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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1912
Page
3
In Lesaing's Fables a horse boasts of beauty and seeks improvement. Zeus grants a transforming word, creating an ugly camel with taller legs and a longer neck and a built in saddle. The horse trembles, warned never to meet the camel without fear, as life reshapes onlookers.
Mrs Jones answers that she will not stay up for him as he won’t be home for dinner. He explains he will stay late at the club for a game and may return with money for a hat. She warns him to stay moderately sober and not wake her when he comes home.
Luther Burbank argues in The Christian Herald that thornless blackberries once useless became productive and tasty through man's labor. He notes earlier thorny, seedless apples and stonesless prunes now exist on his farms, illustrating progress from natural ideas to useful crops.
A London guest invited to a country snipe shoot shares a day of sport at an English estate. A solitary snipe rises and is killed by the visitor, leaving the host disappointed as the bird had carried a strong report for six weeks.
Public clocks across the German Empire will be synchronized by wireless telegraphy. A master clock at a new Fulda station will trigger a radio transmitter every minute, with a 300 foot tower. A London clock census showed a 21 minute variation from slow to fast, underscoring the need for standard Greenwich time.
A collage of satirical observations and brief notices on fashion, science, politics, and society. It riffs on summer trends, royal and American medicine, electricity, marriage norms, aviation stunts, and journalism, mixed with quips about copper prices, recalls, and public figures. Strong topics include Yale, Carnegie, King George, Orozco, and vaudeville.
A historical commentary contrasts Japanese commercial honor with Western standards. It traces social hierarchies that shaped commerce, notes the Mitsui family's rise under imperial policy, and compares them with the Rothschilds, arguing evolving attitudes improve trust in business across Japan.
A correspondent notes a church scene where an assistant sleeps through a sermon yet tells the rector it was his finest sermon. The writer finds it shocking yet suggests the assistant would be complimenting the sermon by remaining calm and listening.
A humorous line from the Louisville Courier Journal has a streetwise housewife negotiating with a star gazer. The conjurer promises a love philter, while the wife pivots to demand salary-boosting returns and a share of all gums realized.
A conversation fragment notes an inquiring friend asking about a husband’s stance on woman suffrage. Mrs Leeder remarks he is skeptical, with a light jab about him being a kicker, suggesting uncertainty about his position.
Mrs Pliment says she sought an absolute divorce and was told by a lawyer that he was an old friend of her husband and would take the case as a favor. The remark is presented as part of a broader discussion on the cause of freedom.
George Harding in Harper's Magazine recounts two Newfoundland fishermen who salvage a derelict American schooner abandoned in the Belle Isle strait. They cling to the hull through a brutal winter, subsisting on one barrel of flour and frozen herring, and finally bring the ship to port as ice breaks.
In Delmontco's after theater chatter George M. Cohan recalls a tale of an aging actor who, after eight months of unemployment, learns a new act the "turkey trot" with an ostrich. The agent promises fame but the timing is cruel the old performer laments he had to eat his partner.
The piece notes Sir Charles Eliiot, Hong Kong University’s new principal, speaks 23 languages, possibly a current record. It recalls Elihu Burritt, the Learned Blacksmith born in 1810, who taught himself many languages and read 60 in total, as cited from the London Chronicle.
The Metropolitan Police board in Tokyo reports 16,000,000 rats sacrificed to curb plague since December 1902. Officials recently held a religious service to console the spirits of the dead rodents, noting the year is ne no to shi or the year of the rat and paying them respect.
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