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Newspaper
Wahpeton Times
Location
Wahpeton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1908
Page
8
Notice announces foreclosure of a mortgage under state law. It references a deed of trust and debt secured, with details obscured by garbled OCR. The document notes legal action and public sale, typical of county records.
Fragmented text references North State and a mortar sale with mentions of dates amounts and names. Largely unreadable, containing garbled place names and numbers. No coherent event or clear entities other than vague references to a sale and individuals.
Fragmented OCR item includes mortgage description and a sale notice for twenty yards of ingrain carpet, plus an advertisement for Preventics cold tablets. The readable text mentions mortgagee action and a location in North Dakota, with minimal coherent details and several garbled phrases.
The piece cites Rupert Hughes on music as an outcry and notes Schumann’s silent farewell expressing perfect understanding. It contrasts music with sculpture, painting, poetry, prose, drama, and rhetoric, while praising intimate emotional grasp beyond words. It then recounts Krakatoa in 1883 with its immense blast, dust, waves, and global impact. It ends with a quirk about last lines in theater and superstition of not speaking them before opening night.
An irate traveler resents being billed for attendance at a quaint hotel. He complains the room bells failed to ring properly and he spent hours pulling them. The proprietor confirms the charge but jokes about offering a culture course option.
The bachelor minister, helped to Mrs Porter's biscuits for the third time, eyes Rhoda with wonder. He asks if they often have supper like this, and Rhoda replies in her clear voice that they don't always. Youth's Companion.
A New York Herald excerpt discusses why doctors write prescriptions in Latin instead of English. It argues Latin is precise, unchanging, and universally readable in drugstores worldwide, preventing misreading and accidental poisoning from similar drug names. It cites examples of long lived trees and ancient plants to illustrate longevity and universality of Latin.
A London Mail excerpt recounts a teacher guiding many boys to see that all good comes from one source. He used a house with water taps not connected to the main to illustrate. A boy at the back quips that the water rate wasn’t paid, explaining the failure to get water.
The term laissez faire, noted by the Wall Street Journal, means to let alone and tolerate a policy that does not disturb the existing order. Economists see it as allowing society to adjust in its own time to achieve balance.
A well known horseman notes in natural history that four footed beasts begin forward motion with the left hind leg. The claim is illustrated by a child placed on all fours starting movement with the left leg, hands acting as fore limbs.
A study traces gloves from ancient times as protective gear and symbols of possession, nobility, and chivalry. It notes early mentions in Greek and Roman texts, Christian iconography, feudal practices, and modern survivals such as presenting gloves to mourners and at weddings, with references to St. Ambrose, St. David of Sweden, and Browning.
A passenger jokes with a captain about speed, asking how fast the steamer goes. The captain says twenty knots per hour, then explains they threw them overboard to save time. The guest smiles at the nautical pun, thinking sailors wasted knots.
In a Dundee Advertiser anecdote, the MacTavish family gathers for Sabbath dinner when a carving knife slips. A fragment of poultry leg scatters to the floor, provoking a witty exclamation from Mr MacTavish and a claim by a young clan offshoot that the dog will not get the piece. The scene centers on a humorous domestic mishap during a clan meal.
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