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Newspaper
The Progress
Location
Shreveport, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1894
Page
8
A smoking car tale shows a fat man praising a naive view of wealth in a heated banter over fifteen cent quarts of strawberries. An elderly passenger saves his coins, insisting no gift, while the group tastes fruit as the older man seethes at missed opportunity.
A writer recalls a curious legend from the Mescal national road era. In San Luis Potosi a grand city hall progresses slowly, its front ornate with stone and a payroll of imported stonecutters. One worker, Robinson, condemned to death for murder, is spared execution to continue carving. his progress predicted to finish in about 340 years. The second tale follows a New Year church scene where a soprano, contralto, tenor, and bass perform an exuberant service. A handsome man gazes at a sealskin-clad woman as the organ swells and the crowd holds its breath before a misstep causes a chair to fall with a dull thump in the vestibule.
A compact roundup of wage and payment practices in English restaurants describing the waiter not only handling orders but also being held liable for payment, with checks issued against deposits. The article also notes farmers using strychnine to curb squirrels, tallying massive losses avoided, plus frost-related incidents in Russia and a temperance meeting anecdote.
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