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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1908
Page
2
Fragmentary obituary text discusses dying and anesthesia. It quotes surgeons claiming patients may feel apparent agony without sensation and describes death as a peaceful release. The tone reflects philosophical musings on living trouble and the afterlife.
Allan Cunningham in Lives of British Painters recounts an anecdote about the portrait painter Copley and a sitter obsessed with including his wives in a single family piece. The man insists on adding his deceased wife as an angel and later as a two person figure, leading to further sessions and added sketches after an accident befell the second wife.
A collage of humorous and peculiar anecdotes recounts courtly art disputes over wives likenesses, a French grammar zeal, a dreamer alarmed by a grammatically wrong sentence, undertaker humor in Scotland, and a quip on honor and economy. The pieces mix satire with brief vignettes.
A humorous survey notes essays and stories about animals and vegetables in popular literature. It praises quirky tales like The Onion That Moved Half a Million to Tears and The Pumpkin That Bit while imagining future romances of garden produce and even human scenes, all written with wit by J Montague in New York Amera.
The report notes Mrs. Helen Donaghy, despondent about health, hanged herself at her Philadelphia home. Also cited are a seven year old girl fatally burned by old leaves in Olyphant, and a New York clothing factory foreman shot by a worker.
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