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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1908
Page
8
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A poultry item from Pennsylvania cites demand for young guineas and large-scale breeding. The piece notes prices for wild game dishes, describes guinea anatomy and plumage, and extols guinea meat and eggs as culinary fare, urging readers to join in guinea culture nationwide.
Do not ship birds to exhibitions haphazardly and ensure they are fed and watered. Tip attendants, buy grit, avoid fruit rots, and provide green fodder. Choose birds suited to climate, beware nervous ducks, and keep gander safety in mind. Store brooders properly to prevent dirt and disease.
A playful verse recounts meeting a guinea on farms and city trips with comical whistles and calls like Buckwheat Bob White Trum Quack. It notes changing fashions from polka dots to parsley fringe, and rising costs from home to town, ending with a playful punch about attire.
Solutions cover eye opening to twelve days and six weeks weaning, reasons mother eats young, squab rearing cycles of ten to fourteen days, pigeon feeding up to next hatch, and that adults may be unfriendly after. Also guidance on bone cutters, peacocks bearing five to eight eggs, ferret use for rats with chicken risk, and using tallow in rat diets for chickens during fattening stages.
A lively column mocks fancy pigeon fanciers, fair associations, and poultry buyers while noting the need for medium sized birds with plump bodies. It jokes about hens, squabs, and racing homers, cites a Buckhorn Va theft leaving teeth behind, and lampoons lawmakers withholding poultry funding.
A rustic man fails a railway exam for color blindness, saying politeness led him to pretend the green object was green. He explains he could not tell the examiner the truth, deciding politeness cost him the job and he will not practice such politeness again.
A poem contrasts sowing seeds of kindness with sowing seeds of pain. It foresees a bleak harvest if malice prevails, warning that remorse and a maddened mind will yield a ruinous season. The verses frame moral action and consequence as universal natural law.
General Dabney H. Maury recalls an old Fredericksburg woman who supported herself by boarding. During a dire shortage she told her servant Nancy to offer mush to the boarders and to hope for their Christian patience or else consider the offer too good.
In 1848 Lamartine, at the height of fame and serving as a cabinet minister, issued La Marseillaise de la Paix. Editor Buloz offered to deduct the poem from debt, but Lamartine insisted on paying and returned 2000 francs to his pocket with a grand gesture.
A keeper at a zoo tosses live rabbits into a python cage. The reptiles seize the prey immediately and swallow them whole, prompting a sharp exchange with a scholarly onlooker who quips about growing some.
A dismissed couple, once engaged and then estranged, test pride by pretending amnesia. A young man visits on business with the father. the woman fails to recognize him and asks who called, prompting a brief, awkward exchange as he departs.
A compact reflection on reason shaping matter’s properties without changing its bulk or structure. The idea likens reason to a magnetic influence, visible only by its effects and perceptible through its operations as stated by Caleb Colton.
An English village rector encounters an old slow-moving man who is fleeing, apparently trying to escape the vicar. The clergyman recognizes him as a member of his congregation who has not attended church recently, and the rector hurries after him.
A curious old tale recounts John, fearing a spoken prophecy about his marriage. He recalls a fortune teller predicting three splices for him to ward off the ginger haired girl Sally’s daughter Nelly. He hides from church to avoid a match with the ginger haired girl.
A passerby overhears a rural scene near Sous Besselem where a daughter calls to her brother in a strong Pennsylvania Dutch accent. She says, George, you come right in now. Pa's on the table, and pa's half et. The anecdote highlights rare expressions from eastern Pennsylvania settlers.
Dawson visits a dentist after a severe toothache. The tooth is removed under gas, requiring double the normal effort. Upon paying, Dawson quips that next time a gas session will need a meter. The exchange ends with a sharp rebuke about pricing.
A hostess corrects a guest amid talk of sending “our motor” to the station. The host, late to breakfast, is teased and explains he mislaid “our trousers,” revealing a playful domestic dispute over possessions and tone.
The passage cites a letter to a daughter about earning happiness by showing attention. It compares the world to a Mansfield miller who cared for nobody, and urges visible kindness through quiet acts of courtesy. The advice stresses attentive consideration in daily moments at table, outdoors, or in conversation.
The famed pianist Chopin disliked performing at social gatherings. When pressed by a hostess after dinner, he replied with melancholy humor that he had eaten only a little and asked if playing was really necessary.
A conductor and his brakeman confront a group riding in a box car heading to Atchison. Both men refuse to eject the old schoolmates, citing loyalty and sentiment as they face a threat with a gun. The episode ends with the men staying aboard.
A college professor who favored gotten over get sent a telegram to his wife saying Have gotten tickets for the theater tonight Meet me there. The telegraph operator trimmed the phrasing to Have gotten tickets a simplification that delighted the professor's wife and prompted her to host a party of eight. After the mix up was explained the professor began to abandon his old habit of using gotten.
A critique equates opium and cocaine with the lotus myth, warning the drug habit as a growing, insidious evil across all social classes. It urges the press and pulpit to expose secretive use, sound the alarm, and mobilize public action to curb the vice.
A reader complains that my report misprinted his daughter's name Gratia as Gratis. The exchange turns on whether the misspelling changes the wedding’s record. The brief note reflects the paper’s audience interaction and light tone.
A dialect skin of a Chicago News blurb describes a mysterious figure, Oh Misted Grip, slipping through town pulling crowds, coughing and wheezing, while a spectator notes water in the eye and a shoe being sneezed at.
Powell tells New York Sun he cannot give an exact date but has written his wife that the slow boats are safer. The quip centers on a humorous exchange about travel plans and European departure.
Owing to the Gardner case in district court this week, which will consume several days, the jury has been dismissed until Monday afternoon at 1 30.
Local notes report new pictures and songs at the air dome this evening. Miss May Meyers of Rubio was in the city yesterday shopping. Mrs R H Clyde and son Joe were passengers for Ainsworth last evening. Mrs S Welch of North avenue remains in about the same condition. Mrs Louisa Stevenson of Clarion Iowa arrived to visit at the Ingham home. Arthur Ingham leaves for Iowa City to resume university work. Louisa Stevenson and Mr and Mrs Lou Thompson of Clarion visited at Keota today. The Forgey sisters and others attended a band concert in Ainsworth last evening.
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