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Newspaper
The Kemmerer Camera
Location
Kemmerer, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1906
Page
4
An arsenic poisoned coon and a tiger converse in a desert setting. The coon explains his plan to die by his own hand, claiming the poison makes him deadly to touch. The tiger, in a lighthearted mood, accepts the strange meeting as luck and listens as the coon requests a precise position to meet his end.
Mr Dodge, sub-master and Greek Latin professor, warned a popular girl translating a Greek passage in class. At the tense moment Mr Holman, the English teacher, opened the door and entered, prompting a hearty laugh once the moment was explained.
An elderly German traveler on a Augsburg to Munich line stopped a train at 9:30 pm to pay half fare for his 10 year old son. He claimed no alarm was needed but faced a $26 fine for delaying service. The incident highlights fare disputes and passenger conduct on long trips.
The San Francisco Chronicle sketches a composite image of the American working woman. It envisions sobriety with a dash of color, a firm chin and hands, an inscrutable smile, and eyes that convey power, purpose, hope, and trust in the future amid human struggles.
The article discusses school gardens across Europe with focus on Sweden Belgium and Helgi. It notes low public school building and garden funding in Sweden and Belgiums reliance on truck farming. It highlights government interest in repurposing school gardens for cultural and industrial communities and links prosperity to agricultural education and broader horticultural knowledge.
Herbert F. Cowles, cashier of Amherst National Bank in Amherst Massachusetts, recalls a schoolmate nicknamed Doc Shumway who mocked his reading during Bible devotions. When Cowles hesitated on a difficult phrase the friend whispered the line and Cowles angrily urged him to put his finger down. Cowles then faced a beating for the incident.
The Hindoo, famed for steady nerves and endurance, rests by the window when exhausted. He breathes deeply, opens his arms, and recites prayers to renew body and mind. Deep breaths and prayer restore his calm, freeing his nerves for renewed concentration.
The Dampier Dispatch, a tiny northwestern Australia paper, reports a regretable incident at a local ball. Mayor Doyle danced with a younger partner as the British anthem played, prompting the paper to warn that blood has been shed for a less glaring offense.
Artist George Romney remains popular posthumously with eight canvases selling for four figures this season. A $20,000 piece was found rolled, creased, and dirtied in a northern England house. Romney is thought to have produced nearly 1,000 portraits, with several previous works appearing in major sale rooms.
In search of handsome women we look to the stage and wonder why they are beautiful. The wives explain that actresses pursue beauty as a key dramatic talent. They do not tempt the footlights without good looks and carriage. They improve beauty by exercise diet athletic effort and a desire to please.
A writer recalls an 19th century Indianapolis scene where locals near a veteran pork packing establishment complain about a smell. The defendant responds in injured tones that any man who dislikes the hog odor must be overly delicate, highlighting a quirky dispute from a bygone era.
In a fragmented reminiscence one Cosmetica Not Wrong figure recalls past links to SH Peter and Mauls parieh in South Benton. He jokes about a lady using cosmetics with a droll line about an old weary weed painting, reflecting period humor from a distant occasion.
A descriptive note from New England Magazine recalls the exterior of Harvard Hall as it appeared in 1720 with red brick walls and narrow doorways while highlighting interior changes after Revolutionary War use. It notes halls like Stoughton 1700 and Massachusetts 1718 and ties growth to President Eliot’s 1869 inauguration.
The article The Grand Canal of China in Technical World Magazine details primitive lock methods. Simple stout boards with ropes guide boats through grooves in stone piers while windlasses on the bank haul vessels slowly. Artificial basins and rudimentary sluices require constant soldier and worker supervision to prevent accidents.
A traveler remarks on English dining customs noting cobnuts similar to hazelnuts served fresh and green. The nuts, from Kent, were enjoyed with brown bread and butter and a crisp lettuce salad with French dressing, highlighting England’s use of local produce even when fruit is scarce.
A fair exhibit shows a machine labeled How to Make Your Trousers Last offering sartorial tips for one cent. A countryman inserts a coin and receives a card printed with the advice to first make your coat and waistcoat, as noted in Harper's Weekly.
The article recalls how Lord Nelson received a coffin made from the mainmast of the L Orient after the Nile. His friend Ben Hallowell sent the gift with the note that Nelson could be buried in his own coffin when ready. Nelson reportedly had the coffin set up in his cabin and later his body lay in it at Whitehall during his public funeral.
Dr Thomas Darling ton Commissioner of Health reports the need to enforce anticaprizing rules after a meeting with medical men. Consumptives in a New York institution allegedly grazed with cows, exhaling onto pasture grass instead of using a spitting engine. Nine of ten cows tested had general tuberculosis.
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