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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
7
A玄excerpt from San Francisco Argonaut recounts a Phrase-Maker who lives with a god of gold and memory. Through a long interview in a dim room, he speaks of a forgotten woman and a life centered on phrases, then dies uttering Love is living. To remember is to die.
The narrator meets the Phrase-Maker, a white man who never leaves his room in Beijing style settings. The room brimming with opulent artifacts, a servant Lee Quoy nearby, and the recluse speaks through crafted phrases drawn from his life. The tale recalls past journeys, including a Caribbean memory.
A vignette from Emerson shows his distraction by the spiritual world in late life. In Boston he passes a Millerite remark and says we can do without it. Another tale tells him dropping a quarter into Oliver Wendell Holmess hat without recognizing the famed breakfast table host.
Robert Henri recounts a Philadelphia physician Dr. W W Keen tale at an art exhibit. Keen identifies a middle aged portrait as a man who had died months earlier from heart disease.
A London social diary recounts a night of two large parties, Lady Derby in St James and Lady Salisbury in Arlington Street. Crowded rooms, a bustling staircase, and an orchestra marked the evening as guests jostled through the "white card" system, with Lady Jersey unable to gain entry and returning home at midnight after solitary carriage rides.
A manager questions a candidate about lineman experience and endurance. The applicant boasts polar expedition service saying he can stand any strain. The manager doubts his fit, remarking he would not find the pole.
A brisk exchange on rhetoric features Smith Jones as a deft debater whose opponents admit his persuasiveness. The banter shifts to broader chatter about argument styles and the lingering question of who dictates truth in debate.
A New York Sun commentary notes a changing role for chaperones from older mothers to younger married daughters in summer social life. It cites outdoor pursuits, independence, and flirtation as factors, with a rise in marriages tied to chaperone influence and debates over societal norms.
A Victorian style piece explains the body's iron in organs and blood, calcium in bones, arsenic in the thyroid, plus odd facts about sleep, pulse rhythms, and a possible sixth sense. It notes the inner ear's mystery, balance sensations, and how ear disorders affect equilibrium.
The German emperor loves thrush salms a thrush stew. Queen Wilhelmina prefers roast joints. The king of Spain likes underdone beef. Custards suit the king of Italy while the czar favors cod fried in oil. The president of the French republic chooses mutton. Edward favors well cooked mutton chops. The king of Italy’s grandfather liked bread and cheese and took it to the opera.
Dr Viguier de Maillane of France attempted to cultivate the bacillus of consumption in chicken blood serum and failed. He now reports encouraging results using chicken serum as an antitoxin for consumption.
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