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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
6
The London Chronicle recalls Mr. V. Lucas and a garden inscription about tea and shrimps. It notes Vladivostok tariff effects aiding Japan and convicts in Missouri harvesting wheat. It covers temperance among Latin Americans, and 18th century banquet terms for carving game and birds.
Professor Flinders Petrie reports discovery at Memph is uncovering the palace of King Apries Hophra a contemporary of Jeremiah armor and bronze divine figures found in ruins among other antiquities.
A New York author with a Maine cottage received farm produce from a visiting down east farmer. The farmer boasted keeping five cows and a bull, two yokes of oxen, a horse, and three shares of Maine Central, revealing a rural pride in his stock and holdings.
A 1873 Richmond duel tale centers on Miss Mary Triplett, John Mordecai, and Mary’s rejected suitor McCarty. After insults and a published verse, Mordecai vows retribution, a Richmond club confrontation leads to a duel at Oakwood with Colts revolvers. Both miss, then Mordecai is mortally wounded and dies days later.
A collection of pointed aphorisms on social behavior and gender roles. The paragraphs critique niceties, trust, superiority, home harmony, and romance with wry humor. It comments on women’s imagination, aging, and shopping habits in sharp social sketches.
In the Lewisville Times the office boy answers a call about the longitude of Louisville. He warns the caller the sporting editor is out, promising to relay details in an hour. The anecdote blends newsroom humor with a quip on local sports reporting.
Newport notes a public nuisance as tourist buses parade past Bellevue avenue with megaphones praising and belittling summer estates. Residents and city leaders resist the irritant while cottages sit vacant, and social elites endure the spectacle with mixed patience as crowds gawk at famed families and hedgegrowth. Reflections from the New York Press insert a lighthearted finale.
Mrs. William Ellis Corey once Mabelle Gilman captivates Paris society as wealth and beauty draw attention. The Coreys entertain at their Virgenis chateau near Paris, hosting dinners and a lunch honoring Prince George of Leuckenberg and Duke Alexander with guests including Jean de Reske and Count Murat.
The Lancet notes flies spread disease and that weak formaldehyde solutions can exterminate them. A two teaspoonfuls per pint of water attracts and kills flies, many falling into the solution or near the plate, reducing the pest while using a fluid fatal to disease organisms and largely non-poisonous.
A collage of rustic vignettes presents summer on the hill with a cow and cud chewing, a bog frog splashing, a buglet under trees, a bumble bee, hoppergrass skipping, a weary caterpillar, and a busy road near a windmill. A modern farmhouse kitchen shows canned goods in rows as farmers seek payment.
The Washington Post notes a 20,607 patient count in New York asylums on October 1, up 1,414 from last year, the largest in state history. It cites urban haste, endless schedules, and social pressures as the root cause, warning Americans to rethink money as the ultimate goal.
The New York Times recounts a House floor exchange where Speaker Cannon silenced an insurgent speech by accepting a quip from Sun Set Cox. Cox offered to yield time as long as Cannon kept his hands in his pockets, and the speaker began to speak, only to see them burst from hiding as Cox concluded with a sly twist.
A fragmentary poem warns against revealing a dark tale or hidden skeletons in a closet that could bring grief, sorrow, and long-lasting dismay. It urges forgetting such knowledge to protect joy and happiness.
Rochester Herald cites John Sharp Williams recalling Republican fears over tariff revision and infant industries while sharing a Mississippi prayer meeting tale about a sinner seeking forgiveness from a grand jury. The Vatican observatory is to be moved to the top of Vatican Hill after a recent reorganization.
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