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Newspaper
Washburn Times
Location
Washburn, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
7
Published every Thursday this all home print weekly in Bayfield offers local news notes and community notices for residents. It highlights neighborhood happenings and advertisements within a Bayfield market setting.
The chameleon exhibits paired nervous centers in each lateral half that act independently. When startled it moves as if two animals, with one half awake while the other may be torpid. It cannot swim and may sleep on one side while awake on the other.
McClure's Magazine notes diet fables linked to foods and effects across ancient and modern cultures. It cites Nero chasing voices via ingalian tongues and bears heart cannibalism as transferred strength, suggesting cannibalism framed in ancestral rites among many peoples.
The article reviews Magyar art music admiringly noting Liszt as a symbol of Hungary’s musical grandeur. It likens Magyar music to the Theiss river, capricious and majestic, flowing through beauty and struggle, illustrating music as a force of battlefield energy and wild dances, yet inherently unregulable.
The telegraph plant of India uses a unique leaf movement to catch sun. Each leaf has three leaflets with a large terminal leaflet that erects by day and droops at night. The two smaller leaflets rotate continually in circles with a jerking motion like a clock's second hand. They rest briefly then resume, ensuring all parts of every leaf receive sunlight.
A brief, chipped exchange shows a friend asking about a family's health and a child named Tommy replying that both parents still suffer from ailments. The fragment hints at rheumatic gout and neuralgia affecting the gamma and papa, with a misinterpretation about who is ill.
The article explains the Toulouse goose as a rural staple and describes a two-year fattening cycle. It details feeding with soaked corn, occasional ammonia use by experts, the fattening stages, liver sizes from about 3 to 5 pounds, and how livers are sold to markets in Toulouse and Nerac. It also outlines chef Watin’s terrine de foie gras preparation and aging.
A St. Louis Globe Democrat account notes Thomas Jefferson at seventy-nine in 1822 facing endless correspondence. He declined political favors, answered many letters himself, and found writing a mill horse life with no reading time, longing for simpler days.
A historical note identifies the earliest known culinary peak printed in Venice in 1475. The brief cites the era’s printing culture and culinary references as evidence of early cookery prominence.
A humorous anecdote recalls a generous colonel who aids an impoverished veteran with a half crown. The old man, missing an arm, reveals decades in Her Majesty's service and a fourteen year sentence for stealing a horse, spoken in a Perth penitentiary accent.
A bystander reports a tense dinner at the Naggsbys with guests criticizing an absent friend and sparring over family ties. The quarrel escalates from 8 pm to 11 30 as accusations and retorts fly about fathers in law and personal grievances.
The Omaha advertises a twenty day personally conducted excursion with $180 return fare including sleeping car meals and hotel stays at Los Angeles and San Francisco. It visits Denver Colorado Springs Manitou Garden of the Gods and Salt Lake City with multiple rail routes and side trips under an experienced manager. Call Omaha ticket agent M Lincoln for details.
An 1890s style catalog promotes English courses for beginners and advanced pupils. It includes topics on vocabulary building and conversation, plus studies in English literature. The advertisement offers a one year subscription at $1.00 and a 10 cent sample copy.
A clergyman jokes about curls and age while a four year old sits with a photographer. The child recalls the photographer’s line and the mother learns the blunt response the girl gave when left alone, exposing a sharp tongue from Nellie.
N N Oscar is named president with W G Irish as vice president and C O Lowder as secretary. Also listed are W H Irish, Charles Peterson, Mrs Wm O Neil, D E Cameron, EF Bryan, and Mrs James A Sheridan as officers or members.
Amorous Irish letter humor and a witty exchange about postponed marriage unfold as a suitor and his beloved Peggy debate delays and worn out possessions in a light Chicago Nex humorous note.
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