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Newspaper
Sandersville Herald
Location
Sandersville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
6
A New York Tribune clipping explains the lucky bag aboard ships and within naval academies. It describes monthly collection of lost items from jackknives to photographs and chewing tobacco, illustrating common sailor possessions and the practice of reclaiming them.
A college girl recalls a missionary sermon that urged women to become fishers of men. She notes the audience’s snickers at the hopeful appeal and the missionary’s complaint of a “deplorable spirit of levity” among the students.
Sir Henry Roscoe recalled meeting an American in Europe who dismissed Vesuvius as a spectacle. He noted Americans lack such eruptions but claim a river could extinguish Vesuvius in five minutes.
Mrs X asks about missing pins on her dressing table. Her son, newly studying Latin, quips that the pins fall to earth and become ter rapins in a playful moment captured by Harper's Weekly.
A survey party in eastern Texas reports Mose the cook angrily describing hogs raiding camp. He laments the ravenous hogs devouring edible and inedible provisions, concluding with a humorous exclamation that the animals truly are hawgs.
Sir Spencer Walpole argues that Homer's world was a small, flat Greece bounded by surrounding seas and distant Africa and Egypt. He notes Homer’s limited view of geography, compares it to Gulliver’s travels, and contrasts the ancient sea with modern oceans, showing why Homer’s Mediterranean felt vast to him.
A Philadelphia Press quip notes the man lacks formal qualifications for acting yet has an unexpected inheritance a fur lined overcoat and high hat from a deceased friend. The remark emphasizes irony about sudden social ascent through luck rather than training.
A Philadelphia Record item notes a messenger boy immobile for an hour as Blobbs contemplates him as an ideal chess player. The scene plays out with dry humor in a concise urban vignette.
The piece explains the variety of Chinese dialects and the shared written characters. It notes Mandarin’s wide reach, Wen-li as the classical written form, and the difficulty of mastering the 40 000 plus characters, with only about one in ten people literate.
Accounts gathered by London Tit-Bits recount numerous resuscitations after hanging. Notable cases include Inetta de Balsham spared by Henry III, a Swiss man whose windpipe bone prevented fatality, and Margaret Dickson known as Half Hanged Maggie. Stories mention reprieves, revived prisoners, and improvised methods before the use of the dropping execution.
A young actress grouses at the pompous actor manager in their company. He boasts of casting her in a fat dandy part to study him in farce. She retorts she has already seen his Macbeth in past performances.
A young culprit recalls a teacher’s grievance over punishment for lying stories. The student quips that the discipline hurt the teacher more than it did him, and the teacher’s response notes the hurt was caused by the lies told.
A friend asks Mr. Cumrox if he feels well and he replies not very. He cannot go home because his mother and sisters are hosting a tea and he is not invited. The quip ends that misery may love company but does not entertain it well.
The text touts WASS as a proven skin lotion not created in a day but adopted by many customers over years. It claims rapid growth in demand and large scale manufacturing with confidence, asserting it has no equal on the market today.
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