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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1908
Page
8
A humorous anecdote about Glen MacDonough reworking lines for a chorus girl in a farce. The actress asks for a line in act two and MacDonough replies with a candid gag about a banquet scene. He reveals the line is not a speech but a confession.
A compact mix of verse on two wise men advising a youth to seek light or recall past folly. It blends a moral about mind over body with a shop scene where Mrs. Bean confronts a stain remover incident. The piece echoes parable style and a domestic interaction from Youth's Companion.
A historical anecdote recalls Dr Temple, archbishop of Canterbury, testing a curate by asking him to read verses aloud for license. After a lightly amused exchange about a lady's praise the bishop quips that engagement changes belief, and marriage confirms truthfulness in a humorous ending.
A fragment of a romantic letter from 1797 expresses growing love after separation. The writer pleads for Josephine to show faults and avoid tears, seeks her presence to restore health, and hopes they may claim happiness together before death. He vows constant thoughts of her and a wish to share life’s end together.
Pat McGuire faced a third drunkenness charge before his commanding officer. The officer sentenced eight days confinement, but a pen mishap led Pat to whisper a quip, prompting laughter that saved him from punishment.
A Keosauqua anecdote contrasts Judge Knapp and Judge Wright in appearance and temperament. Knapp, portly and bluff, relished a story of Senator Wright visiting his house and practicing an inci dent that he claimed occurred during the visit.
A judge hosts a visiting senator who accidentally wears the judge’s coat. The senator discovers the mix up and jokes that he has fought an urge to shake hands with every fool he sees, while the judge blushes at the breach of propriety. A hardware shop tale follows about misread intentions and a minor domestic dispute. The column closes with a wry exchange between Aristippus and Diogenes about flattery and living simply.
A French translated edition of Fenimore Cooper’s Spy is valued for a mistaken line. The translator misreads a locust tree as an insect, inserting an asterisk and footnote about giant locusts used as hitching posts, per the New York Press.
General N B Forrest, famed in the Civil War, treated a captured Union chaplain with unexpected courtesy. At supper he invited the chaplain to bless the meal, escorted him through Confederate lines, and said he would keep the preacher if not needed more by sinners on the other side.
Voltaire asserted that no person has honored Isaac Newton more than he did and claimed that if an assembly of all talented men through history were convened they would unanimously place Newton in the leading position.
A man at a Kansas country fair asks a keeper to let him enter the elk exhibit with his wife and seventeen children, saying he cannot afford admission. The keeper agrees to bring the elk out to view the man and his large family.
An explorer narrates the perilous task of fetching and transporting vast ivory caches across Africa. He describes the absence of infrastructure, the danger from hostile tribes and insects, and the constant threat to porters who share the heavy burden.
In a San Francisco Examiner excerpt a child asks if all good children go to heaven and if so there will be no room for a playground. The remark contrasts faith and practicality, highlighting a child's view of paradise and space for play.
Describes early descriptions by Rhazes around 900 A D and the disease’s gradual spread from southern Europe during the crusades. Notes its introduction to the Americas, carried from Spain to Santo Domingo and to Mexico in 1517, with large native population losses and widespread devastation across villages and tribes.
Commander J W Bush of the Fourth Brigade Alabama division United Confederate Veterans calls for three days of martial law to disarm citizens. He says Civil War experience justifies arming Confederate veterans to aid in disarming troublemakers and to let the National Guard return to other duties.
Charleston Ind Aug 25 During a violent fit of coughing a pin covered with rust flew from the throat of Miss Grace Harris a schoolteacher twenty two years old of this city who swallowed it sixteen years ago Miss Harris had almost forgotten having swallowed it though she has since been troubled with sore throat and a slight indistinctness in her speech
In Joliet on August 24, seven year old Fred Cindoniski fatally shoots his three year old sister Bessie with a loaded shotgun. The father, resting on a bed in the same room, is unaware of the danger until the gunfire startles him.
The forecast calls for fair conditions across Illinois Indiana and Lower Michigan with rising temperatures. Wisconsin and Iowa are expected to be generally fair and warmer through the evening.
Chicago and East Buffalo reports list diverse commodities with prices for hogs, cattle, sheep, and calves. Trade shown includes receipts, ranges for choice and prime stock, and hay and grain sample prices.
Call up Phone No. 1 and leave orders which will be promptly attended up by Frank Rogers. Give street and number.
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