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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1929
Page
8
In a letter to the Missouri Historical Society via Cyril Clemens of Webster Groves, Mark Twain jokes about delaying a speech to introduce Gen. Joseph R. Hawley and asks that any banquet foods be shared among public charities across states. He aims to remove regional favoritism and treats the issue with playful wit.
The Sedgemoor battlefield marks the last battle on English soil and it took about 250 years before a memorial known as the stone of memory was raised. Miss E Winter of Chedzoy, aged seventy three, dreamt of a ghostly urging to fund the memorial for the men who died at Sedgemoor. Today a RAF camp sits nearby with modern planes circling above the moor.
A lecture on sea life notes that since the Suez Canal opened, species from the Red Sea and Indian Ocean have moved into the Mediterranean, concentrating along the Syrian coast. A crab crossed the canal in 30 years and spread widely, lobsters declined, and large Indian Ocean crustaceans such as sea chalg and eight inch shrimps have settled there.
The Boston Herald praises Burns for writing in bursts of feeling driven by a musical muse and notes Tam O Shanter was created in a white heat. It calls Beckford's Vathek a world masterpiece written in a single sitting, originally in French.
When the fleet arrived in San Pedro gobs wandered onto the shore leave and argued with longshoremen about athletic prowess. A blunt exchange followed with barbed boasts and taunts describing chest expansion and a sailor pointing to a chest tattoo as a four-masted schooner.
The great fire of London began September 6 1666 and lasted four days burning 436 acres destroying 13200 houses and 90 churches including St Pauls cathedral. London property losses were estimated between 8 and 12 million pounds sterling. The Baltimore fire of February 8 and 9 1904 caused about 60 million dollars in damages.
Excerpt from Sea Lore by Stanley Rogers notes fog as the greatest sea danger. He compares a ship in a gale with one in thick fog where passengers sleep, highlighting fog’s paradoxical menace and past disaster record.
A wrathful woman orders her husband to stay home and file for divorce while a friend condemns his affair with a housemaid. She laments that the couple took her pup, chasing them to the ends of the earth.
A collection of brief historical facts on coin dating elephants in Africa and Asia pest weed arrivals in California early printing for the blind in Spain a death rate survey in 1928 a London inventor camera a sparsely populated Alaskan railway corridor a potential excavation at Gedi and the Carlsbad Caverns extent remain uncertain.
The passage surveys sun safety noting gradual tanning, then surveys diverse facts including ancient tea origins in China, wheat flour consumption, aluminum meter disks, energy to ice phase changes, and a French biologist's serum claim. It also cites explorers Peary and Amundsen with polar temperatures.
A playful catalog of oddities mentions the prime minister’s wife as a primate’s relation, a black prince as Old King Cole’s son, a sculptor making faces, and Blanc Mange as a Swiss peak. It jokes about Robert Bruce, Sir Walter Raleigh, Magna Charta and repeated hangings in light verse style.
A Chicago Daily News compilation notes that hard luck and drinking can ruin a man, prosperity can spoil him, bachelors hesitate yet stay put, and some men succeed only because their wives push them. It adds that experience is the rare purchase that cannot be bought on an easy-payment plan.
A local man hurrying from the subway slipped on a brush left by a street cleaner and fell into a puddle on a rainy day. He sat up with tears in his eyes and noticed a toothpaste advertisement in front of him.
A reflective note about seeking universal human kindness, traveling by land and sea and meeting many people, yet a belief that sunlit spots of compassion are found in abundance.
A quotation asserts sincerity cannot be faked or set aside. It argues that wisdom shows true belief in a person outweighs spoken statements. The speaker claims sincerity expresses itself beyond words, influencing perception more than talk implies.
A historical note describes the buffalo roaming across North America from Texas to the Great Slave region. It mentions habitats in New York and Virginia and its westward range to the Sierra Nevada.
A Nature quote by R L Jones estimates that a million people talking steadily would need an hour and a half to convert their voting energy into heat enough to boil a cup of tea, even if all were politicians.
The Venus de Medici sculpture attributed to Kleomenes was found in Rome in the sixteenth century in thirteen pieces and later restored by Bernini. It was brought to Florence by Cosimo III de Medici in 1680.
Maj J W Powell and a party left Green River Utah on May 24 1869 in boats. They navigated Marble and Grand canyons and emerged from the latter on August 29. Powell later became director of the US Geological Survey.
Range of White Pine known as yellow pine and Quebec pine grows across eastern Canada, most abundant in northern Ontario and Quebec.
The article extols decorative tin containers for fruit cake chocolates and candies at Christmas. Boxes keep contents fresh and are reused as kitchen storage or small novelty boxes, with grocers noting the appealing red packaging and high disposal value of the containers.
The recipe describes cooking apples until tender and color even, then preparing Parsley Lima Beans with butter lemon juice and parsley. It includes a method for Apricot Batter Cake with shortening sugar egg milk flour baking powder and apricots baked and served with a warm apricot sauce.
A terse, moral tone essay notes that fault finding and charity clash, vanity is evident after restraint ends, and marriage can complicate happiness. It argues wealth drives ambition, and only a few truly succeed in making money faster than a family can spend.
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