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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1914
Page
7
Charles R Knight, famed for dinosaur and ancient animal paintings, emphasizes he is a painter sculptor of modern animals. He recalls visiting zoos in Washington and other cities to study living models, recounting a brief anecdote involving a visitors amid sketches of habitats and landscapes.
An amused porter notices rice on the young woman's hair as a happy couple bound for Scotland change trains at Carliale. He presents a folded map labeled with blue pen marks indicating tunnel locations and depths, jokingly calling it a railway map while the Voyager reveals the gift’s practical joke.
A dialogue fragment voices hostility to organizations and the police trust. A tired business man recalls theater work and quitting, saying plays exhausted him and raised questions about belonging and influence in public life.
Boston judge Michael J. Murray tells a Twentieth Century cult meeting that drunkenness is the era’s chief issue. He cites 104000 court appearances for drunkenness in the year ending Oct 1 1913 and argues against separate institutions, urging abolition of liquor’s influence behind crimes.
An excerpt from a sermon titled The Man Slayer in Gur Midat by Rev. Dr. Manley Benson argues law can dry up liquor sources and curb temptations while quoting Sir Frederick Treves on the harm of alcohol. The piece compares revenue losses to social costs and urges prohibition as public safety.
A German government commission compared ten families of drunkards with ten of moderate drinkers. It found 42 percent of the children of drunkards die within months of birth versus 5 percent for moderate drinkers. Among drunkards' offspring, 10 percent are idiots, a percent epileptics, a percent dwarfs, while only 7 percent develop normal intelligence.
At the diamond jubilee of the United Kingdom alliance in Manchester England Dr W Suleeby declared alcohol a racial poison that reinforced other racial polons and said public houses were centers for disease distribution. He urged that the fight against tuberculosis and other diseases be joined with the fight against alcohol.
A recluse Patrick Coughlin died aged 72 in New Britain Conn leaving 60000 to 20 nephews and widows. He lived on two dollars a day eating bread and onions. The piece notes the unusual bequest pattern and the deceased’s frugal life. تهران
A collage of humorous anecdotes and quips from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page. Topics range from marriage and gardening to storm fear and a Civil War veteran’s reflections, interleaved with regional dialect jokes and brief notices. The piece preserves period tone with snippets of dialogue, comic asides, and satirical portraits.
Barab Shafter, thirteen, of Lon Anetes, Cal, acted as a tiny hero when her five year old sister shattered her elbow. Dr Edward Wiley guided over the phone how to apply a splint as Sarah and the ambulance helped the patient to the receiving hospital. The father was at the county hospital and the mother visited him. Maybelle was tall and broke her warm. Sarah called the hospital due to distance and then again for help.
A five year old girl suffered a painful facial eruption mistaken for ringworm with watery blisters and itching. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment as directed, she improved steadily and was completely cured in a few months. The ad promotes Cuticura samples and a skin book.
Hidden within a fragment of New York society chatter, critic Jeannette Gilder toys with playful images of a pink and gold fructache pup as a discussion unfolds about taste both spiritual and material. A young fortune hunter considers marrying for money while his mother weighs a Western girl's large, vague fortune and flaws.
The head of a Washington family is asked about his son nearing majority who wants to become an artist. The father wryly asks no drawing on me, while ads promote Hanford products and quips about pride and hunger. The fragment references Hanford’s Dale, Myrrh, and swallows pride in a gossip-like note.
Kana an City Missouri woman credits Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound with fertility and relief from monthly pains after doctors foresaw she could not bear children. A Kansas City reader notes two healthy daughters following treatment. A Cumming Georgia resident reports improved appetite sleep and energy after using the remedy and recommends it to others.
A Chicago dramatic critic praises Bob Hilttardt as handsome and elegant while recalling a promenade with him. He notes a long cigarette tube and quips about tobacco use, then shifts to advertising Hanford's Bal Fig as a horse conditioning wash used by trainers to prevent lameness and keep skin in fine condition.
A foreign observer notes an unusually large crowd at a ball game with no tango dancing. The description emphasizes the crowd’s size and a sense of surprise at the event.
A brief riddle shows a student spending one third of a sum and a portion of the remainder, with a playful reply from Tommy indicating a pun or mispronunciation. The fragment hints at a vintage classroom joke about fractions and money. The exact sum is not stated in the readable text.
A terse jailhouse dialogue fragment hints at a visitor claiming a love interest and referencing possessions and a call to action, but the text is incomplete and lacks concrete facts or outcomes. The readable lines suggest a casual, improvised conversation between a visitor and a prisoner without discernible event or resolution.
In a witty aside the piece notes a modest maid as the pick of propriety and recalls how offending her sense of propriety makes her blush. It jokes that a dressmaker’s worries exceed those of a husband for Fortunate women.
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