts. A dealer offers the lacquer bow of Emperor Shun and a mat linked to Contractus. Mr Chow sells all he has to buy them and travels begging with the bowl, mat, and red token.
Quotations list farm inputs and feeds with prices for corn, oats, hay, seeds, and milling products. Items include Red and Yellow corn, White corn, shelled corn, rye, hay timothy and mixed, clover, alfalfa, barley, flour, bran, middlings, and dairy feeds with per bushel or per ton rates. dates and origin noted as Frederick County exchange.
A vintage sales note touts saving money by avoiding adulterated paint. It warns cheap paint leads to decay and higher long term costs, urging buyers to choose Davis 100 percent Pure Paint and insist on no substitutes as the only reliable option.
A Frederick Maryland man Andrew Boenish reports kidney pain and backache relieved by Doan's Kidney Pills after other remedies failed. He bought at CO Main's drug store and notes lasting relief with no recurrence. Doan's Kidney Pills sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents priced 50 cents. Remember the name Doan's.
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