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Newspaper
Orland Zenith
Location
Orland, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1900
Page
5
In the London Spectator a child describes waking alone at night with no eyes and hearing a beating heart and distant sounds. The piece ponders darkness surroundings and imagined noises from sleeping beings, ending with the quiet image of a lone child in the night.
Alexander Freer plans to move out to avoid a new female boarder but hires a charming housemaid named Jean to help pack his books. A mistaken assumption leads to a romantic turn as Miss Jeanette Wallace arrives, revealing she will become Freer’s new boarder, and he stays. Later, they reconcile, and Freer resumes his peaceful, book-filled life with Jeanette at his side.
The Boston Herald recounts a census interview near the State House where disputes over ages lead to a husband guessing his wife born in 1860 and marriage in 1872. The wife discovers the truthful report and laments being dated as older, while neighbors hear of the row. The census taker flees as the dispute escalates.
Wallace leaves a Woman's Club meeting under an umbrella as a familiar figure walks beside her through the rain. She rails at the idea of being taken to lectures but hints at a birthday poems gift. Alexander Freer presses for a gift from Jean in a mood of intimate exchange.
A New York Herald report notes sharks are cowardly toward humans and avoid noisy splashing. It cites South Sea islanders bathing in groups to deter maneaters, while a lone diver may be attacked if splashing ceases.
The annual French mushroom crop is valued at 2 million dollars with about sixty wholesale firms in Paris. In the Seine department there are roughly 3,000 caves where mushrooms are grown and around 800 workers are employed, often staying in the caves. A preacher’s vacation prompts a witty remark from a church sister. A proud woman is described as full of airs like a hand organ.
A collage of anecdotes and legal notes recalls ethnic humor in earlier decades, including a Scottish innkeeper remark about the late Duke of Argyll, Munich anti British sentiment, a hatter episode, and a Malay misnaming in a restaurant. It also covers a Hartford Press editor tale, a shipboard incident with Sir William Harcourt, a possum comedy, and a legal discussion on parental advice and alienation of affection with a new trial granted.
Maine Supreme Court justice Savage rules that a parent may not, with hostile or malicious intent, break up a marriage by persuading a daughter to leave her husband. Grant Oakman sued James F. Belden and others alleging coercion. trial had jury verdict for Oakman, appeal noted.
A collection of brief items on soldier nerves in first combat, Crimea boot myths, ancient ice making in India, Russia’s fish diet for 96 million people, Friday superstitions fading, and a Kansas man whose leg lengths equalized after home injuries.
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