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Newspaper
Pas Herald
Location
The Pas, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 30, 1913
Page
4
A sailor recounts joining a Maine coast yacht mission by Miss Hurlbert to spirit away a fortune. Tense pursuit by a rival yacht ends when a sheriff’s warrant reveals the scheme. Miss Hurlbert is jailed for abduction. Townsend’s daughter seeks justice.
At the height of his fame Wagner dined with Vienna chancellor Baron Beust after plans for a German protest serenade stirred by Prussian politics. Beust warned of trouble from a 1848 revolutionary proclamation in Wagner’s autograph portfolio. The next morning Wagner departed Vienna for urgent business in Bayreuth.
This excerpt advises strategies to reduce coughing. It recommends taking a deep breath to fill air cells and hold it to gain a warming soothing effect, aiming to subdue or even stop a cough with perseverance.
A leading Moscow tenor faced a high note beyond him and relied on an orchestra man to supply it. The plan earned loud applause but the tenor forgot supper. In a later performance he mocked the episode. an orchestra voice asked Where's my supper.
A writer describes Moroccan women living in prison-like houses where social life is confined. Ladies move roof to roof through low partitions or ladders, as terraces are reserved for women while men may only enter for repairs.
The Danish mathematician Tycho Brahe earned the nickname Wizard of the Golden Nose after losing his nose in a duel and replacing it with a gold prosthesis fixed by cement and spectacles. His notable appearance fed legends of supernatural powers among the people.
A five year old girl Bessie tells her mother she wishes she were an orphan so she would see her more often. The mother spends much time visiting charitable institutions, prompting the child's remark about going to orphan asylums.
A humorous Punch excerpt shows a visitor vexed by choices of new dresses laid out by a friend. The exchange hints at social friction and wardrobe chatter as a mild social portrait.
O'Brien asks Murphy to come home for supper. Murphy notes it is past nine and that his wife will be angry, but he says she cannot scold both of them.
A brief note explains that the life of a sash cord is extended if dusted and wiped with a greased cloth occasionally, preserving its integrity and function.
Lieutenant Harford of the Ninety-ninth is recounted by Colonel Hamilton Browne in A Lost Legionary in South Africa. Harford, a cheerful yet eccentric officer, pursued butterflies and deadly creatures, even under fire, blowing wings from a microbe as bullets whistled past.
A Denver Republic excerpt recounts the famed Kentucky lawyer John J. Crittenden defending a murderer with eloquence. Crittenden pleads that to err is human yet calls for mercy, and a divine scene imagines Justice and Truth resisting but Mercy urging forgiveness. The piece reflects on mercy guiding humanity.
A story from the New York Tribune describes Hessle marrying into the Smith family and occupying a room as a study and smoke room. The father’s disorder prompted a carpet addition, improving floor and desk order and easing the burden on Hessle and her mother.
Naturalists report baby robins consuming half their weight in beef scraps and digesting within three meals, vireos feeding offspring over a hundred times in ten hours, grosbeaks eating nearly a hundred caterpillars per hour, and yellow throats destroying over 8,000 aphids in the same period.
In a Harper's excerpt, Neo Chesterfield notes Muggins has grown wealthy and seeks social entry while Bolivar and Slithers debate his manners. Slithers quips he would not yield his dentist chair seat to a lady, highlighting a lack of courtly behavior.
A Detroit Free Press quote notes Ele has many good ideas but some impractical. It highlights a proposal to reform politics by requiring public officeholders to work, illustrating debate on governance.
A reflective musing on people mistaking frames for art and the misperception of time. The speaker notes many go through life chasing surfaces and that time feels long only to those who fail to use it wisely.
The article explains shorthand writing known by many terms beyond stenography. Tachygraphy, from tachys and grapho, means swift writing, while stenography derives from grapho and stenos narrow. Phonography, brachygraphy, steganography, and logography are also linked to grapho, with varying meanings of sound, short, secret, and speech. The piece notes phonography as an older term now less used.
The article describes Japanese fireflies as more than insects, symbolizing love, spirits, and fate. It notes their brighter, steadier glow than in Europe or America and cites historical use by students reading by their light. It also mentions the hotaru kage cage and their fearless proximity to people.
The article notes two rare large sharks the great whale shark and the basking shark. The whale shark reaches about fifty feet and is found off India, Peru and Lower California. The basking shark favors the Arctic but is also found near the whale shark, yet both are harmless with tiny teeth and surface feeding.
A 1780 Paria carriage bore Rhomberg crest panels with corsets and scissors. Rhomberg, a Bavarian-born dressmaker from near Munich, famed for concealing figure flaws and amassing a 60,000 franc annual income for his heir.
A man says the moment feels like a sweet dream while lingering at the door as a woman notes a dream will vanish. He vanishes.
A lighthearted courtroom exchange recalls Mrs Smartleigh hosting afternoon teas but lamenting rainy weather. The judge remarks on the unavoidable downpour interfering with social plans. The tone captures a quaint, genteel dispute over weather’s impact on social rituals.
A humorous exchange with a cook jokes about breaking a china plate. The cook quips that he usually must gather the pieces in a dustpan, while the missus calls it lucky. This light banter reflects a snapshot from Chicago journalism.
A Baltimore American quip questions how a carpet theft escaped detection. The reply suggests the thieves simply beat it, implying a quick getaway and a simple exit strategy.
A survey of odd London clubs from the Abduction and No Nose groups to the Surly and Everlasting, detailing bizarre rites, strict membership quirks, and extreme fates. The piece recalls how these societies celebrated or punished behaviors with unusual rules and the consequences that followed.
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