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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1909
Page
6
A collage of light quips and jokes from a historical page includes a colored citizen confession with a baseball mishap, household mischief, social observations, and pithy exchanges. The tone imitates a late era humor column with quick punchlines and satirical sketches.
Ralph Berngren argues in Atlantic that circus performers embody art in motion. He compares artists of painting sculpture and theater to circus trainers and trapeze artists, noting the transient beauty of a flying Mercury and the disciplined apprenticeship behind such courage.
Mc Clure's Magazine notes wild dogs in Africa as feared by natives. They hunt in packs, cause natives to climb trees, and disrupt big game pursuits. The dogs are described as natural mongrels with low bodies, coach-dog hair, bushy tails, and strong paws.
A flat dweller shows a suburban dream but his wife refuses to live in the suburb of a suburb. She argues she will accept a city suburb for him but not a suburb of a suburb, a line that ends the search and testy dispute.
A throat cancer patient consults a London specialist who urges larynx removal. The patient fears danger, but the surgeon insists recovery is certain, revealing the mortality rate nine teen out of twenty and claiming nineteen deaths already.
A collage of quips and vignettes from newspapers and magazines. A boy asks about freedom and wisdom, a postman jokes about a single delivery, a duke muses on labor and loafers, and a playful exchange recalls Solomon and liberty.
Investors push to place farm mortgages while farmers tighten spending and seek fewer loans. Grant Van Sant notes mortgage demand falters in Minnesota and the Dakotas as lenders cut rates from 6 percent to 5 percent. An eastern investor seeks 100000 in loans but the firm can place only 4000, prompting an advertising bid for mortgages.
Guidance on pruning raspberries and blackberries notes the best yields come with proper spacing and nourishment. Farm Journal suggests safe well cleaning using candles and turpentine or kerosene, then tests with a lamp. The rapid hedge trimmer, a New York invention, halves trimming time and increases efficiency through a geared mechanism.
In a Dispatch from an American traveler in Russia General Draper recalls a dining car mix up when a maid mistook a colonel for a porter seeking pillows and towels. The Bayonne recorder Hyman Lazarus dispenses a sharp joke, prompting a tearful reconciliation between a wife and husband in court.
A Century Magazine excerpt by Edgar Beecher Bronson warns that rhinos are dangerous and unpredictable. They charge when engaged, outrun by sheer speed, and resist stopping shots even from heavy bullets. The safest tactic is to stand still and hope the animal passes.
A 27 year old greengrocer was arrested Tuesday for drunkenness and assaulting a policeman aided by Mr Lyons. On Wednesday Mr Lyons died, and the greengrocer was remanded to await the coroner. By Saturday Lyons’ death was due to long standing heart disease, leaving the prisoner aged in spirit as his hair whitened.
A darkly humorous collection of brief vignettes. The Washington Star notes a sinister neighbor tale about borrowing a hatchet and clothesline. The Kansas City Journal contrasts Russia’s princesses with grand duchesses and mocks vaudeville hens.
In the Cleveland Leader quote a columnist notes a husband claiming harmony with his wife despite differences. The remark highlights a public persona of domestic ease and control within an everyday marriage.
A light exchange notes the paradox of marriage as a couple supposedly decomb one while the other says it takes two to make a quarrel. The humor highlights common sayings about unity and discord in wedlock.
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