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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1911
Page
7
The piece argues merchants should keep a bright storefront and clean streets to attract customers. A smiling storefront and tidy town boost morale and prosperity, urging readers to adopt the habit of smiling all day.
An explanation of wind as the result of heated air rising and cooler air rushing in. It describes weight of air, how motion increases impact, and how earth's rotation steers winds, noting trade winds near the equator and how southern and northern hemispheres shift air flow. St. Nicholas summary.
A Chicago Tribune piece recounts a legend of Fat William Gros Guillaume, a 17th century clown whose wife was dying while he performed. To dispel sorrow, a fellow actor struck him, tears mingling with white makeup and provoking unexpected audience laughter, giving rise to the black lines on the clown's face.
The Westminster Gazette recalls Dickens describing a reporter’s hard calling. He copied key election speeches by shorthand on his palm under a dark lantern in a postchaise at fifteen miles per hour. He once captured Lord Russell’s speech amid a mid castle yard fray at Exeter.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip recalls a dry goods merchant asking to place an ad in two paper parts to attract women. The advertising manager quips that when pure reading matter is needed for women to read, they place it beside a dry goods ad.
A joke about oxides features Thomas naming leather as an oxide of beef in a junior chemistry class. In another item, a playful exchange has a man proposing and a woman joking she would marry a bear, highlighting lighthearted captions from the Houston Post and Chicago News.
A historical account of Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair and its replicas. It notes the New York Metropolitan Museum original, its 250000 francs purchase by Vanderbilt, and the artist’s multiple copies and engravings. The piece highlights American reception and Bonheur’s popularity in the United States.
An elderly passenger asks the taxi driver if he has hit telegraph poles. The driver replies that he has bumped into poles two or three times, but the machine stops and he keeps going. The exchange captures a dry humorous moment from a Chicago Tribune item.
Yarmer Corntessel recalls a curious yesterday when a stranger approached and told a funny story without attempting to sell anything. The Washington Star quotes a reflection on obedience and the heart’s true contentment from Sauda.
A New York Post feature extols Swiss laundry methods as original and practical. It describes villages using troughs for all washing, rain as the main wash day, and women simplifying chores while socializing under umbrellas as weather cleanses and final whitening occurs on grass under sun.
A linen counter salesman sketched a caricature of A. T. Stewart. Stewart praised the work and, after a tense moment, offered to help the artist pursue art. John R. Rogers left the counter to become a sculptor with Stewart funding his studies.
A well known German, walking into a Cincinnati public office, caused laughter over his new or recently repaired shoes. A clerk noted the shoes, and the German quipped that they nearly sold themselves, saying he had them half sold. A deep groan followed as he left.
In a London Punch style quip a vicar's wife laments social tensions as a Blacksmith named Priggs complains he is ushered out of the public house whenever he seeks steady work. The sketch reflects class and labor frictions in a humorous tone.
A Cleveland Leader theater note reports a buyer asking for the two seats with a post between them. The box office replies that the married couple pairs are all sold, leaving the buyer to seek alternatives.
A brief quotation invites speaking plainly about the present as if absent and speaking of the absent as if present, offering a guideline on candid charity attributed to Lippincott.
A Browning's Magazine summary explains tadpole growth to frog in six to eight weeks, with cold dark water delaying metamorphosis for years. It describes a tadpole's tiny mouth, three rows of teeth, gill hood, and fishlike respiration, then tail absorption and beak replacement as the frog matures. It notes forty frog species, edible frog rarity in America, and peculiar croaking behavior and odor when squashed.
The tale recounts Turner's pride and price shifts over his painting The Building of Carthage. Sir Robert Peel offers rising bids, Turner jokes of selling then keeps the work, and after years it ends in Turner's cellar, later passing to the nation upon his death.
The brother of Mme de Pompadour was made Marquis du Vandieres, an ill suited label he disliked as enemies dubbed him Marquis d Avanteler. The matter reached the king and, after due forms, he became the Marquis de Marigny.
A Russian diplomat recounts Count Tolstoy’s disdain for physicians at a vegetarian dinner in Washington. He claimed Tolstoy ridiculed three doctors at Yaspaya Polyana, quipping that physicians are either radicals who kill you or conservatives who let you die.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quip depicts Melia asking about her young man’s earnings. He plans to double it and jokes he’ll earn roughly half of the future amount. The banter plays on rising wages with playful dialect and local color.
A friend asks if you will attend cooking school and do your own work. The judge notes the aim is to teach a husband to prepare meals in an emergency. The remark frames preparedness and shared domestic responsibility as prudent strategy.
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