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Newspaper
Vindicator And Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1908
Page
8
Edwin A. Nye urges young men to avoid gambling and play clean sport for love of the game. He warns gambling corrupts integrity, harms business judgment, and leads to bad company and moral decline, stressing personal responsibility and honor.
The article profiles Charles Baudelaire noting his green hair bid to strangle his father-in-law and excesses in opium tobacco and wine. It cites his love of putrid scents and diseased odors while praising his French verse as musical. It also mentions his superstition counting gas jets cabs and doors and a cab incident ending on the number seventeen.
A fashionable young woman drove to a private lunatic asylum near Paris and convinced the proprietor to admit her husband on a feigned mania. She then visited a Paris jeweler, bought jewels worth thousands of francs, and tricked a shopman into aiding the theft. The pair fled with the jewels, leaving the husband confined for days before it became evident they had both been sold and the woman vanished.
The Romans prized archery though not used in warfare. emperors like Domitian and Commodus boasted unmatched precision. Domitian reportedly shot arrows between boys in a circus, while Commodus claimed to never miss and killed beasts or condemned criminals with a single arrow.
A London sketch contrasts a married man who never pays bills due to missing receipts with a bachelor who is robbed frequently and preyed upon by footpads. A quip about Moses and the tabernacle closes the fragment, noting Exodus chapter thirty three verse seven.
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