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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1910
Page
7
A desperate boarder vows harsh reproof after a skim breakfast. He orders ham and eggs and coffee from a restaurant, eats, and the landlady quietly repeats the same meal next day prompting a call to the restaurant for a second serving.
A reflective verse fragment contemplates whether actions done for others justify the unrest within a speaker who seeks lasting fame. It questions the value of deeds performed for public praise and the emptiness of pursuing status beyond moral purpose.
A Philadelphia Times item describes a swell young amateur golfer who arrives with stagish clothes and a companion. A stern caddie watches as they start with a top player as attendant and asks if they can finish before dusk. The caddie bluntly answers that if they run, they may.
The famed explorer Paul Du Chaillu at a New York reception is teased by a hostess about a book titled What One Woman Thinks. He replies in mock zeal that he must obtain a copy, declaring he has long sought to know what women think and would die content if he ever learns.
A visit to a aunt’s rent collecting rounds in a poor district ends with a little girl hearing repeated refusals for money. Stung by the excuses, she decides to go home, saying her aunt’s absence would upset her mother.
Playwright Eugene Walter recalls a visitor in his New York apartment who offered to pay a dollar for a breezy skit with a deep undercurrent. Walter countered with ten dollars, only to hear the man say he could borrow that amount.
A Paris court heard a tale of a penniless client helped by a young advocate who used a police receipt to prove honesty. The receipt mismatch revealed the trick as the judge noted the receipt showed one franc, not five, and the jury acquitted the supposed honest knave.
The lady of the house admires her reflection and tells the maid she would trade looks for youth. The maid replies she would trade youth for the lady’s looks, both speaking in a playful, aging banter.
An effeminate admirer nervously acts as a super to get nearer Forrest and faints after his best scene. Forrest rewards him with a dollar in the dressing room while later supers repeatedly faint at key moments. In New York Judge Brady hears O Rafferty defend striking Murphy after a civil question about family ties leads to a rude, surprised retort and a punch.
A confrontation unfolds as the Huge ewest asks a man named Mr. Binkler about a familiar face and a double, while a Cleveland Mlali Dealer discusses past prejudice. The exchange hints at shared history from a church where he spent two years.
A veteran recalls a Civil War staff feud between Colonel Jim and his aide Louis Richmond. Accusations of theft, shifting loyalties, and political maneuvering disrupt unit cohesion as Richmond fights to clear his name while the colonel faces dismissal after a failed trust in the field.
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