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Newspaper
The Hays Free Press
Location
Hays, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1922
Page
8
The Copper Eskimos believe distant peoples offend spirits and bring illness. they fear unseen, incalculable powers. They propitiate animal and human shades, while daily life revolves around singing, dancing, and distinctive clothing suited to seasons and ceremonies.
James Westfall Thompson argues in the North American Review that Shakespeare uses Hamlet to camouflage covert criticism of contemporary figures and events. The essay contends Amy Robsart and Elizabeth figure as clues to the age’s political murders and dynastic shifts, with language and satire exposing powerful personages.
The article describes a medieval practice where bankrupt traders were paraded in the town market. Their balance sheets were read aloud while the crowd jeered, bells signaled the abuse, and the bankrupt were stripped of clothing and bumped on a central stone twelve times by public officers. Schoolboys attended to learn a harsh lesson in commercial ethics.
The article notes Jews may have been here before 134, but 1348 marks their asylum in New Netherlands with a Dutch policy allowing residence trade and living, as long as the poor among them are self supported. By 1916 New York’s Jewish population exceeded 120,000 and only 72 pauper Jews were in Blackwell’s Island alms house.
Henley praises George Berrow's Dialogue as a rare fusion of Defoe strain and Lesage wit with picturesque local texture. The work is cast in racy idiomatic English blending primitive and scholarly tones, spoken by the artist Insors and turfs, captivating readers through its natural seeming spontaneity and claimed experiential authenticity.
A quirky note on generals and their habits cites the Duke of Wellington nicknamed the Iron Duke who preferred a plain bed and found springs uncomfortable. The piece muses on how even famed leaders valued simple comforts over luxury when sleeping.
A note on language diversity lists seven tongues seen in Britain besides English. Welsh is spoken in Wales, Erse in Ireland, Manx on the Isle of Man, Gaelic in Scotland, Prenely in the Channel Islands, and Cornish in Cornwall.
A collage discusses the Northern Lights and their cause, mentions a battle at Hohenlinden, a British poet’s lyric, a cautionary tale about selecting a Boston electric apparatus, Norse explorations in Jugoslav lands, the Coventry anecdote on social bans, and papal robe customs prior to a papal election.
A whimsical note observes crows sailing at about twenty five miles per hour and swallows at ninety. A ghost sits on the edge of a bath at a large country house near Hitchin, possibly the spirit of a plumber who died waiting for his mate, reported by Pussing Show in London.
Mrs K A M Jones requests a pound of rheumatism herbs for her mother's severe rheumatism after failed doctor and patent medicines. Letter notes sister in law Mrs W F Antle of Norwalk claimed it cured her and neighbors. Includes call for free booklet and agents, price $1 postpaid from Rheumatism Herb Company Ocean Park California.
The 1922 directory lists federal leaders including President Warren G. Harding and Vice President Calvin Coolidge, cabinet secretaries, Supreme Court justices, and state officials such as Governor Henry J. Alten, Lieutenant Governor Chad Huffman, and Attorney General Richard J. Hopkins. Also named are district judges, senators, representatives, county officers, and local clerks. The mixed OCR shows numerous misspellings and garbled lines but preserves key office titles and officeholders.
Uncle Eben proclaims helping fellow men is our duty though it requires strong effort and resolve to resist indifference. The call to act urges courage and self sacrifice as essential civic virtue in challenging times.
An advertising manager asserts window displays attract passers-by, describing them as an arm that reaches the eye with a bold message See me Here I am. The quotation appears in a Boston Tran script excerpt.
The text notes that "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" was the pen name used by Benjamin Franklin for almanacs published from 1782 to 1737. These almanacs carried maxims on temperance economy cleanliness perseverance and other virtues and often appended the phrase As Poor Richard says.
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