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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1911
Page
13
In the basement auditorium of First M E church ministers and laymen met informally this morning. About six hundred fourteen pastors and old friends were remembered with unusually enthusiastic greetings. The Dolphin notes a dolphin swims briefly at twenty five miles per hour.
In Derbyville Deacon Goodhue keeps his temper until a lost dog Sambo is given him by a rejected suitor’s friend. The dog’s arrival provokes townwide clashes as sixteen farmers’ dogs attack, a crowd forms to kill the dog, and the deacon sides with Sambo. After days of chaos the town forgives the deacon, whose serenity endures and whose funeral later draws a long procession.
In a vivid anecdote from William Matthews, Napoleon used snuff to cope with unease in the council chamber. He would pinch snuff during tense talks, prompting thefts of his snuffboxes and the later magical return of prized heirloom boxes transformed into gold and diamonds.
A natural history note cites Samuel Hubbard Scudder's Frail Children of the Air describing butterflies that produce audible sounds. The whip butterfly snaps its wings when startled, some resting caterpillars tap or strike leaves, and certain chrysalises emit a brief chirp when disturbed.
A naval officer takes his son Bobby to visit a brother officer abroad where a red and blue parrot amuses guests with talk. The boy inches toward the cage and is scratched, drawing a brave expression from Bobby as he shows his bleeding finger.
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