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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
6
A Chicago Tribune reprint explains the ten recognized forms of U S currency, noting many are not legal tender. It details limits on coin and note tender, differences among gold, silver, greenbacks, treasury notes, and national bank notes, and how payment obligations may be settled under law.
A quip from the Washington Star about disciplining a son with a woodshed dressing down, which the son compares to memories from college fraternity initiation rather than fear or anger. The exchange highlights humor in generational discipline using vivid regional dialect.
The Washington Star quotes a traveler who praises courtesy in South America and notes that in some republics even the humblest citizen may suddenly become president. The exchange with Miss Cayenne highlights caution and irony about political power abroad.
A London Telegraph quip compares marriage to a tram car with the joke that some couples rush to enter while others hurry to exit highlighting the social wit of the era.
The piece threads witty lines from Chicago News and Farrar about foresight and virtue. It juxtaposes a playful exchange between a parent and child with a proverb on circumstance.
A New York Tribune account describes the Japanese composing room with dual Kana and ideograph scripts. It explains the scholar like skill needed to read 4000 to 5000 ideographs and the chaotic work flow with boys collecting characters, the compositor using goggles, and proofs sung aloud in a dirgelike chant.
The article explains tipping norms for stewards on Atlantic liners. It advises about amounts for table stewards three dollars, bedroom stewards two dollars, boot polishers one dollar, and bath stewards two dollars. It notes pourboire for car operators on lifts and suggests reserving a deck chair and morning tub time when booking passage.
An old skipper at the waterfront explains the shark fin on a windjammer’s jibboom as a long held seafaring mascot. He says it wards off collisions, brings speed, and keeps the vessel safe even as the ship strains through heavy seas.
A Tennessee resident asks Governor Robert L. Taylor to pardon her husband, who has served two years in the penitentiary for stealing a hog. She argues he is no longer useful and suggests the pardon would relieve their meat scarcity.
Ancient Mexico court custom required nobles to appear meanly clad in aloe leaf garments when seeking audience with Montezuma. Commoners produced these grosera mantas, while royal blood exempted certain individuals from the humiliation. The wearer entered barefoot and with downcast eyes, signaling subservience.
A Springfield couple killed their aging cat with chloroform and buried it in the garden under a rosebush. The next morning the cat scratched at the door, returning with the rose bush in its mouth.
In Dorset a cluster of villages including Puddle Hinton Puddle Town Tulpuddle Affpuddle Turners Puddle and Bryans Puddle derive their names from the local stream. Residents asked to change names for euphonious options but the postmaster general declined, insisting they remain Puddle.
Dr Hale and Bishop Huntington, once friends, explored church customs. Huntington, a former Unitarian now Episcopalian, started signing letters with saint names, then Hale answered with a line reading Wash day after his signature.
A Brooklyn resident recalls an awkward morning on a crowded bridge trolley. A man harshly denounces a rival's political and business methods, only to learn he has been abusing the very person beside him.
The Sun comprises concentric shells around a fiery nucleus unseen by observers. The outer envelope, about 5,000 miles thick, is the chromosphere a gaseous flood masking the true solar interior heavier than any furnace.
A short quip shows Orlando chastised for encircling Gloriana at a gathering. The reply notes the arm lingered unseen for half an hour until Gloriana objects. The exchange captures a humorous clash over social boundaries.
A wry Atchison Globe quip notes that after a week of illness the husband recovers less than his wife who bore the care, her condition worse than his.
Illustrated guide listing 46 wild animals in natural colors with a fur calendar and gun and trap catalog. Prices of hides and furs shown. Offered postpaid for 10 cents in stamps or silver. Free to those who ship to or buy from us. Fur Dept. N. W. Hide & Fur Co. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A fragment from the National Magazine presents a verse set praising the king and army while denouncing Congress and independence. It contrasts Loyalist sentiment with abolition of Whig supporters, calling for punishment of rebels and expressing hostile wishes toward General Washington.
London Answers describes the searchlight’s impact on night naval warfare. A 160,000 candle power arc light three quarters of a mile high with mirrors can outshine the moon, revealing ships at long range and demoralizing enemies as glare repeatedly shocks the eye.
In Utica New York a deacon noted for eccentricity and strong character testifies in a land dispute about a nearby tract. When asked its value he hesitates then proclaims he would not take a dollar an acre if his yoke of oxen could haul a sled on glaze ice, illustrating his reluctance to overstate the land’s worth.
The article states flag proportions, stripe width half the flag length, example of a ten foot flag with five inch stripes. It prescribes a navy blue field seven stripes deep, two-fifths across the length, and forty six stars in six rows starting with eight stars. It specifies spacing so one half star width separates adjacent stars. Flags may be made in all sizes but proportions remain.
A Paris bourse aux chats operates in a large back room behind a wineshop. Cats of all sizes leap and meow as buyers, including farriers, glovemakers, and cooks, pick from sleek mats for 214 to 20 cents. The skin is used in stewpans at some eateries said to be more enterprising than scrupulous.
A Cleveland Leader quotation notes the speaker’s social life, joking that being busy prevents friendships but leads to “bully enemies” as a sharp aside about personal impact and urban life.
A brief quip from the Boston Transcript shows Willie-Papa noting a big black bag on the ceiling as Papa ignores the request to step on it. The remark contrasts with a Goldsmith line about rewarding as well as punishing to complete laws.
An advertisement urges readers to remember Foley's Honey and Tar as a cure for coughs and colds and to refuse substitutes, signed Q. W. Frost.
Prof. M. W. Mathews late professor at the National College of Music in London offers piano violin and theory lessons. Send a postal to Washburn Wisconsin and a call will follow.
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