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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
2
A humorous reminiscence recounts a lengthy train journey in a crowded Pullman car. The narrator laments upper berths, crowded aisles, and smoky smokers, detailing awkward sleeping quarters, bumped heads, and the humor of travel discomfort alongside a cast of travelers and the porter.
A garret tale describes a goat beneath the star chamber sleeping soundly while the narrator climbs a stepladder to play Mendelssohn on the trombone. An answering bugle call drifts from a distant trail as preparations to endure a snorer unfold.
A narrator describes a dangerous fall from a stepping-stone that collapsed, plunging into water and triggering fear and comic blame from a ground-floor observer. The vivid scene recalls a Pullman car and upper berths, leaving a lasting aversion to trains when mentioned.
A lighthearted dialogue shows Mr Coolhead and a hopeful admirer in New York society. She lists multiple club commitments while he plans a follow up call, noting her strict schedule and his upcoming workload at the office during the busy season.
Six glasses of water are to be taken during the day for digestion. Following each hot bath, a cold shower bath should be used to lessen cold risk and improve circulation. The routine may seem bothersome at first but becomes habitual and aids in achieving healthy complexion and color.
A city farmer demonstrates rooster muzzles to curb crowing in crowded urban spaces. He explains the muzzle prevents a rooster from opening its beak, detailing use on a tiny run near pea beds and mushroom crops, noting Harrison Weir as the inventor.
A Vienna paper sparks cross Atlantic discussion on disaster readiness. One Bohemian town links two former homes by an iron door to share safety during fires, suggesting every city school connect to adjacent buildings. Others warn against high costs of new doors and favor leaving street doors open during sessions. no fire escapes proposed.
Rev William Carter described a dinner in New York where he spoke of testing his theater ministry at the Belasco theater. An incident shared by an auditor from Peebles recalled a London Melo drama memory. a Scotsman mistook a minister for another parishioner and whispered in fear of church gossip.
A hypnotist describes hypnotism in insects and notes that queen bees can control a hive with a humming sound. He adds that the death's head hawk moth also uses hypnotic sound to lull bees before plundering the hive.
A child asks if it is true that growing up depends on being good or naughty. The mother replies yes, and Marie wonders why the teacher was naughty when she was a girl named Mette tri.
An amused visitor asks about a sound heard in the apartment house. They speculate it is a dentist’s patient in the unit below, then adjust to guess it is the Popleys’ baby teething above.
A whimsical exchange features a speaker lampooning memory and gift horse phrases. The line twists the old saying about not looking a gift horse in the mouth as a baby’s memory becomes a running gag.
A humorous poem recounts a neighborly aunt feeding a hungry child with buttered bread and jelly on her doorstep, family chatter, and playful banter about a visit. Interleaved are assorted brief newspaper notes and quips reflecting lighthearted local color and social observations.
Jack a mongrel terrier born March 1889 in Newton low lies has long defied death, living with Nash A. Plympton in Wellesley Hills since puppyhood. He is praised as faithful, intelligent, good tempered, if quick to resent a stray foot. He once attended a Wellesley College function dressed with ribbons.
Walter J. Willenberg, a determined youth, builds a wireless receiving station atop his house and a portable transmitting unit to carry in his pocket. He trails a wire along roads from his coat and uses a small battery to send messages from a traveling station to a distant location.
A fragment states a person was at home eight miles away in town and told others where he was going, promising to reach home in time for supper.
Edmund Burke laments that civil strife erodes moral conduct and the bonds of charity. He argues prolonged wars threaten national unity and corrupt politics, turning affection into hostility as the nation’s sense of fellow feeling dissolves.
The Arctic life is described as uniquely dependent on dogs for travel across the 600,000 square miles of ice covered territory. Mail teams are the aristocrats of Arctic life and serve the United States government, having evolved from earlier dogs due to increased demand from gold discoveries.
A reader notes a theater in a crowded unfashionable area lacking signage guiding patrons from a distant viator. The box office faced complaints that no direction is painted to show the way, while the nearby Baptist Chapel is cited as the landmark. The clerk suggests chapel-goers need directions, implying theatergoers may not. The anecdote ends with a possible moral.
An 1881-era note describes Howard IV during a Scotland war and a relay horary system in the north to deliver the king's latest news. It mentions the first regular post route between England and Scotland established by Charles I, and cites The New York American.
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