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Newspaper
Spencer News
Location
Spencer, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1909
Page
7
A column describes cooking ideas including veal pie and tongue sauce from The Boston Cooking School Cook Book and offers a light note on a feminine aeroplane costume with a trousers suggestion and a head covering, comparing to Eskimo women. It also explains orange salad with lettuce bed and mayonnaise.
Fashion notes declare fur remains dominant with large bars and long stoles from Paris imports. Skunk bands appear on coats and trims, sealskin grows in popularity though Arctic seas shrink, and various fox and caracal furs linger in demand.
A dialogue sketches contrasts between a landlubber turned yachtsman and seasoned sailors. The Old Skipper likens Mr Inlander to a landsman afloat, while other characters joke about feather beds and hair, revealing a lighthearted, witty exchange in a parlour setting.
A tale recounts a mayoral temptation faced by William M. Grace of New York and the moral testing of political figures amid a bribery invitation. Grace recalls a framed parcel of gilt edged securities offered to sway his veto of a public utility franchise, illustrating the hidden shifts in character that can govern urban reform.
A dialogue ranges over loss and hope regarding Nmb, with a child noting a deep removal at infancy and skepticism about restoration. The exchange hints at belief in an afterlife remedy contrasted with personal experience of absence and doubt. The skewed language captures a vivid, intimate moment in a distressed life narrative.
The article surveys famed boxers and their signature punches, noting how right or left hooks from Johnson, Gans, Jeffries, and others floored rivals. It traces techniques from Hyer to Corbett, Sullivan, Dempsey, and Fitzsimmons, highlighting strategic jaw and stomach targets and the evolution of one punch dominance.
An antebellum Kentucky planter Colonel Atoore owned many enslaved people and behaved as a kind master. A slave named Jupe, accused of theft, was whipped and sent to the woods. During a thunderstorm a poplar tree struck by lightning split, scattering wood. Jupe, hiding beneath a brush heap, survived, and in the aftermath there was a taunting remark about using lightning on the slave.
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