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Newspaper
Sioux County Herald
Location
Orange City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1907
Page
6
Extracts from 1786 memoirs discuss oversized fashion for buttons and cameos on snuffboxes with high prices paid for engravings. Isabey recalls earning coins for medal works while Paris fashion favored large buttons with Cupid scenes. The piece also ventures into speculation on global uninhabited areas and climate adaptations.
The article notes that Liberia holds the most unexplored surface relative to its area, as locals stay mostly along the coast. It mentions rubber resources and a vast forest maze still uncataloged by Liberians, contrasting with other regions. It also discusses red coral used for jewelry and its hornlike composition.
A collage of humorous exchanges about Welsh rarebit cost vs dining alone, a quip on opposite marriage traits, a divorce joke, and a light note on theater lovers. Then a Nat u ralist recalls a monstrous Japanese spider crab and its disguise. The piece closes with petrified Little Colorado timber remains and geologic notes on jar and opal-like cores.
A Success Magazine tale notes a harsh New Hampshire hotel proprietor who restricted daily life for non guests. A chronic loafer faced a clock sign stating the timepiece was for guests only, illustrating the man's stern rule and the loafers' frustration.
Fragmentary text notes Mark Antony's wealth and Ti beries era figures. It mentions Antony's wealth near 735 million dollars and Tiberius leaving over eighteen, but details are incomplete and unclear.
The records detail Roman figures such as Caligulus spending 150000 for one supper and Perelius wasting 40000 in five dates. Clodius and Crassus are noted among estates valued at 38.46 million and Lucullus spending 5000 per meal. Lentulus and Apicus are listed with multi million riches and rapid spending.
A reader complains about Americanisms like limb for pranch and discusses the age of phrases and translations. The note cites examples from Gaulois and London Chronicle, including a tale of Plaisantin and a joke about false coins and a beggar with three wives and a pun about bigamy.
A witty exchange shows a sudden ultimatum amid a domestic scene. One partner demands two weeks to decide while the other agrees to think it over too, framing a brisk, lively moment in a sketching bit.
A police captain uses a crowd of newsboys to identify a teen thief by clothes found after a boat raid. The scheme leads to the boy’s confession of the robbery. Also a physician's view on common food poisoning patterns and overeating.
John Leech and Millais spent a night in an isolated wing at Cowdray Hall England amid rumors of haunting. Millais woke fearing a giant shake while Leech trembled beside him. They hid in the corridor until morning then learned a local earthquake had struck, which they took as the ghost.
Between Long Island and Watch Hill a chain of small islands holds quartz pebbles or agates with red yellow and purple colors. Sloops harvest them from beaches as waves polish the stones, supplying stained glass demand in New York.
Fragmentary excerpt traces El Dorado meaning through early linguistic notes by Spilows and Onie of Fi. reads as a historical gloss on legend and language origins with unspecified details.
The article recalls El Dorado as a land between the Orinoco and the Amazon, famed as a mythical country of endless riches. It notes adventurers, including Sir Walter Raleigh, sought it, giving El Dorado the sense of a golden, fabulous land akin to Cockaigne.
A seedy philosopher jokes about perfect happiness as his fourth visit to a free lunch counter. He muses about entering a fancy restaurant and ordering what he wants, ignoring the price list and a worried widow.
A father and mother debate the meaning of an egotist. The father says a man who thinks he is smarter than everyone else is an egotist, while the mother counters that such men claim superiority merely as men do.
A narrator describes a widow in deep mourning seeking a black dog from an animal seller. The seller offers options including white gray or brindled, but the widow insists on an all black hound.
Scene dialogue features Cupid and Puck in a witty exchange about archery and rhyme. Yeaus contends with daily life, while Cupid jokes about being occupied with rhyming.
A fragment attributing a Seneca maxim suggests a clownish person fails to feel anger while a 42 wise man stays calm. The line highlights restraint and folly in emotion.
The excerpt contrasts a grand sailing ship moving under its own grandeur with a hidden steam driven core beneath its hull. It praises the steadfast wife who sustains the genius, ensuring the vessel stays true despite perilous tides and waning winds. Holmes frames loyalty as the unseen engine behind achievement.
A miscommunication at the irisband with a fondness for sponge cake leads to a humorous line about receiving the wrong kind of sponges from a druggist. The fragment captures a light, domestic mishap.
A fragment quotes Mr. Meekton's wife asking about the secret of Solu tion's wisdom while Leonidas answers with remark on many wives. The Washington Star snippet implies a witty exchange reflected in early 20th century prose.
Little Margie tells Mamma she would share candy with Papa only if he is polite and refuses first. Chicago News notes the family dialogue.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a customer asks for a product to take hair and a clerk suggests a wastebasket as a joke. The brief vignette captures store humor and everyday banter.
Excerpt from Outing Magazine by Vance Thompson describes a desolate caravan settlement outside Montronge where performers and their families endure winter. Families live in two-room vans with makeshift stores, while smoke rises from chimneys and gaudy rags dry on lines.
Leila Mechlin argues in Century that despite shifting tastes, true beauty is recognized across civilizations. She cites the Greek temple Babylonian pottery oriental paintings and Whistler’s nocturnes as examples of rhythm harmony and proportion that endure beyond criticism.
The speaker laments the burden of always being on stage to amuse others at gatherings. He says ordinary moods vanish as he is sought for jokes, while hosts glare when he fails to entertain, noting his son should avoid the same fate of insistent laughter.
Dryden in finishing Virgil sent his manuscript to Jacob Tonson for payment but Tonson offered less. Dryden replied with a biting verse description of the publisher, prompting Tonson to pay. Manghapir near Karachi hosts hot waters famed for lep rsy care with many bathers cured. Crocodiles inhabit the hot waters attracting interest at the health resort. Tales claim hair turning white under terror from Queen Marie Antoinette to Rothschild and a rebel Sepoy after the mutiny.
The Sioux City Daily News offers a one year subscription for $1.00. The paper proclaims independence from corporations and politics, targeting busy readers and families. A club option combines The Verato and The Sioux Cry Daily News for $2.25 per year.
For 30 years Leslie’s Popular Monthly offers a limited time deal. Get November and December 1906 issues with a full 1907 subscription for $1.00 to receive 14 numbers, two novels, 95 stories, 28 poems, 70 articles and 800 pictures. Mail name and address with payment to The American Magazine, 141 Fifth Avenue, New York City.
Superintendent complains that the firm’s head forces employment of his son in the department. He argues that keeping him busy would merely shunt errors onto others, implying the son’s work would require frequent corrections by three or four other men.
A prosperous farmer says he learned years ago that even moderate drinking would ruin him. He resolved to quit and did so, citing the proverb about the drunkard and poverty. The Central Christian Advocate reports this succinct personal reform tale.
A playful exchange recalls Julius Caesar and a claim of his strength. The daughter asks if he was one of the strongest men ever, referencing a tale of throwing a bridge over the Rhine, spurring a fatherly reaction.
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