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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1907
Page
3
In Dickens chapter 4 a character uses the phrase nothing doing to illustrate a habit. A second vignette shows a hungry loafer in a restaurant prompting a policeman, with the proprietor joking that no stomach pump was needed.
Tennant chases Muriel Arden across Lake Glenora in a storm to reach her aboard Cutler’s motor boat. He finds her clinging to the craft as a perilous night voyage ends with a dramatic rescue and a new attachment formed between Tennant and Muriel. Cutler’s role in lending the boat compounds the tension between rivals and lovers in this coastal melodrama.
A deaf, elderly guest in a family meal fails to hear the grace recited by the host. Repeated efforts to speak louder end in embarrassment and laughter. The guest finally asks for clarity as a crude mishearing leads to a blunt, humorous outburst from the host.
A refined Boston woman is approached by a loud, pudgy stranger who claims long acquaintance through a hired helper who once worked at the woman’s home. The encounter ends with the caller noting the nearing pregnancy and criticizing the other’s politeness, while the reserved woman remains distant.
Mary McKeeon narrates a Washington visit where Rhoda Jaszasson and a Westward bound suitor meet by chance on a monument tour. They form a tender bond amid loneliness and social constraints, planning future letters and a possible reunion in South Carolina. He reveals a wish to join her, offering a four leaf clover as the train departs.
A sale of Charles James Fox furniture included a volume of Gibbon's Roman history presented by the author to Fox. An anecdote from the book noted that salvation for the country depended on laying heads of ministers, prompting avid bidders. The copy sold for 3 guineas, a high price for the era.
In an old Australian mining camp with no women or children, rugged men fight for yellow gold. A traveling troupe visits and plans a grand saloon concert, but a wandering baby steals the show crying loudly, drawing the crowd’s interest away from the musicians.
A historical survey contrasts French bond lotteries and the Italian lotto, detailing Parisian drawings with public officials, bearer bonds, and a child wheel for numbers, against Italy’s weekly lotto five-number draws with high-stakes prizes and astronomical combination odds. It notes superstition guiding bets and a Genoa accident inspiring specific number bets, plus mentions Prussian and Austrian lotteries and their limited integrity.
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