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Newspaper
Rockport Democrat
Location
Rockport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
3
The excerpt satirizes gossip about discreet friends and Justice perceived as a woman’s form. It notes changing opportunities via telephone and a cheeky price tactic to remove spots. It contrasts truth with expediency and warns that preaching and practice often diverge.
Eastern Division ticket office announces daily train times from Rockport to Evansville and intermediate points with hourly stops from 6:30 a m to 6:30 p m and connections to Richland, Hatfield, and Lake P O. Freight schedule shown with a 3:45 p m Rockport to Evansville departure.
A reflective aphorism on human desires and gratitude. The speaker notes that few achieve full satisfaction, compares unfulfilled wants to spoilt children, and cites not being asked to fill out an assessor’s blank while moving. It finishes with a ribbing about monetary habits and a proverb about not picking geese from a gooseberry bush.
A French actor Hyacinthe participates as a sergeant in a national guard unit fighting insurgents behind a barricade. A general plans to force exposure of an insurgent, proposing a risky maneuver with sailors order. Hyacinthe humorously suggests the general would attract the insurgent more, offering to assist.
The Westminster Gazette notes a long standing custom at Middle Temple where a warder sounds a silver horn at 5 30 p m. from Fountaincourt to Crown office row to signal 6 p m. dressing for dinner. The beadle like warder endures ten minutes of horn blasts amid light taunts from porters.
In a comic exchange from Pearson's Weekly a husband proclaims himself the engineer of the establishment while his wife, wielding a rolling pin, declares she is the boiler ready to blow up and eject him. He asks how he can help with housework.
A Scottish country minister known for rough delivery jokes with a congregation spinster. While sharing tea, he notes the teapot spout is choked or narrow. Miss Kennedy retorts that this mirrors the minister with an arduous delivery, saying it does not run well.
A humorous exchange about language and a French waiter. Johnson asks if his wife speaks French and Thompson quips she thinks so. A waiter’s facial reaction to her attempt becomes the punchline.
The London Chronicle notes the Cardiff castle estate with a vast park and gardens rated at 924 pounds yearly, while nearby lands worth millions show a tailor’s shop only 200 yards away rated at 947 pounds, highlighting under assessment in England.
A man with a fear of stuttering approached a railroad ticket window and asked the price to go to New York by freight. The astonished agent questions the idea as the man explains his stammer prevents speaking clearly.
A sharp remark exposes Annie Nibbins as a master of withholding herself while provoking others to reveal their secrets, highlighting a social dynamic where silence conceals truth and gossip spreads through indirect prompts.
A proverb-like reflection highlights that success comes from persistent work and repeated resolutions rather than sudden jumps. It emphasizes steady progress through patience and resolve.
Major George Q. Squier leads a proposal to erect balloon houses and depots along the U S coast in ellipses about 250 miles long. The plan envisions a coast wide dirigible network with vertical searchlights and an auxiliary airplane fleet to patrol and relay orders. Cost is expected to be very high and congressional approval awaited.
Father prefers spending the vacation in nature free from dress needs and fishing scenery. Mother desires a room for her trunk and new outfits, prioritizing fashion over other comforts. Sister seeks private spaces for two, keeping the old suit ever new, while ignoring the view.
President Taft stated at Pittsburg that baseball is the cleanest, finest, and most manly sport. He praised the Pittsburg versus Chicago game, while voicing dislike for bunting and hinting he prefers hits and slugging. The remarks came during a Sunday gathering at T. E. Laughlin Jr.’s residence.
The McClean-Lissak automatic gun, claimed largest in the world, fired 250 three pound shells per minute over Lake Erie during a test. Inventor S. N. McClean of Cleveland says it could mow down infantry, with crew of ten, travel at 25 mph, and replace cannister loads with 100 shells per load.
Disappointed supporters of Mayor Albert Fehrman of Elgin organize a "mutt" club to vent frustration from the municipal election. They draft a dummy cabinet with eighteen invited mutts assigned to imagined department heads, sharing banquets and plans for imagined posts.
The Kiangsu section of the Shanghai Hangchau railway in China was officially opened with a train of officials on the Shanghai section. Through traffic to Hangchau is anticipated in about three months. Chinese engineers and capital built the line. rails were made in China. rolling stock and bridges were supplied by Americans.
Professor Bliss Perry spoke on “The Coherent Life” at the Boston University commencement. He criticized the simple and strenuous life doctrines as overdone and urged a life guided by coherent thoughts to steady the march of humanity.
Henry Savage Landor arrives in London after studying the canal zone project. He praises American effort and calls the engineers and staff, especially the young army officers in charge, highly capable and enthusiastic.
Professor Frank Bush of Harvard Corp botanist recently returned to Courtney Missouri reports discovery of a new persimmon variety found during a tree hunt in southern Missouri. The fruit is large and luscious with a flattened shape and only one or two seeds.
Mashville and Shelbyville sightings report two balloons from the national distance race for the Aero Club of America and the Indiana Aero club trophy. The Indianapolis entry won by flying eighteen miles south of Scottsville Kentucky, while the Chicago and Ohio landings followed in Tennessee and Indiana. Indiana landed for water at Shackle Island, Tenn., then moved toward Goodlettsville near Nashville.
The balloon University City with John Berry and John McCullough landed at Blanche in Fayette County at 7 last night. The aeronauts were overnight guests of D. M. Sanders and began their return trip by rail today.
A balloon launched from Indianapolis crossed Fort Payne Alabama at 5 p m Sunday. The craft carried two passengers and traveled southeast at an altitude of about one mile.
Seventy nine new woods were discovered in Papua by a Queensland government expert. The woods suit cabinet making ornament boats piles railway carriages girders and other uses with many along the Pa puan rivers. Port Moresby imposes a rent charge on these lands rather than free lease.
The passage argues that agreeableness is a composite talent. It notes easy manners and sweetness of temper as powers to please without effort, wit, wisdom, or learning, sometimes practiced without awareness of the effect. It questions the costs or defiance involved in such charm.
Mr. Wayback struggles with a stubborn bureau drawer and declares after five minutes, Got ram the bulky thing, anyway! No wonder the gover'ment is abolishin' all bureaus from the navy depart ment. The line appears in the Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
The article urges embracing three core religious virtues faith hope and charity as the path to moral improvement. It emphasizes that regardless of past faults holding to these principles helps believers trust that righteousness will prevail and fosters compassion toward others seeking a better future.
A four year old observes sunshine after persistent rain and proclaims with wonder that God is a caution, reflecting a charming moment captured in The Delineator.
A discussion notes air has no fixed weight per volume. A cubic foot at sea level weighs about 1,700 grains. at 10,000 feet it would be roughly half, about 850 grains, causing the volume to expand to two cubic feet.
An Oberhofmeisterin at the Berlin palace is described as a court chamberlain in petticoats who must meet every lady personally before she attends a court event.
A treatise notes that the Order of Sidonia, established in 1870 by King John of Saxony, honors noble women for humanitarian work. The order commemorates Duchess Sidonia, important matriarch of the Albertine line.
A concise quotation attributed to the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table notes that sin employs many tools but is guided by a single overarching handle. The line emphasizes a unifying principle behind wrongful acts.
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