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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1905
Page
6
A reflective piece contrasts a dreamy village scene with a doctor and his tame fish. A week of gradual fish taming leads to daily sightings of 100 to 150 pets playing around the healer in warm weather. The narrator urges daily small acts of kindness as true happiness.
A short guide urges saving cherished books by cloth bindings. It notes paper covers wear easily and offers a simple method using wine, cardboard, cheesecloth or muslin to create a sturdy protective binding.
The guide explains measuring the book, cutting two pasteboard covers, and adding cloth margins. It details attaching a cloth back, margins, and a cloth-backed front, then reattaching the book’s back and removing old paper covers if present. The result is a durable, attractive volume at half the bookstore price.
Players may take roles or split into actors and spectators. Each actor selects a proverb and acts it individually without contact with others. A sample shows one player pretending to drink from a slipping cup to illustrate There’s many a slip between the cup and the lip, aiming for engaging dumb show and clever interpretation.
Dr Rudolph Fastenrath of Appen Fell Switzerland tames wild fish into friendly pets. He began after noticing a daily swarm near his CHM house front. Holding bread underwater he and the fish gradually approached him and allowed touch and strokes.
A dinner party tale centers on Tom who feigns anger over missing nuts and raisins. Bridget is tricked into sewing two napkins with a middle seam creating a hidden bag. Tom hides the nuts beneath, then swaps napkins to reveal a full dish, drawing surprised cheers for home made sleight of hand.
The article contrasts ancient and Roman counting with modern arithmetic. It notes finger counting by Romans for numbers under one hundred, two abaci types, one with sand and figures and another with a fractional mechanism, and recalls Horace as a teacher who used harsh methods. It ends by praising twentieth century Americans.
A reflective note on daily learning and self-denial. It argues that one fact each day builds knowledge over time and that consistent practice makes future tasks easier. The text envisions daily effort expanding personal mastery and grace through repeated small challenges.
Ernest and Ralph Schoenhut and a girl from Pri helped a boy who was bitten by a rattlesnake while pulling bark. The girl cut his shirt, opened a wound, and sucked out the poison with a pen knife. Two physicians treated him. he is doing well.
A vintage craft note describes making a decorative shoe bag from one yard of red and cream ticking, turkey red calico, and black velvet. It details a back piece, a pocket for hose, four box pleated ticking packets, top corner bows, and a brass hanging ring, with guidance to attach inside a clothes-press door.
Eskimo folklore centers on human character through hero tales reflecting social life and beliefs. Supernatural forces are woven into daily reality via witches shamans and guardians, with few disconnected myths remaining. Notable stories describe a father mutilating a daughter to birth sea mammals and a tale of siblings becoming sun and moon in the sky.
A collage of humorous quotes and anecdotes from a late 19th or early 20th century source. It lampoons legal reform, social wit, and a honeymoon mishap at a skyscraper hotel. An advertisement touts Defiance Cold Water Starch claiming a 16 oz package, chemical-free and stain-free, for 10 cents.
A stenographer in Berlin begins a new industry by attending funerals of notable figures and recording verbatim the officiating clergymen’s addresses. He engraves copies and sells them to mourners, a profitable venture. Also retold is John Langton's tale of a Long Island Sound yacht party joke involving a mistaken remittance and a double charge.
The Chicago Journal critiques the government’s use of Garfield’s packers inspection as a prelude to prosecutions. It warns the pledge to keep findings out of court may bind federal action, calls for fair proof of conspiracy, and condemns alleged intrusive tactics like breaking into homes and pressuring workers. It stresses caution toward eastern offenders and preservation of due process.
A memory of an incident at Central reveals a lighthearted remark by a city merchant recalling a boyhood farm, joking about a feed chopper and cornstalks. In a separate exchange a dinner set is offered at 150 dollars with a request to mark it imitation to mislead a servant girl.
A New York Mall audience hears a sharp quip from a speaker about marital conduct. Mrs Ugliimugg lectures on handling her husband’s late nights, urging affection over scolding. A voice from the gallery agrees, saying it serves him right.
A garbled excerpt presents fragmented exchanges among characters including a youth, a clairvoyant, and a servant girl. The odd back and forth touches on mercy, money, and social roles with clipped phrases and abrupt shifts. Contains no clear event or outcome.
A witty observation notes that there is a great lack of telephone etiquette. The speaker jokes that someone likely kept the man waiting while he talked nonsense to the typewriter piv.
A terse exchange hints at a patient’s distress as an attendant confirms the dentist’s presence in a crowded waiting room. The dialogue skews toward irony, foregrounding miscommunication and unease among those seeking care.
A humorous note cites a New York florist claiming a thornless rose. It jokes the real thorns will affect a man buying roses for an ungrateful girl. The item stacks quirky misstatements and a Beoker trap as quoted in Harper’s Bazar.
Detroit Free Press reports a person avoids taking books from the public library on windy days due to fear of germs. A contrasting remark mentions one variety that wouldn’t hurt him, prompting questions about information germs.
The fragment reports praise for Pillsbury Vitos wheat, warnings about debt, and anecdotes from readers including Allen’s Foot-Hash and Dodd’s Kidney Pills. It notes a Connemara cemetery ritual with coffins, pipes, and ash rituals, then cites a Labrador or Idaho notice about kidney pills and healing claimed by Mrs. Martha J. Lee.
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