09 Mar 1917
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Newspaper
Sierra County Advocate
Location
Hillsboro, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1917
Page
1
At a Lenox dinner, Joseph Choate described a 1860s case of a workman claiming total left eye blindness. The judge used a green chalk sentence and colored spectacles to reveal the deception, dismissing the man as an impostor.
The piece recalls President Buchanan near Lancaster Pennsylvania where crowds gathered at the turnpike owner Abe Cassel's road. Buchanan asks to abolish tolls to attract visitors, Cassel promises to consult directors, toll concessions granted, then post election the home is ringed by office seekers and campaign busyness.
Two years ago Sewell Ford moved to Rye New York and learned neighbor Simeon Ford ran a hotel exchange. A telephone exchange led Simeon to accuse Sewell of a meat bill, with Sewell offering to pay if Simeon pays his bill. No settlement reached.
A Washington Star dispatch notes deadly gun accidents in Brockton Massachusetts and Bangor Maine where children found and used loaded firearms. The piece argues that ninety nine percent of gun accidents could be avoided by common sense and criticizes keeping loaded guns in homes with children.
In early days San Juan statesman Tom Bowen rides to Leadville when a highway raid by Billy Le Roy's gang erupts. A pistol wielding bandit threatens, but Bowen cannot resist an itch in his nose and is helped by a road agent who scratches the nuisance with his gun. Lute Wilcox in Denver Field and Form.
Three Cherokee lawmakers in Congress including Senator Owen and Representatives Chandler Hastings occupy a strained moment in national politics. A foreigner denied army entry over height returned naturalization papers and refused citizenship. An Indianapolis man clung to a telegraph pole and recounted a tumultuous marriage with brief, conflicting wage details.
A cryptic remark implies the origin of profanity lies in the motor, suggesting a figurative focal point rather than a literal component. The line reads as a metaphor about where strong language emerges in a mechanical context.
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