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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1907
Page
6
Jem Lister a stubborn drinker and penny pincher faces mockery from shipmates as his avarice and thirst collide. Bill Henshaw brings sharp talk and the crew watches Lister vow to reform while plotting a cautious future and a hidden stash aboard.
A cook and an aging seaman named Mr Lister form an odd friendship on the Susannah. Lister drafts a will leaving his estate to the cook, sparking a plan and moral danger as the crew confronts possible poisoning and a deranged plot amid shipboard tensions and a looming voyage.
At Lexington Virginia centenary events for General Robert E Lee Charles Francis Adams remarked it would have done as Lee did though it may be deemed traitorous to say so. Andrew White the US ambassador at Rome reportedly had an encounter with King Victor Emmanuel during a shooting episode.
A Chicago News excerpt reports Turks prize water meeting many conditions from rock source to cool temperature and rapid flow. They visit famed springs for daylong drinking feasts called water life, with resorts named Water of Life and Silver Water along the Bosporus.
A Strand Magazine anecdote praises filial obedience. The woodman tells his son not to trim branches but to set the axe at the tree base. The son follows the instruction and spends the day fishing, illustrating virtue in dutiful conduct.
A discussion about a woman's dressmaking as a measure of her suitability for marriage. One speaker deems it industrious and sensible, while the other argues it reflects her father's poverty.
Sallie Van Wick of the Anderson Driving Club in Atlanta extols Vinol as a stomach friendly cod liver oil tonic that strengthens health after a severe cold. A Cook & Sherman pharmacist touts Vinol’s lack of useless oil and added iron, promising refunds if no benefit, and notes Vinol is sold nationwide through agency listings.
Edna Riley and Bernice Riley have left Brighton after visiting friends and relatives and returned home in Crawfordsville last evening.
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