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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1926
Page
3
Two Arabian visitors on a farm debate divine balance. One argues against creation’s justice using mismatched fruit sizes. An apple drops from a tall tree, striking the critic’s nose, prompting thanks that it was an apple not a watermelon.
The Detroit News notes Madagascar hosts a mix of Bantu Africans Hovag Malays and Arab Fatimite descendants with over fifteen tribes and pygmy elements. Lemurs remain abundant, acclaimed as a unique evolutionary clue.
The origin of grass widow is debated with no solid facts. Some link it to grace widow, others to Anglo Indian custom of sending wives to the hills in India, or to California gold rush practices of boarding families while men dug for gold.
A Rockland girl hosted a policeman from a neighboring town and his handcuffs bound the maid’s young brother. The officer searched every pocket for a key to unlock the cuffs but failed. He carried the boy to another town to fetch the key, wasting much of Sunday evening.
An early London anonymous treatise from 1702 claimed birds escape cold by flying to the moon for winter. It asserted a sixty day nonstop journey powered by stored body fat, and its circulation helped many readers accept the idea despite lack of evidence.
The article explains that radio devices can aid those with partial hearing by magnifying sounds through earphones. It notes that truly deaf individuals cannot be helped, while partially deaf users may benefit as the instrument can be tuned to amplify incoming sounds well beyond normal speaking volume.
A detailed account explains a sacred water trial where two villages compete at a tank named Vhulbant. Participants and seconds wield poles, priests chant to reveal truth, and chickens are offered to demons. The loser is determined by who emerges last from the water.
Henry Parker bets that Tom Taylor regretted taking 34 000 from the farm bank to buy 500 shares of oil stock. Tom’s wife caused no fuss, but Perkins recalls she overheard Tom being scolded at home. The dispute centers on Tom paying 5 a year for a safe deposit box for the oil shares.
The passage from James Agate’s Secrets of Showbiz recounts a butler named Holland, once in Richard Mansfield’s service, who doubts his status yet accepts tickets to Richard II. In a theater interval he marvels at Mansfield’s artistry while recalling a past incident when he disrupted Mansfield’s performance out of concern for his own dignity.
A Western woman called a town ticket agent to route her to a remote Southern town. The agent searched the railroad guide for a path with many changes, then she asked if a Jetter would reach the town in game time, noting she was writing one to that town.
A creature nicknamed Porky climbs treetops as winter deepens, drifting to over a hundred feet above snow. He survives subzero cold without fur by a loose quilled coat, remaining motionless in high branches. How this feat defies death remains a natural mystery.
Walter Rendell Storey in the Antiquarian Magazine notes chairs only gained popularity in Bisland late in the Jacobean period. An inventory at Gilling Castle in 1624 records two chairs and 35 stools, while in 1689 Charles I entertained Cosmo III, the grand duke of Tuscany, with just the guest of honor’s chair.
A vault advertises security and constant access for property owners with real estate, insurance policies, wills, business papers, stocks, mortgages, bonds, and other valuables, offering boxes at a low cost.
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