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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1907
Page
3
Thackeray was generous yet poor at death as Leech urged a holiday. The condor’s strength matches its voracity, using claws and beak to tear prey. Conversational quips touch on money, wear, and social pretensions in a collage of brief vignettes.
A humorous narrator travels to Farmer Johnson and others to witness weddings of Mary Johnson and Joe Holmes, Sarah Kent and Jim Ward, and Will Bones and Sarah Jones. He composes light verse about each couple while locals offer elder wine and wedding cake, predicting Honest Abe as the next president.
In a rural justice's court a defendant Ina case was sentenced to thirty days in jail. He addressed the judge as old boy asking if he is being sent to jail. The judge replied That’s what. The defendant added God helps you when I get out. Also includes local humor lines about hard luck and slang mispronunciations.
Day Allen Willey reports from Old Providence, a remote Caribbean isle tied to Morgan era legends. The island hosts a violent, lawless population of about 1,000 with rampant murder, robbery, and fetich practices, guarded by a lone priest’s charity amid ruined fortifications and lingering Spanish gun emplacements.
The article discusses sleep as a mystery, linking it to brain blood supply and fatigue poisons. It explains how reduced brain circulation accompanies sleep and how aging affects sleep through arterial tone and gravity. It suggests toning blood vessels with beverages like beef tea or weak coffee as a remedy.
A compact recount contrasts Hannibal's victory at Cannae with a myth of him sending three bushels of gold rings to Carthage. It notes a Roman siege of Syracuse four years later and questions enduring legends about ancient wealth and reports from battlefields.
In a seaport setting, a cockfight tale features American sailors who transform an eagle into a gamecock. The eagle battles local birds, then, in a final dramatic moment, bites the opponent’s neck as the crowd cheers, illustrating Whistler’s vivid narrative style.
The Philadelphia Bulletin notes city woes from London fog to Tokyo earthquakes and Marseille mistral winds. It cites Marseilles deaths rising 50 percent, Calcutta cholera, Bombay bubonic plague, Baghdad’s Bagdad bonnet infection, Madrid’s hot solano wind with dust and heat.
A compact survey traces chemistry from alchemy to modern science in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries while noting the faulty pursuit of alchemical goals. It recalls a London cabby joke and a raven navigation test from old chronicles, and ends with a garbled anecdote about a cook and a conversation.
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