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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1912
Page
7
A Virginia naturalist spots a seven foot blacksnake for his collection. The creature first remains still then charges, dodges, and climbs into branches high as 15 feet. After a tense pursuit the hunter captures it, though the snake bites in anger. It resists handling for two months, proving unusually intractable.
Lord Haldane, newly made lord chancellor of England, is exceptionally young for the post. At about thirty, Winston Churchill and Col Seely are among the youngest in government, highlighting a trend toward youth in the administration. The piece notes many links between Churchill and Seely and recalls earlier youth records in Parliament.
The Memphis mayor speaking for children's country week associations laments perceived rural ignorance among city kids. He recalls a girl asked what time a country chut up would be, a boy asking where potatoes are kept, and a girl declining a fresh peach saying she only eats them canned.
A Rembrandt titled Woman Plucking a Fowl recently sold in Paris for 95000 dollars, reportedly a record for the artist. The piece has fetched varied sums in earlier sales: 70 dollars in Amsterdam around 1734, 1625 in London 1845, and about 2800 dollars in Paris 1884 before resale to the current owners. The prior record was 370000 dollars for Girl Holding a Medal in the Hoe collection sold locally last year.
Dr. Mary Mills Patrick, president of the American College for Girls in Constantinople, arrives in New York on a short visit to Turkey. The college sustains 260 students from Bulgarians Armenians Greeks Persians Turks Jews Hungarians and Germans living in dormitories funded largely by American money. Major gifts come from Mia Russell Sage Miss Helen Gould and John D Rockefeller supporting Patrick’s work.
A London firm details experiments in paper fabrics for clothing and household items. Paper hats for children cost two to twelve cents, paper shirts 12 cents, and paper handkerchiefs two cents. Paper towels, blinds, serviettes, lace, and table covers are proposed to replace laundering.
A Vienna letter laments fashion writers moving away from black toward white as mourning color. It notes reports of white being cited as mourning, but argues black remains dominant. The piece also discusses sleeve bands and stationery borders signaling mourning and predicts real mourning will appear on pure white paper.
Persevering Japanese Wakao Ippei became Yamanashi’s wealthiest man after late bloom. He read only after sixty, first profited selling crystal balls, then studied Chinese classics with a tutor until age ninety. He is now ninety three.
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