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Newspaper
Postville Review
Location
Postville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1908
Page
5
A contested incident at the ENGLPON Jockey Club meeting led to stewards summoning officials. Sir Charles Bunbury, backing the rider, withdrew support in protest, while the royal patron remained silent, raising questions about fair riding and governance in the sport.
A mid century note extols the fireplace as the home’s central comfort. It urges building a large, broad hearth, inviting rest and peace away from work and stores. The piece links warmth with unity, contentment, and a simple life.
A New York Globe snippet shows two women arguing over curtains for a drawing room while a man dismissively comments on the occupant’s space. He notes the flat’s size and his own discomfort with hosting guests, suggesting the talk is more about pride than practicality.
At a dinner several men debated preferred game birds. One favored canvasback duck, another woodcock, and another quail as the most delicious. The lively discussion concluded as the group neared the end of the meal.
A domestic scene reports the head of the house arriving home early and very hungry. He asks the maid to tell the cook to speed up the meal. The maid replies that there is no food in the house but promises to send for some if he can wait a while.
A local line of remarks recalls a family moving to a flat and discussing a phonograph. The piece notes they broke their previous record last Sunday by hours and twenty six minutes, reflecting a quirky boast during a period of cultural chatter.
Thomas A. Janvier recalls Mafeking Night in London with vivid scenes of flags waving, cheers, and moral bravado. He recounts policemen, social classes, and two Whitechapel girls amid a city-wide frenzy, ending with his own display of union jacks and songs in Harper's Magazine.
A passage cites Outing Magazine on humming birds that enter homes through open windows drawn by flowers. The notes describe danger to the birds as they flutter into obstacles, injure themselves, or seek nectar from artificial foods, seldom sustained in captivity outside greenhouses.
Corrigan borrowed a dress suit for a dance and after the wearer died of heart disease, attended the funeral to honor the guest. He discovered the deceased wore Corrigan's own dark suit in the coffin, the only one in the wardrobe. Corrigan wept as the coffin was lowered and vowed never to own another suit.
A man went into a chemist shop and asked for morphine. The shopman refused without a prescription. The man joked that he might kill himself, provoking the shopman to reply that if he looked like him he would be tempted. London Answers
A vivid 1900s style description of pilgrims ascending Fujiyama in summer, carrying whitewashed wooden banners stamped with temple crests. The piece portrays the mountain’s isolation and grandeur, noting its 12 505 feet height and visibility from thirteen provinces and the sea. It contrasts summer warmth with winter winds that prevent winter stays, portraying Lord Kojiyama amid the landscape.
An excerpt recounts December 1783 when the first gas balloon rose from the Tuileries and observers debated mortal risks and cosmic aims. It notes early pioneers Pierre Giffard, Dupuy de Lome, Renard, Krebsta, and Tissot, and explains progress halted by motor weight until explosive motors emerged, later enabling automobile advances to win air conquest.
The Indianapolis Star notes Disraeli valued small hands as badges of aristocracy and against labor, with small feet signaling noble upbringing. Generations of noble children produced these traits, provoking later envy from brainy commoners who found the artistic hand long and slender, then athletes who mocked small extremities.
Grevelander, fresh from the metropolis, notes many young Wall Street workers with gray hair. He observes the scene in several offices and along the street, wondering if the prolonged market pressures have aged the younger generation and what that portends for their futures.
A short excerpt presents a dialog between Stupid Fellow Mary and Peter Sloman with cousin Kate weighing if Mary told the truth about accepting or refusing. The text is an archaic transcription with spelling quirks and incomplete punctuation.
An English thief recounts experiences and methods with implied lessons about nerve, deception, and opportunism. The narrative fragments depict a grim, cautionary tone from old London periodicals, reflecting moralizing anecdotes about crime and temptation in prior eras.
The gossip at the Four Courts centers on Judge Doherty chief justice from 1830 to 1846 famed for wit. A Dublin Castle entertainment night raises a quip about whether a judge danced at the castle ball. Doherty answers with a reel remark. An officer notes the wind on the quay, Doherty jokes the wind had the worst of it.
The article recalls Geneva’s lake fleets with ships on the water for centuries. It notes the Duke of Savoy’s fourteenth century galleys with rams turrets and crews, and Geneva’s later flotilla aiding in the capture of Chillon. The Great Bear remains the era’s largest vessel with 64 oarsmen and 8 guns.
A downtown office boy displays a wall schedule reading 8 10 reserved for book agents and sellers, 10 11 for Insurance agents, 11 12 for brothers with tongue stories, 1 2 solicitors for church and charitable institutions, 2 3 discuss sporting news with callers, 3 5 miscellaneous social visitors. Night business is transacted by the firm itself.
A financier nicknamed Father asks Rollo about linender. The answer plays on language as the dialogue devolves into garbled terms and mispronunciations, leaving the conversation puzzling and unclear.
A confused tale unfolds as a husband hatches a stealthy plan to leave secretly for downtown business. He evades possible pursuit, dresses at the door, and informs a servant that he will be busy, while the mistress is away. The London Telegraph notes the absence and delay in returning.
The article argues England’s historic harshness toward petty thieves contrasts with lighter penalties for wife beaters. It cites London police court cases where small thefts brought severe jail terms or fines while abuse cases drew lighter penalties, noting an American trend toward valuing human life higher. It cites specific examples of fines, short imprisonments, and trivial thefts, reflecting on magistrates’ inconsistent justice.
In central Australia Lake Amadeus is a salt sheet and Ayers Ddut lies near a desert ring. A wombatlike creature and a larger kangaroo analog once roamed plains but now are scarce. Water systems rely on seasonal floods, frogs Burrowed in mud await rains, natives draw water from tree roots and follow totemic rules restricting marriage to other groups.
A humorous anecdote contrasts a scientific man and common sense. Dobbs argues cleverness does not ensure grasp of ordinary practical solutions, illustrated by a bottle washing error and the lesson to think practically.
An excerpt from Ladies' Pictorial explains currants' nutrition, noting their sugar content and easy digestion as grape sugar. It highlights tartaric acid and potash as beneficial, with cream of tartar present, and mentions practical uses for health.
Chicago Tribune reports President McKinley sacredly kept a nightly pattern. He would briefly retire with his wife, then return alone to the office to resume work, reading a Bible chapter with Mrs. McKinley before continuing late into the night. The account highlights Hanna’s involvement in wartime strategy discussions and the president’s insistence on shared quiet moments at home.
An exploration of greyhounds as an ancient fixed type found in India, Arabia, and Persia, noting Afghanistan examples and a Western interpretation. The piece cites a breeder claiming greyhounds as the fastest moving creation and discusses sight hunting, speed over stamina, and the ethics of coursing versus racing.
Mrs Hall aims to compliment friends on every occasion yet pleases some and disquiets others. An acquaintance asks if her gown at the reception was liked. Mrs Hall replies with a smiling, cordial hand pressure and declares the gown a dream until she realises it was not.
A London Opinion fragment notes a parson startled by being called old for the first time. The exchange features She and Enthusiastic Motorjet joking about a motor accident and survival, with a quip on aging attributed to O. W. Holmes.
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