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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1906
Page
5
In Brede Castle a mysterious visitor arouses gossip and fear until late, when Lady Alice aids a hidden bond with Sir Richard Hardinge. The dying lord awakens to find Alice safe, and learns that love and kinship surpass money, while his son Harry reconciles through Sir Richard’s care.
The old two story stone lighthouse on a rock in the Hudson near Vesey and Greenwich streets dates back at least 140 years with no clear record of its origins. It survived as a shoeshop through centuries of change, and bones found in its cellar 25 years ago are linked to a famed 1850 murder of a young woman named Anna Jordan.
Paris reports Jacques Bommelaert the Dunkirk lifeboat captain and deputy mayor of Malo-les-Bains saved 160 lives during a long career. He led rescues off Gibraltar in Crimea times and steered the Susan Gray through a fatal sea to bring 18 men, a woman, and two children to safety after a Vesterlo wreck. He earned two silver medals, the Legion of Honor in 1891, and broad recognition from Britain and France for gallantry and humanity.
George Clifton Edwards, editor of Dallas Laborer and long time union worker, is nominated by the Socialists to run for Texas governor. Born December 23 1877 in Dallas he grew up there and was educated at Dallas public schools Sewanee Harvard and the Dallas high school where he was class orator in 1894. He later taught civics at Dallas High School until resigning in May. Edwards is noted as both a union man and a university trained scholar, challenging claims that socialism opposes labor and that socialists cater only to foreigners.
A beggar leaving a house meets another at the garden gate and asks about alms. The second notes the household is poor and jokes that peering through a window shows two ladies playing a piano. The remark implies low prospects for charity.
A Denver druggist explains in the Denver Post that chewing gum helps people quit habits. He cites tobacco, alcohol, and even drugs as examples where gum provides a mouthful of activity to curb urges. He jokes that someday men may chew gum to stop gambling or quarrels with spouses.
An old fisherman claims fish act as weather prophets foretelling storms and frost. He notes that when a storm nears the fish stop biting and remain quiet, signaling rough conditions ahead.
In a Wold To-Day column the speaker critiques overpraise of ancestors and grandfathers. The piece notes satire of grandparent virtue, cautioning that past honesty is not a guarantee of present virtue and urging self honesty rather than monuments.
A Yorkshireman wins honors after recounting a voyage talk in England about rapid construction. An American passenger boasted of a 22 story building begun and completed within one month, a feat he cited near the train two stations back as proof of swift development across the water.
A traveler recalls how marine life detects approaching cold weather while a Yorkshireman dismisses such tales, joking that animals at home alert for rent due as the day changes. The remark underscores regional humor in London slang.
John Philip Sousa recalls a painful encounter with a bore who read the Wagner score aloud from a book on his knee. He confessed his patience broke when the man hummed every passage, prompting Sousa to remind him he hadn’t paid to hear his own singing.
The piece notes strict anti smoking rules from a 1629 English school requiring a grave man of sound faith and temperance, and cites extreme penalties in Turkey and Russia where smoking carried severe punishments including nose injuries.
A lively exchange questions what counts as phonetic spelling. The dialogue centers on spelling by ear and asks whose ear guides the method. The exchange highlights differing views on language and transcription practices.
The Winthrop house in Winthrop Massachusetts stands among the six oldest houses in New England. The Winthrop association aims to purchase and preserve this landmark that remains largely unchanged since its construction. Notable past occupants include Gov James Bowdoin and Lady Temple, with Mercy Winthrop’s 1700 wedding noted in Judge Sewall’s diary.
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