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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1908
Page
2
The notice states that the item was entered as second class mail at the Wenatchee, Washington post office.
The essay urges unity to improve country life, promote pride in farming, and extend agricultural education. It argues rural discussion, tabulation of results, and college involvement can curb rural depopulation, elevate farming dignity, and match English rural pride. The piece closes with a London Telegraph note contrasting Chinese and foreign dwelling safety and heat concerns.
The article recounts a scene in Trinity Church New York where Walt Whitman refused to remove his hat. A verger confronted him, prompting Whitman to momentarily consider the act before the verger knocked the hat off. Whitman then struck the verger with the hat and exited, pursued by a red faced sexton threatening legal action.
A Hamburg paper quotes a sentimentalist condemning the Mozart museum display of Mozart's skull. The columnist argues visitors may endure artifacts like the piano and manuscripts, but the skull display shocks visitors and provokes city officials to defend the exhibit.
The London Standard reports on a Mexican school where pupils may smoke cigars after satisfactory effort, with the master smoking a large cigar and keeping a liquor bottle on his desk. Scholars are not allowed to drink, a privilege reserved for the master.
A British lieutenant of the Lincolnshire regiment announced by advertisement that he renounces his full heraldic names Quintus Tollemache Tollemache Plantagenet Tollemache Tollemache and will henceforth sign as Leo de Orellana Tollemache only on all occasions.
The inland sea dubbed by many as polar and desolate is in fact a vast body of water comparable in size to the Mediterranean, extending deep into central Canada. It challenges perceptions of Hudson Bay as a remote, unexplored expanse.
A humorous dialogue from Chicago News features Little Elmer suspecting a counterfeit nickel while Mamma and Elmer discuss money that never “talks.” A London Saturday Review jab frames modern art as a muddy, irreconcilable contrast to civilization.
A brief exchange shows a boy asking a tramp if he tires of doing nothing while the tramp replies he never complains. The Philadelphia Inquirer note captures a moment of shared troubles and stoic endurance.
Frei Honner, once a local businessman, travels to the city from Index and remarks on his regret at leaving the area whenever he visits.
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After two years devoted to cars, Mr Bragdon buys a motor boat. He sneaks a day’s instruction, then seas himself on a July afternoon. Returning soaked and disheveled, he reveals he fell overboard while attempting to fix the motor.
A Montpelier physician traveled from town to town faking a lost dog to attract attention. He paid 25 louis reward via a public crier who advertised the doctor’s titles and residence. The scheme made him the talk of the towns and drew patients, though the dog was never recovered.
A tale of French lawyer Lachaud who senses a hostile juror. A sunbeam highlights a bald head as he requests to lower a curtain, winning the obstinate juror and turning the mood of the courtroom.
An old derby hat becomes a source of practical upgrades as felt soles are cut from its inner lining. The piece argues against waste by repurposing discarded hats into comfortable boot soles.
A Wide World Magazine excerpt notes Japan’s treatment of prisoners awaiting trial. It describes remand inmates wearing a pale strawberry red kimono and white ligit Lique as a sign of presumption of innocence. When seen in public, they pass under baskets over their heads for anonymity.
The Louis Ville Courier Journal offers advice on marriage suggesting marry a bright woman for success and a pretty one for happiness. It notes a good cook helps digestion, but cautions that the laws restrict a person to only one spouse.
A London Mail note explains that a hen egg is mainly water with little nutritious content, compares white and yellow shells, ranks eggs by species value from goose to plover, and advises cooking at 180 degrees for ten minutes to maximize digestion while warning three minute boils waste energy. sulphur is highlighted as beneficial.
A witty exchange unfolds as a black witness declares hunger after two hours of truthful testimony, prompting the judge to quip about the length of his honesty while the Atlanta Constitution notes the humorous moment.
A light exchange about a husband who counts to ten before speaking. One woman notes the habit, another quips that since his dyspepsia the home feels like a running arithmetic lesson.
A humorous scene unfolds as a man lends his pen to a woman who writes with praise and playful romance. Their banter shifts from admiration for the instrument to humor about affection and money, ending with a quip about cash.
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