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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1902
Page
7
A collection of anecdotes on social discomfort and quirks. The clumsy man probes into others past misdeeds, asks relentless questions, and presses for full explanations. The piece also notes Darwinian ideas about hogs with solid hooves reappearing through natural variation.
A Paris gentleman buys The Bride of Abydos for 15000 francs and hides the cost from his wife. She later reveals she sold the painting he bought for 3000 francs, making a profit of 1500 francs, leaving him to face the miscalculated price.
A collection of short pieces on manners at university life and classroom behavior. Includes reflections on how polite rudeness may educate, a donkey cart toll trick from Ireland, a boy and old gentleman exchange about a school fire dream, and a joke about why a woman is like time with a twist.
A New York Herald piece notes how a dropped penny on a streetcar captivates passengers. Eyes track the coin, heads turn, and everyone reassesses memory and attention until the cent is recovered or the car empties.
An elderly minister recalls a double wedding of two sisters where two couples wed in one ceremony. Lacking a plural fix for man and wife, he improvised with a solemn blessing: and now I pronounce you, one and all, husband and wife.
A gambler once offered a thousand dollars to one that six would appear ten times in a row with dice. After nine straight sixes, the challenger refused to withdraw and pressed on. the tenth throw failed. A mathematician notes the true odds are 60 466 175 to 1 against such a run, roughly a 600 000 to 1 belief. In a separate tale a parishioner laments a two hundred pound inheritance missing stamps for postage.
The article recounts the 1784 discovery of large scale forgeries by a single fraudster known as Old Patch. He studied engraving and printing, forged notes, and operated through disguises and street-boys to pass them. Traced to his mistress, he ended his life in prison by hanging.
An advertisement from Paris Chemical Co. of Milwaukee Wisconsin touts a harmless remedy for delayed or suppressed menstruation marketed by Dr W C Burke of Los Angeles California at Broad way and Seventh Streets. Trial available.
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