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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1909
Page
8
In a park Simmons recounts a Paris romance involving a French governess in Rome and a prankster Turpin who translates across phones. The story ends with a marriage arranged by Turpin and a self-aware quip about not possessing a native accent.
The text notes shifts in meal timing in the sixteenth century as described by Morrison. It contrasts earlier practices with new norms where breakfast fades, dinners and suppers anchor the day, nobles dine by 11 and sip by 5, merchants and farmers adjust around noon and early evening, and scholars in universities dine at 10, reflecting changing social eating patterns.
A young French author Martainville faces the revolutionary tribunal led by Fouquier. Accused of aristocratic rank, he protests that his name should not be shortened. The tribunal, amused by his wit, spares his life despite the era’s guillotine.
The 1883 Krakatoa eruption near Sunda Strait released a cubic mile of material and sent dust 17 miles high. Its atmospheric shockwaves circled the globe seven times and the sonic impact was heard thousands of miles away.
A small man entered a large hotel’s commercial room and pulled the bell violently. After no reply he rang again, prompting a servant to ask who rang the bell. The man boasted that he did, and the servant mocked him about lifting him up to reach the bell.
A fragmentary dialogue shows a millionaire arguing that the beggar has no grounds to envy him. The beggar retorts that the millionaire faces troubles too, with garbled speech suggesting mispronunciation or dialect. The scene hints at class tension and shared hardship in a rough exchange.
A missionary in Trinidad asked a Negro sitting by the roadside how he passed time. The reply was quaint and philosophical, “T silta do sun, massa, and let do time pass me,” reflecting a view on idle moments and simple wisdom.
A Civil War era tale recounts a U S regiment in Cuba where sentry post No 8 repeatedly vanished without a sound. John Henderson later confesses how a pretty Spaniard girl lured him away, sparing him and sealing the fates of three others. The story ends with Henderson’s wife Mae Flenderson.
The largest barometer, a monument to Torricelli, rises thirty seven feet of olive oil liquid in Faenza Italy. Plans to use water failed due to evaporation, glycerin yielded twenty seven feet, olive oil proves lightest yet. A taller barometer may be built with a lighter liquid.
A Cincinnati Enquirer quip on a letter mishap where the postmaster advises writing state names in full to avoid mix ups. The exchange features Tenn and Penn abbreviations, and jokes about other abbreviations like Cal Neb Nev and N J. The piece preserves a humorous tone about postal errors and state initials.
The text muses on history as a running account of whether a king reached a place, noting history differs by narrator and perspective. It jokes that two elves shape history like two sides of a coin and contrasts Eden and American Heroism narratives, suggesting readers lack familiarity with the people involved.
An old intimate friend of the late French actress Duchenois recalls his sorrow at her death. He laments ingratitude, noting she left him nothing in her will despite dining at her house three times weekly for thirty years.
The fragmentary text offers no clear people places dates or events. It reads as a stray caption or note with disconnected words and incomplete phrases unlikely to form a coherent news item.
A man panics at a railroad station asking the fare to New York by freight and is startled by the agent. The exchange turns humorous as the man explains his limited speaking ability. The piece also touches on etymology tracing sharpness from ancient roots to modern words.
An exchange hints at millennia of enmity between families as one speaker notes surprise at Hix marrying his daughter. The other replies that the union bridges a feud, with the wife becoming son-in-law’s mother-in-law, signaling a dramatic twist in a long-standing rivalry.
The Independent district of Owase Iowa invites bids to add and reconstruct its school building. Plans are in the secretary Frank Jackson’s Owasa office and bids closed at noon July 12, 1909. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
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