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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1911
Page
5
A discussion of unwritten laws governing conduct at sea and in war. It cites the captain's duty to not abandon ship, officers facing danger, and the right of revolution. Includes examples from Franco-Prussian war, Farragut, Lee, Lawton, and a Louisville incident with Nelson and Davis, noting courts martial outcomes.
The excerpt describes a grim mid medieval scene around Newpate street with lanes named Stinking lane and Blowbladder street. It mentions a Butcher's bridge on the Thames near Baynsrd's castle and Offal being routed through NeWgale street, leading to royal orders in 1880 for removal due to widespread filth.
The Chicago News quotes Mrs Stubb predicting suffragette leaders with postage stamp imagery and Mr Stubb reflecting on how they would acknowledge such power in a humorous exchange about woman suffrage.
A fragmentary 19th century style exchange appears in a Courier Want Ad notice. The lines reference sewing at an air shaft and hearing clearly, mixing literary allusion with abbreviated ad language. The irregular text suggests a playful or garbled clipping in the public notices column.
A Louisville Courier article explains that astronomical clocks achieve superior accuracy. Separate dials for hour minute and second hands reduce error, with clocks placed on solid masonry piers, underground to stabilize temperature, and housed to prevent barometric fluctuations.
Macaroni fashion rose in early Georgian England as a new quiet luxury led by court exquisites. The Macaroni club formed by young travelers popularized extravagant hair, tiny hats, canes, and gilded accessories. Umbrellas then weighed over three pounds, with wood or whalebone ribs and heavy oak shafts, often topped with feathers to shed water.
A New York Tribune excerpt explains waves rolling from gas carry no water. Driftwood may ride these waves away from land as the ridge advances while the tablecloth stays fixed, akin to a wrinkle pushed across. The piece illustrates wave action with simple imagery and a comparison to a pencil stroke.
City in brief items mention eye glasses with Buchanan, lenses on display, and a ground floor space in the Syndicate Building with a hint to visit the Crystal for an opening day of Blowers addition. Other notes include hair goods and services, local residents visiting relatives, and a report that I M Sproul is recovering well. Potatoes priced at 40 cents per bushel.
A pupil recounts a tense school scene where a teacher questions a pupil about a punishment. The pupil explains the father objects to the corporal punishment, citing his arthritis in both arms as the reason. The line ends with a colloquial misprint about Lippincott's.
A London Tit-Bits joke notes a doctor’s certificate barring singing as a manager quips the singer never could sing. A separate ad from CORSON & ZIMMERMAN promotes seed potatoes at 40 cents per bushel.
Tonight offers the banner year’s top bill at the Syndicate with Palroy Major Powers and Freed Sam Barrington Frans Caesar and Chas Hay. Palroy Major charms with singing and dancing. Powers and Freed perform a novelty act. Sam Barrington showcases ventriloquism with Tommy. Frans Caesar’s trunk act impresses. Chas Hay features new Spotlight gangs. Manager Busby delivers crowd-pleasing vaudeville as the Syndicate proves a prime venue.
Elaborate Crosby's Opera House certificates linger in many homes after a January 21 1867 drawing in Chicago. Builder Uranus Crosby funded the great theater with his fortune. the lottery sold over 100 000 chances at five dollars each. Prize drawings spanned months with a grand prize won by a non resident. a buyer later offered to purchase the theater for 200 000 dollars, paid from lottery proceeds, before the 1871 fire destroyed the venue.
A French deputy arranged a Spanish teaching post for a constituent. The teacher, unaware of Spanish, led a class whose progress impressed a harsh university examiner who spoke no Spanish. A Marseille boast about Arabic ends with a court interpreter declaring the suspect’s defense as a confession.
An Italian woman calling herself Americ Vespucci stirred Washington during the Van Buren era by seeking U S citizenship and a corner of land from the public domain claiming descent from the navigator. She befriended Adams and Webster, but later was exposed as an impostor, sparking scandal and congressional debate.
A reflective note on possession as the driving instinct of creatures including humans. It claims the urge to own and guard leads to marriage, likening the pursuit of a mate to guarding treasure, with a creature’s instinct driving to secure and shelter a mate or home. The excerpt cites a line from Puck about a wife and cave as symbols of this drive.
The text notes rapid squab growth over twelve hours and accelerating after day three. It details sparse down filaments and the rooting point from which feathers begin. Down clusters linger on feather tips as growth proceeds, with speculation that the down becomes part of the shaft. Temper items and weapons are mentioned briefly.
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