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Newspaper
The Weekly Chieftain
Location
Vinita, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1908
Page
7
A humorous tale recounts a woman’s moral impulse after a shabby beggar asks for stale bread. She follows the man, offers her last dime, only to learn he is not hungry and has chickens to feed, revealing a comic misreading of generosity.
Readable text lists diverse South American wildlife seen north of the pampas. Mentions capybara, coypu rat, jaguar, puma, giant anteater, armadillos, jacana, jabiru, and other creatures described in period-voice prose with misspellings and quirks.
At a recent reception, Vice-President Fairbanka lamented the need for stronger enforcement of existing laws, comparing the lax approach to Benedictine monastery discipline and noting a Spaniard’s smoking incident at a monastery refectory. He recalled a monk's quip about a law against smoking by a monk dog.
A famous planter with a trotting horse visits a country tavern drinks beer, and sits at a piano to sing. An indignant bartender interrupts as the pianist pours thin melodies, jealous of the distraction, ending in a blunt remark about the beer.
Devotees recount a golf club smoking room scene with pipes and decanters as Western visitor Spargo supposedly makes hole eleven in one. A choleric member mocks missteps, while others joke about stones for bad words and odd penalties for holes one to four.
A husband confronts his wife over spending on an elaborate dinner while money is tight. He notes she claimed illness in the family to avoid expenses, yet she hosts a party with a guest doctor, Dr Pills, as the principal invitee, challenging their finances and social position.
A would be Black Hand bomb plot in Pittsburg, Pa was foiled by a hotel proprietor’s bulldog. A suspicious man was seen placing a parcel into a window grate, where the dog clamped his leg and held on. The parcel contained a timed bomb powerful enough to wreck the hotel with about 150 people inside. the man was arrested.
Reports describe Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada boundary area rapidly receding floods the shore. Observers note waters dropped feet in weeks, with experts debating volcanic or subterranean forces as a possible cause. Washoe Indians recount legends of waters hurled from the lake by underground power.
Reports from South Dock in Swaneea Swansea South Wales describe a strange catch by the Swann trawler Ade hide. The creature, yellowish with a dark mark, measured about three feet long with unclear diameter and no fins. Old hands note it is a rarity far beyond their experience, linked to a Moroccan coast trade.
A faded excerpt shows Mea 1 L Wet promoting the Society for the Prevention of Notes in the United States. The effort aims to organize children's education with teacher help, addressing another burden on teachers amid the ongoing work.
The Kansas City Stock Yards report June 20 1905 shows quarantine division sales with top 1330 pound steers at 7 10 and grass steers 75 to 1100 pounds at 4 50 to 5 05. Cows 29 to 125 calves 20 to 50 and hogs mixed. Packers in market. economy tight after flood, prices drifting lower.
Sheriff Hidenhour shipped seven hundred bottles of whiskey and nineteen barrels of beer captured from bootleggers at Guthrie on Saturday. The bulk of this was captured since statehood and was destroyed before the dispensary could dispose of it. Nearly one hundred arrests have been made on the charge of whitey veiling.
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