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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
6
Elizabeth Atwood and Roger Blake dream of a shared Wyoming home. Five years pass before the farm is ready. Elizabeth arrives to find Roger with another Elizabeth. The misidentification leads to heartbreak until the true Elizabeth confesses past sorrows and both find a loyal, deep love in the end.
A discussion on whistling as a sign of coolness and indifference, noting its social cost. It cites Boswell and Johnson in a tale where a man whistles to avoid servility, described by Pall Mall Gazette.
The Chicago Tribune recounts a skit where Tambo and Mistah Walkah compare a waif to an apartment house. An interlocutor jokes about the difference, while Professor Howlan High Benah is introduced to perform a topical song about a doglike beloved.
An American officer recalls a boastful Englishman who derided British youth at shooting. The American is handed a rifle, misses once, then hits the bullseye six times in a row. The Brit concedes, praising the Yankee as a premier marksman with an English gun.
The 1880 marriage of John Burns led him to work as a Battersea journeyman engineer. He later claimed to build Britain’s first electric tram car and used his wife and mother in law as decoys to boost public belief in electric traction at the Crystal Palace, running the tram for six months despite initial fear.
In a humorous exchange from Puck, Mrs. Drippingold demands towering Norman Gothic spires for her new country house. The architect seeks specifics as she insists on visible, ancestral towers to impress passersby.
New Boy asks why another lad left for, noting the other’s apparent eyesight. Master cites periods of blindness when taking money from customers. Mrs Benham asks about quitting drinking. Benham recalls a past night with her mother and a turning point.
Quote from Uncle Eben on how a baby learns to talk and how the rest of life is spent keeping talking in check. Washington Star note emphasizes patience and humor about speech development.
A compact reflection quotes Diogenes on dangerous beasts and notes that slander is the wild bite while flattery is the tame bite. The saying warns that those seeking confidants may be cannibals of their own hearts, per Bacon.
The Chicago Record-Herald notes astronomers doubt an infinite star count arguing a truly vast yet finite number avoids a uniform night sky. It cites light loss and gravitation as possible limits, acknowledging the idea rests on assumptions that may not be provable.
In a witness box a woman attempts to explain her vague ties to the defendant. She lists a tangle of marriage connections and cousins through multiple sides of both families, concluding she has always viewed him as a cousin, while the lawyer accepts the explanation as satisfactory.
An eminent painter quips that Europe has artistic atmosphere but Paris is overrated as a place to study. He recalls a rich man's son in Paris after three years writing to his father asking whether he came to Paris to study painting architecture or music.
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