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Newspaper
Pella Chronicle
Location
Pella, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1906
Page
6
J H Boice argues against the line laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone calling it false and cruel. He asserts the world responds to joy and sorrow with a generous heart and urges readers to treat the world as it treats them with fairness.
Central University notes recount two basketball games between college and town teams with a 20 to 20 opening draw and a 33 to 17 town victory highlighting inexperience vs veteran players. The week includes a Christian association social, refreshments, and a late-night crowd. The report also notes student departures Mills and Ethel Webb with plans for teaching and study changes, plus local church sermons and an offer of reward for a missing cow-boy hat.
The column covers campus culture with plans to train a student for a Chicago competition, a warning from Prof Bowen about hair pulling, a drama production of Little Red Riding Hood, and the opening of Jordan Hall of Natural Sciences. It also notes church formation, hazing warnings, a basketball win, a wrestling match, student comings and goings, track preparation, a Royal Slave theater booking, and various local visits and notices.
A compact survey traces shoe use from ancient Israelite land practices to Egyptian mummies and Renaissance Venice. It cites biblical land transfer rituals, Egyptian mummy footwear evidence, and 17th century Venice high clogs called chapineys, noted by Thomas Coryat for their ubiquity among noble and wealthy women.
A Burma dwelling venomous serpent Ophiophagus elaps also called Nula bungarus is highly aggressive toward humans and animals. A grown specimen 12 to 15 feet long, with three inch fangs and potent venom, climbs trees and swims. Its bite can kill a fowl in 14 minutes and a dog in 2 hours 18 minutes, with an elephant reportedly dying in three hours. Amrita Bazar Patrika reports on its deadly nature and behavior.
The piece argues that while vines can beautify ordinary walls, they should not obscure special architecture. It highlights beauty in incomplete integration of vine and stone, noting English practice versus American neglect, except in Boston and a few places, as discussed in Garden Magazine.
The excerpt notes the game of quintain survives in Offham Green Kent England named from the mounted lance training device. It describes the post crossbar pivot a board on one end and a sandbag on the other as the tilting target. It recalls a witty caption with a photographer and a humorous banter from a Chicago Tribune strip.
Cassidy asks about things as Casey replies that it is very busy with tasks. Shure, every time I am at leisure I have something to do. The fragment shows a conversational exchange likely reflecting a bustling urban life in Philadelphia.
Gladys questions her partner’s perfection as she watches him closely while Hera fears he may be too good to be true in a Chicago Tribune style note on dramatic tension.
A garbled court remark references a bank cashier and a faulty note as a joke or misread line. The fragment hints at a discussion about credibility and a false note, with quoted slang suggesting a misunderstanding or misquote within legal proceedings. The readable part centers on a bank employee and musical metaphor.
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