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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1902
Page
7
Dialog shows a landlady offering reduced rates due to a neighboring president who plays the piano. The applicant argues the feature won’t affect pricing. Landlady then states she must charge full price because the room is for her deaf nephew.
A brief Chicago News exchange shows Hixon and Dixon discussing transparency and memory. Hixon asserts she reveals all that opens while Dixon says he informs about many things that never occurred.
Rushed dialogue shows Paul and Percy debating success as a chase, with Percy joking that success means people run after him only to flee. The snippet highlights a playful back and forth likely from a column or dialogue feature in Detroit-area content.
The practice traces to a Roman custom noted by Dr. Brewer leading to Julia of Pompey and Octavia of Cicero, with later European usage. Critics point to Catherine Parr and other examples showing earlier exceptions. Some attribute it to Scriptural doctrine of unity and Bracton era law, though the overall origin remains obscured.
The seamless garment claimed to be Christ’s cloak is kept at Treves Germany a tunic about five feet long. Legends say it was among relics gifts from Empress Helena found in Jerusalem and later hidden from Normans before its 1196 rediscovery and placement on the high altar.
Harvey Sutherland notes in Ainslee's that brass bands are ancient. He cites Horace inventor deaths in 1804 at eighty, early brass horns, and 1835 first brass band. He contrasts 1783 army bands with modern 42 piece ensembles and their expanded instrument mix including saxophones.
The article notes elaborate historic cups and automaton vessels from Germany. A Berlin museum preserves a 1610 Augsburg stag cup with removable head and clockwork base, epitomizing drunken old world ingenuity. A glass with fighting hares once belonged to Friedrich Wilhelm I, symbolizing two ministers as companions.
Bank of England officials pursued forgers and mistakenly targeted painter George Morland. Believing detectives to be bailiffs, Morland fled from Hackney to London. Mrs Morland shared unfinished works with the visitors, and the directors later compensated Morland with two twenty pound notes.
When a southeast wind blows, Table Mountain wears a cloud as a tablecloth. The thin fleecy line forms above the summit and descends to rest flat on the peak, its edges draping over the sides in a graceful fringe. The sight mirrors a household cloth in name and appearance.
The poet Tennyson once showed eagerness to visit America but declined a generous offer from Barnum. Bar n um proposed a simple platform appearance with a handshake as the attraction of the great show on earth.
Tess and Jess discuss a broken engagement. The couple split so he can save money to marry, a note from the Philadelphia Press explains the reason behind the breakup.
The admiral, linked to the Duke of Wellington, saw his flagship wrecked and perished as he moved to a second ship. Lord Charles informed his father of the disaster, who remarked succinctly that it was the second ship he had lost.
A brief exchange recalls a dispute between two women in a humorous road of work. It highlights social humor of strained employer worker relations as captured in the Ohio State Journal.
The Philadelphia Record notes a family with a father moved to the alcoholic ward and a child’s remark about the initials D. D. being added behind a name. The piece reflects a social issue framing around alcohol use and institutional labeling.
The text explains that mummy was valued as a medicinal ingredient in earlier centuries. By the late eighteenth century its use declined as its medicinal worth faded, while ancient recipes described beating and drying human flesh to create a form sold to apothecaries.
Bologna features two famous towers the Asinelli at 315 feet raised in 1109 and the Garisenda built a year later. The Garisenda’s inclination and measured 153 feet high with 23 foot base walls thinning from 6 feet 6 inches to 4 feet 9 inches. Its purpose is debated as retreat fortification with theories on intentional lean or ground settling. In 1266 a later owner sold it for 220 lire about $44.
A juror in a New York City Supreme Court recounts a prior jury service in South Jersey where a supposed corpse was found washed ashore. He describes a 4,000 year old mummy verdict and later quips about prospective doctors entering an already crowded field.
An English church elder fills in for the absent minister and, after a shaky start, delivers a striking challenge to the congregation. He adapts mid sermon and ends with a bold call for unity and reform.
Modern Medicine comments on an attack of hysteria in a woman, suggesting a surgeon might cut all her hair to apply treatment, a bluff that the article says could rarely fail, though the scenario is presented as a grim jocular thought.
The piece argues most birds are stoic unlike owls and asserts poets should avoid owl references. It claims Shakespeare and Wordsworth truly understood owls while many others libel them.
A jury spent ten hours reaching a verdict, surprising observers who felt the evidence was clear. One ex-juryman noted the panel agreed quickly but a debate arose over the literary merit of the judge's charge.
Bill Nye joked to Dean Hole about Wagner remarking that Wagner's music is beyond comprehension yet conveys a sense of superiority. The piece muses that if fashion and weather stayed constant society would need to think to keep up conversation.
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