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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1908
Page
7
A brief humorous exchange notes thanks for small things and a daily hash for lunch in February. A waiter jokes about perseverance solving a brussels sprout hiding a steak. A classroom quip mocks math by a clever pupil referencing baskets of grapes and a seller’s price.
A collection of wry maxims contrasts appearances and ethics. Lines joke about women’s grooming, honesty in love, and social climbing with aphorisms on marriage money and propriety, all delivered in a sharp domestic satire voice.
Kansas City theatregoers welcome William Collier’s Willis Wood appearance the week of November 8 in The Patriot a three act farce by J Hartley Manners and Collier Collier known for Caught in the Rain The Dictator On the Quiet and The Man from Mexico The Patriot marks his career high in comedy and heart appeal The Bobbs Merrill Co issued two gift volumes The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch by Henry Wallace Phillips and The Better Treasure by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews packaged with Bunker’s decorative illustrations
A historical account describes tiger hunting in India using elephants. It notes elephant cost and care, dangers from skittish elephants and enraged bees, howdahs and mahouts guide hunts, and the risks to riders while elephants clear paths and carry supplies in dense jungles.
A hunter reflects on returning from Africa with fever and loss, recalling the lure of the jungle. He admits the lure of ivory, the allure of danger, and the endless pull of the wild after brief rests.
The report touts Western Canada as ideal for grain farming with 30 50 bushel yields and profits per acre, noting land value gains and a free grant expansion. It quotes Leslie M Shaw and an Iowa editor praising growth, railways, programs, and American immigration to Saskatche wan area.
The only iron foundry in Colombia is La Paradera in Bogota. It operates on a small scale using native ores smelted and remelted for casting. Commercial deposits exist inland and a coastal ore body near the Caribbean is being explored by American engineers.
The Munich Jugend lists five criteria to assign painters to schools. A gray sky and black grass signals the classical school, sky blue with green grass marks realism, sky green and grass bite indicates impressionism, sky yellow with purple grass names Golocist, and sky black with red grass signals a pope session of great decorative talent.
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