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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1924
Page
6
A youth sits in the dentist chair wearing a striped silk shirt and checked suit with a vacant stare. The dentist frets about using gas, asking how he will know when the patient is unconscious.
In a playful exchange drawn from the New York Sun and Globe a girl fears her sister is reading a French novel piece. A Second Mother questions the claim while the First Mother mentions a talk about a Sook and a garter during one night.
R Rispin an Englishman from Alvaston Derby displays astonishing penmanship. He writes the Lords Prayer in eight languages on a space twice the size of a British three-penny piece and the Lord's Prayer on half a dollar. He compression writes Genesis 800+ words on a postage stamp sized sheet. He spent 82 hours writing the 9000 word Worth conspiracy report on a postcard.
A Cosmo Hamilton profile recalls Oscar Wilde in London after Oxford as he courted Mrs. Langtry by presenting a single flower each night at Covent Garden. Her patience wore thin and Wilde was asked to stop but lingered, until she allowed renewed attentions and him to assist her from her carriage.
A fragment notes that a person driven by the desire for glory is most prone to commit injurious deeds, suggesting fame fuels aggressive behavior and impulsive violence.
A French hair specialist claims starched collars cause baldness in men by pressing on veins and restricting blood circulation. He argues women are not affected as they do not wear tight stiff collars at forty.
A French student discovering a slip inside a second-hand copy of Paul and Virginia learns of a posthumous bequest. The note promises 23,700 statcs to the finder who presents it at the office of Monsieur Jean Riel, and the notary confirms the payment after waiting years.
A storyteller asks children to raise questions and a student asks if the prince should have used a cart instead of his white horse to carry coal, prompting a clarification about the royal image and urban behavior.
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