Marry in haste and repent at leisure remark
A witty exchange about marriage, wealth, and leisure contrasts haste with comfort. The dialogue underscores differing attitudes toward marriage and financial security in a light social moment.
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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1912
Page
6
A witty exchange about marriage, wealth, and leisure contrasts haste with comfort. The dialogue underscores differing attitudes toward marriage and financial security in a light social moment.
The excerpt compiles wry lines on temperance golf and reform from Philip Sidney to George Ade. It juxtaposes advice on health with humor about play and marriage, concluding that reform often needs reforming.
A silver continental currency dollar and related varieties, including the Birmingham produced pattern, are showcased at the Numismatic Convention in Chicago. The piece, owned by H. O. Granberg of Oshkosh, Wis., is valued around $5 000 and stands among the rarest U S coins with unique design features and spelling errors.
Southern Pacific train crew resigns after reports of alligators in crates. Burly brakeman and others describe seeing 509 live alligators, 1500 alligator eggs, and 200 bullfrogs delivered to EV Earnest, owner of an Los Angeles alligator farm at Eastlake Park.
Wilkes Barre reports a sequence of misfortunes for Albert Hughes of Forksville Sullivan County. He burns gloves on a fireplace while preparing logs, slips splashing into hot water injuring his legs, cuts a four inch gash with a butcher knife, scorches himself near a rendering kettle, and later risks choking on a bone requiring a doctor.
A priceless copy of the Yom Kippur Katon Hebrew prayer book, dated 1730 and crafted in Presburg, is in the Jacobson family of Kargis City. Abert Jacobson holds it at 1231 Walnut Street while customs ruled it non taxable as a book. The artifact, hand painted with gold, survived generations and may stay with Bernhard Jacobson's heirs in Berlin.
Fragmentary OCR notes refer to a medical procedure involving tongue removal and a patient in Pittsburgh Massachusetts with doctors Charles H Richardson and Tracy. The text is incomplete and unclear about a full event or outcome.
A Kansas City man reported to the gas company that his meter was running slow. The incident highlights honesty as a rare virtue in utility readings and reflects local sentiment on fair billing.
Thomas J. Webb of Chicago argued in a Hold-Up Before the Coffee Roasters Association that Brazil backs a government financed coffee combine shaping world prices. He claimed Brazil imposes export duties and a quota system to keep supply tight and profits high, making Americans pay famine prices for coffee. November 1911.
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