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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1902
Page
4
A historical note describes winter porpoises as fattest and most oil rich. It details sizes up to seven feet long with blubber weights around 1060 pounds, yielding oil for lamps and house use. Porpoise hunting occurs year round, with oil quality noted and a caution about sharks scavenging wounded prey.
A Paris milliner Worth rebukes a noblewoman who protests paying 120 pounds for a ball dress. He argues art commands fair compensation and compares to Meissonier asking payment for a painting with basic materials. He concludes art does not bow to petty discounts.
A Philadelphia man searches the newspaper for a better cook by visiting listed addresses in a cab but balks after a cook mocks him. The tale contrasts his attempt with his wife’s ongoing domestic agency and includes a royal anecdote about Princess Charlotte’s fiery temper and a lesson from a book.
The article traces wheels as early as 1500 B C with Chaldeans Greeks and Egyptians and notes the bicycle wheel as a descendant of ancient wood sections. It also argues against using the cane for school punishment and endorses the birch as the humane option for small boys with limited harm when applied moderately.
A college weekly contrasts Yale and Harvard football culture. It notes Harvard coaches chant literary lines like Pierce the Hue with fierceness while Yale injects tougher, energetic taunts such as Dive into them and sock it to them.
City Missionary quotes a tale of a man who spent all he had to send a daughter abroad to study music. She returned two years later a famed singer and refused to acknowledge him. He moves east to live on a pittance, sending twenty dollars weekly for clothes, which she wastes while she neither writes nor sees him.
December has carried many names since the year began in March. Early Saxons called it Winter Monat, later Heligh Monat after Christianity, then Christ Monat in Germany. The month was linked to warm torches, chimney issues giving it Fosmus or smoky, and hoarfrost earning Canus or hoary.
Careful estimates of cyclone force show a West Indian cyclone generating over 400 million horsepower. The energy would dwarf all human and animal power combined, far beyond steam, water mills, or wind power.
A gentleman mailed twenty intimate friends asking for a pound loan. Thirteen gave no reply, five declined, two promised repayment but did not, one sent ten shillings, and only three sent the full amount. The man and his correspondents are all well off.
A joke exchange notes aging when a man prefers staying by the fire over sleigh riding. It cites Henry and John and the Detroit Free Press as the source of the quip.
A compilation of quotations from Lowell Mazzini Garfield Lavater Carlyle and others highlights how vivid phrases turn ordinary ideas into memorable illustrations. The piece notes how context and personal framing give weight to brief maxims. It reflects on metaphor as a literary device in familiar lines.
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