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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1910
Page
4
The term impertinent originated as not belonging to any master. Wycliffe used it to mean lacking earthly lords authority rather than cheekiness. Shakespeare adopted imper to mean irrelevant. About 200 years ago the sense shifted to absurd or silly.
In Bingur, Malay archipelago, two necked bottles sit neck to neck with sand in one. Sand pours into the other every half hour as bottles are reversed. A nearby line of 12 notched rods marks the hours while an attendant sounds the gong to indicate time.
The Paris municipal council ends the office of organizer of funereal pomp, a figure who led funerals in a three cornered hat dress coat and wall coat with a city scarf and ebony cane. In Lincolnshire England a long serving nurse dies. four of her sons, also her former patients, lead large families today.
A collection of quips and anecdotes about wealth and power. It notes how a wealthy person might act in Washington or Europe, cites earl of Digin and Gladstone as examples, and discusses a cavalry note about horses globally. It closes with a marketplace style exchange about trusting newspaper notes.
An old-time friend notes changing social anxieties as Mrs Cumrox says mothers and daughters now guard society just as they once sought entry, reflecting evolving norms about social access. The Washington Star quote captures a moment of social shift and gender expectations.
Dr. W C Farabee of Harvard University’s anthropological department will lead a research expedition to the headwaters of the Amazon with a large student party. The journey is planned for next year and may establish a base at Arequipa, Peru, lasting three years.
New railway track totaling 2,297.20 miles was laid in the country for the six months ending June 20, the largest in fifteen years except for 1902 when 4,814 miles were built. The report highlights a record pace in rail infrastructure expansion this period.
Correspondencia de Espana reports 16 civilians killed and 70 injured in a bombing in Calle Mayor. A horse pulling the royal couch was found with 28 bullets lodged in its body.
Nearly four tons of gold were piled up in the assay office to Seattle recently. The bulk had been received from the north. The arrival on cold did not excite much interest in the city.
From nursery direct to the planter Stark Trees are sold at 25 percent discount to mail order buyers. Heretofore Stark Trees were sold through salesmen with commission paid. commissions are saved by dealing direct with planters in irrigated valleys and orchard regions of the west. Our Catalogue Price List.
In a Pittsford area incident a farmer Conrad Hoa nick left his wagon with two boys aboard near a railroad. A passing train startled the team causing a runaway. A dog from Frank Tousley’s farm leaped after the wagon and tried to seize the reins. The dog died after being struck by a wheel while attempting to save the boy and halt the runaway.
Jesse Cochran a Seattle citizen aged 85 sails for Skagway to seek fortune in Alaska after losing wealth on the San Francisco stock exchange. Once a prosperous man he now earns a meager living as a sign painter, has two well-off Seattle sons ready to aid him, yet still travels alone to the gold fields.
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