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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1902
Page
7
In Alaska the grandest hunt grounds of North America house giant moose, Kodiak brown bear, rain caribou, snow white moon sheep, mountain goat, yellow bears and the rare Dew glacier bear, all described amid a note on recreation and wildlife.
A Cork lecturer began with a solemn remark about whether attendees have children or daughters and asserted that no man or child over fifty has fully grasped the enduring truths being discussed. The fragment hints at a rhetorical address delivered to a mature audience.
A youth seeks his sweetheart at a rural institution. The keeper, irritated by the intrusion, refuses to answer and slams the door, asserting a sharpened moral line about what the residence has or has not.
A barber comments on aging as a patron settles into the chair and the next victim settles in the seat. The exchange reveals lingering tension and a sharp retort from a New York figure.
In a St. Louis residence a fiancee played Chopin while her mother and the future son-in-law chatted. The mother asked about Edna's musical ear and the young man quipped that stretching a few strings would make a lovely guitar, but he never finished.
A student asked Oberlin College president to shorten his course. The president replied that length depends on ambition, saying God makes an oak in a hundred years but a squash in six months.
A comedian with a rose tinted beard asked about a ship 100 feet long 40 feet wide masts 100 feet high and a bowlegged bo'sun. The crowd shouted the punchline the capstan weighs the anchor provoking a near revolt as they grabbed benches to restrain themselves.
The horseshoe common in the orient is a full bottom plate with a central perforation. Average weight is three fourths of a pound. Native smiths typically cut these plates from wrought iron sheets and rudely shape them for their use.
A young naval officer recalls sailors' beliefs about sea omens and afterlife. Old salts claim dead sailors become Cape Horn pigeons, mews, or albatrosses mark captains who perished. A boatswain’s mate recounts a drowned seaman’s wail as the ship’s ghost.
The passage notes how Sarti composed in darkness, Bossuet in a cold room with warmth at his head, and Schiller cooled by water before composing. Gretty used meals and coffee to spur work, Guido Reni dressed grandly for painting, and Mezeray wrote by candlelight. Bentham collected ideas on small squares, forms of manuscripts. Masters shifted between chisel and pen, enriching enduring works.
The article discusses historic perfume use and culinary scentings. It mentions cinnamon ginger and rosewater syrups for cherry tarts and notes how chests and chambers had drafts needing cleaning. It also references sweet waters sprinkled under rushes and on bedding in great houses during revels.
A London paper recounts Wagner seeking guidance from Rossini in Paris and showing a piano piece upside down. Rossini remarks that it sounded better that way, while Bill Nye praises Wagner’s music as sounding better than it seems.
Mrs Youngwed reveals her husband stayed home due to illness and undertook tasks around the house including carpet removal and back yard work while at home. Mrs Naybor notes visible home improvements. The Philadelphia Press quotes the exchange.
A Washington Star passage captures a friend labeling events as tragedies and Mr. Stormington Barnes contrasting them as financial catastrophes while he halts his expense account.
A reflective piece argues that memories of past hopes can turn to regret. It suggests reevaluating choices and embracing growth rather than dwelling on what might have been.
A coal piece recounts its millions of years as living fern and forest, describing hot prehistoric climates, shifting continents, volcanic events, and layered plant beds that transformed into coal. It frames coal as bottled sunshine, storing sunlit history.
Willie laughs at a teacher and throws banana skin, causing a tumble. His mother questions the joke as onlookers react to the incident reported by the Philadelphia Record.
What thin folks need is a greater power of digesting and assimilating food. Yee King’s New Life Pills tone and regulate the digestive organs, gently expel all poising the system, enrich the blood, satisfy appetite, and build healthy flesh. 25c at all druggists.
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