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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1923
Page
5
A newly opened grocery shop owner staged a social prank to impress a visitor by feigning a phone order. The ruse backfired when a bystander misinterpreted the act and mistook the owner for offering service.
Speed of the Gulf Stream averages about three miles an hour with surface currents reaching up to 51 miles an hour in places. When illuminated by sunlight the rapid current can make the surface appear like a sheet of fire.
History notes a lavish Roman aristocrat hosted a supper for twelve that cost 240000 dollars. The banquet reportedly offered thousands of dishes including all known edible fish and fowl.
A humorous exchange about teaching a dog to wag his tail with a pun on axle reuse. The playful dialogue uses a dog as a character to elicit a wagging reaction and a lighthearted pun.
A Boston Transcript item recounts a four year old boy named Jack who repays his mother's spanking with a playful revenge. After bedtime prayer he excludes his mother from a blessing and asserts, you wasn’t it, in a sly, humorous moment.
An odd remark about swivel necks arises from a street observation comparing dangers from an airplane and a car. The claim echoes Darwinian ideas about development along suggested lines.
A U S government report over the last decade lists about 1,400 new and useful inventions by women, including a rotary plowshare, an egg beater, a cow tail holder, reinforced bowls for beating eggs, an artificial eyelash and other items.
A Toledo Blade reader note quotes a lecturer who says human beings are the most interesting things in the world and next to them are horses, joking that if horses could lecture we might learn the other side of the story.
A reflection on Artemus Ward’s joke about intellect versus willpower. The piece argues one can possess great sense yet lack the strength of mind to use it effectively. It emphasizes the difference between knowledge and disciplined application.
Mexican girls are courted by a unique process where lovers walk along the opposite curb and stare at their windows for hours. If the woman tolerates the gesture she appears at the window after a few days and they begin a courtship.
A Pisa location reports an unusual echo that ignores two sung notes but, when three notes are uttered, the sounds bounce between stones with growing force and resemble a distant high choir after a few seconds.
A resident in Ayrshire found a robin's nest on a road bank. The next day two boys stood nearby. one boy cried as he reported a weasel inside the nest bit his hand. The injured boy was sent home for medical care as weasel bites are considered potentially poisonous.
Bats are described as very particular about cleanliness washing their faces with the forepart of the wing and grooming their fur with hind claws. Young are born blind and helpless for two weeks, then cling to the mother and ride on her during flights at night.
Uncle Eben notes knowledge depends on use. He cites a man who has read the Bible five times yet only argues from it, illustrating practical limits of study without application.
A young aspiring writer defies expectations by seldom reading books that would sharpen his knowledge. This paradox highlights a tension between literary aspiration and the discipline of study in creative work.
A brief quip reflects on McMiser ceasing golf after starting, noting he has given it up because he lost his ball. The remark captures a light moment from a Boston Transcript item.
The highest radio station in the world sits 2,100 feet above Rio de Janeiro atop Mount Corcovado. Construction faced great risks to the workers.
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