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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1908
Page
8
A bemused colonel feigns readiness for a row as a determined woman aboard challenges fare rules. The scene ends with the colonel revealing the woman is his wife Mary, who defies a plan to squeeze a fare from him and vows no punches for Mary.
In a San Francisco Chronicle snippet Big George complains he was cheated on a windmill at the Fairmont liquor bazaar. A newcomer bets 50 cents as they joke about the windmill’s reliability and the missing breeze on Sundays at his Sonoma county ranch.
A Metropolitan Opera board member recounts a musician’s wife chat during a visit. She notes her husband dislikes Wagner operas and prefers Italian works, joking that he tears shirts at Wagner performances and never returns home without a ripped sleeve.
A Virginia boy, climbing an apple tree to pocket fruit, fell when hauled down by a hired man. The father sues for damages arguing the boy should have been allowed to descend safely. The case questions the hired man's obligation to deter while ensuring a safe exit.
In a wartime exchange, Larry taunts a wounded comrade Denny, asking why he acted frightened during the fiercest shelling. Denny answers in injured tones, recalling the great battle and the heavy bombardment that left him vulnerable and mocked as if he fled to a bare and exposed hideout.
A well preserved fountain in the Temple Ares area of Jerusalem, Bab dilvfles, is described as built about 800 years ago and fed by water piped from Solomon's Pools for centuries, with the inscription still legible.
A social poker game at Mrs. Goitt’s home ends with a dispute over a straight. Mrs. Jones boasts a winning hand as Mr. Jones questions legality of the hand. The men react quietly while chips and emotions rise in a penny ante, five cent limit game.
North China Daily News reports ongoing Chinese justice actions against the family of Hau Hai-lin, a Chinese schoolmaster who fatally harmed a government official months ago. Governor Feng Hau seeks Hau Hai-lin's wife in Japan and asks Tokyo for extradition, but the minister replies notes the political offense and suggests Pekin approach Tokyo instead.
Joseph H. Adams recalls Thomas A. Edison telling a boy that invention is two parts inspiration and ninety eight per cent perspiration. The anecdote is shared in the Introduction to Harpers Electricity Book for Boys and used to motivate persistent work in science and innovation.
In William I’s reign Norman knight Robert d Oyley was granted Hook Norton estate on condition he sent the king a linen tablecloth each St Michael’s feast. Oyley ladies embroidered these fine cloths used at the royal table, termed Oyley Moen, giving the d Oyley name to such fine linen.
A British parliamentary remark notes the house of commons as a practical paradox while praising its peerless stature among legislatures. The quote highlights the tension between practical governance and the ideal of noble legislative craft.
An Irish laborer visits a drug store with sticky lozenges and asks for a chemical analysis. The druggist quotes five dollars, but the man pockets the lozenges and declares he will feed one to his cat, avoiding payment. The tale highlights urban legends about quick tests and unreliable expertise.
A village editor narrates a comic moral tale where a brave youth saves a beautiful girl from drowning at a seaside resort. The grateful father offers his daughter in exchange for the rescue, joking that he cannot yet pay the reward of wealth, so the youth wins both the maid and the gratitude of the family.
A theatre manager in Chicago recalls the late Clara Bloodgood describing her sharp wit and talent. He recounts a tea at the Auditorium where she quipped to a society woman about a trip to Bar Harbor and her daughter’s bathing attire. The anecdote highlights her bold humor.
An old article notes about one boy in fifteen becomes left handed by age ten and blames mothers for not pushing right hand use. It mentions German schools teaching right handedness, and says most tools suit right handed people, while ambidextrous individuals may have advantages in some tasks. It concludes that nature favors the right arm for much work.
The term grain as a weight began with the old English pound defined as the weight of 7,680 grains of wheat from the ear. This yielded 480 grains per ounce, with 16 ounces in the pound, linking modern measures to the Conquest era.
A traveler observes Swedish stilt skating where a girl glides two feet high on ice and an expert balances on five foot stilts. The performance, while difficult, shows daring moves such as outer and four edge and backward grapevines, though falls leave holes in the ice.
A woman accused of murder faced a jury verdict of not guilty. The judge pressed the foreman on how such a decision was reached, and the foreman replied with a sharp retort about their ability to treat a lady.
A New York Weekly item recounts Judge Pitman buying a lamb for his children. Readily playful, the lamb relentlessly butts the judge, wrecking garden features until Mr. Potter clubs the animal and returns it. The judge speculates the lamb is a warborn ram while planning to confront the seller.
In an Edinburgh school thirty years ago three inseparable pupils named Faith Hope and Charity remained close after schooling. They married in quick succession and raised three children each, maintaining a tight bond. Three years ago one died suddenly, another followed shortly after, and the last perished a few months later, leaving their families and friends stunned by the rapid loss.
The surgeon of the steamship Pannonia Cunard line, Dr Fra ser Orr, performed a life saving appendectomy in mid ocean during a great storm. He operated on a coal passer in danger of death and was aided by Dr Hendrik. The act will be chronicled with admiration in medical history.
Two Princeton faculty members on an electric car trip were stopped by a blockade. As they neared their destination they exited to walk but the car quickly overtook them. One quips that getting off would have been better than staying on.
The unveiling ceremony in Leith Scotland coincided with the publication of Victoria's first volume of letters Lord Rosebery addressed the gathering praising her training leadership and commitment as a guiding influence in the nation.
The article surveys ancient and modern views of onions as food and remedy. It notes frowning by ancients who labeled onions acrid and unwholesome, while also recounting claims they promote growth of hair, break tumors, aid paralysia of the tongue, and serve as cataplasms. It adds folk practices with onion juice for deafness and dreams, and mentions cultural superstitions linking onion dreams and winter severity.
Amos Boggs hauls pails from the old well through the orchard to the kitchen while Mrs. Boggs washes for the family and about a dozen customers. An elderly wealthy observer questions the effort as Boggs calmly asserts ten years of routine.
A Washington churchgoer, visiting from here, shared how she sat behind a high executive officer and witnessed him yawning during the sermon. The moment surprised her, proving even revered leaders show universal human frailties.
The German shipping trade shows growth as 780 vessels totaling 398,151 registered tons were built in 1906, up from 646 ships of 310,771 tons in 1905 and 6535 ships of 267,991 tons in 1904. Among 1906 builds were 11 warships totaling 30,831 tons. Additionally, 119 foreign built vessels were added on German orders, totaling 133,546 registered tons.
One hundred thirty-two Paris school boys and 73 girls described toy preferences. Boys chose railway trains 21, tin soldiers 28, steam engines 10, building bricks 9, toy typewriters 8, mechanical horses 8. Forty girls declared dolls superior to all. The notion of a single superior child is distant.
P T Barnum unveils a woolly horse described as a new kink in horses. He notes the wool is not finer but claims the animal can show far and may foreshadow the automobile. He directs his press agent to notify the editor of the New York Herald.
A fragment from East Oregonian recalls judge Sam White and Oregon Democrat Tom Taggart years ago as a band played Dixie, noting a five-dollar bat was thrown through a skylight, seventy five feet above Baker City, in a vivid local memory.
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