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Newspaper
Winchester The Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1912
Page
4
A series of notices from residents including Marah Bucy Steward Grim James M Brown and W L Whisson announce their candidacies for Winchester Virginia city council. Each pledges to serve the people to the best of their ability and to perform duties faithfully if elected.
The record shows Theodore Roosevelt repeatedly denied or delayed a presidential bid from 1903 to 1911, finally entering active campaigning in 1912 and threatening to travel to Chicago to lead a personal campaign. He may only be fit for leading his own controversial Ananias Club.
A verse by Walt Mason laments indecision and repeated failures. Jasper and Jagper miss chances, face homelessness, and wander in a world that seems stacked against them. The speaker reflects on missed opportunities and ongoing doubt.
A Bladensburg merchant dozed in his shop when a boy asked for a quart of milk. The merchant half opened his eyes and lamely asked if anyone sells milk, illustrating the town's reputed laziness in a humorous tale from history.
Mariners in the Levant favor a quirky treatment for seasickness. They daily swallow iron rust scraped from the anchor and tie a small pouch of roasted salt and thyme to the abdomen to counteract internal distress from the vessel’s rolling.
A fragment describes stem six quarts of grapes washed and heated with water then brought to a boil, boiled hot, and the juice returned to the fire before bottling. The text is incomplete but indicates a juice preparation method.
A compact study of humorous storytelling from Twain notes that humor is an art best told orally yet can be captured without art by anyone. The piece contrasts high delicacy in art with the simplicity of wit and emphasizes American origins.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer column two men joke about a St. Paul man winning a prize for embroidering a lunch cloth. They speculate on wives bored by bridge, the gossip at the table, and future imitation by card sharps, ending with a light note of shared sorrow.
Madeira streets stay icy and dusty as lichens cover stone paving. The abundant lichens make streets slippery yet suppress dust, and a suggestion arises to cultivate them elsewhere to address the dust problem.
Swiss flora yields rich honey, and thousands of bees are kept across the confederation. Beekeeping supports food supply and commercial products, with honey and wax production forming a major industry as shown by Swiss apiculture statistics.
A short tip from National Magazine suggests drying potato peels and burning them in the stove to clean chimneys. It claims potato peelings burn fiercely and carry soot out of the chimney, benefiting households using soft coal.
The Chicago Post notes a fixed habit of whistling on a tugboat by a young boy and a mature man, who is spanked into awareness of a rule. A time may come when whistling can occur without angering neighbors, but legal punishment could fit the current noise nuisance.
A quip laments rich misers whose purses seem frozen when they reach in. The speaker mocks greed and warns of punishment, proposing a reversed justice to strip wealth. The line ends with a vivid image of hanging misers by the heels to drain their money.
A man learns that earning money alone cannot keep happiness at home. Genuine attention and love toward his spouse transform a household, letting happiness seep into every corner and moment. He discovers fulfillment comes from balance between work and intimate care.
Alfred K Scanze, a Haniel engineer, sought a permit to bear a Te bia after claiming a Chinese secret society hunted him from Che Foo harbor to New York with threats of death. He recounts rescuing a Chinese girl who allegedly became an offering to a river god, and notes a threatening letter delivered at Broadway and Thirty Fourth Street.
Wolves driven from cold highland forests menace villages near the Rozaly mountains in Hungary. Cattle losses mount as a bear defends itself in a garden, killing two wolves, while a farmer in Vessrod kills a wolf by trapping it a doorway with a chair.
A brief ad notes misfit excellence and thrust upon people, inviting readers to advertise spring goods. The line hints at casual promotion of seasonal merchandise.
A ten pound two foot long rat attacked five family members at their ground floor home in East New York. The beast bit a woman and sent others into hysteria before being slain by a shovel-wielding neighbor after a desperate, nightlong battle.
Earl Shaffer fatally fires on Philip Smith and Mrs Shaffer and stepson as they ride past Coleraine Ohio on National Road. Shaffer had threatened Smith and waited behind bushes during a family trip for turkey dinner. Both men and a woman are wounded with Shaffer causing the deaths en route to hospital.
In Mount Clemens Michigan eight eight the town sees a dispute in the local telephone exchange. Thirty operators and a district manager clash over headband devices worn on duty. The operators claim the contraption causes coins to form on their ears and threaten to quit if no alternative headset is provided.
Junius Spencer Morgan Jr., grandson of J P Morgan, defied police by not stopping his car in Cambridge Massachusetts. He was fined 25 dollars and appealed the decision.
Greene McAdoo, staying at a Detroit boarding house, confes sed in his sleep to associates that he was wanted in Greensboro North Carolina for wife murder. He was arrested.
In a terse reflection, the piece contrasts gravity as a force of nature with wisdom as a cultivated park of thought. It suggests Confucian values guide minds toward order, harmony, and ethical living within a world of physical laws.
In Philadelphia the 72-year-old Peter Jones of the Eleventh district police station, despite a broken wrist, subdued a violent prisoner named Lawrence Nash, 50, who attacked him after demanding water. Jones overpowered Nash and locked the cell door.
A brief quotation attributed to George Eliot notes that those who trust us contribute to our education, framing trust as a catalyst for learning and personal growth.
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