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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1908
Page
6
A humorous local tale recalls brothers Jack and Harry. Jack uses a clever marble square riddle, arranging thirty two marbles into three evolving squares to remove twelve marbles from Harry’s pile, convincing him the feat is possible and winning the marbles.
The article describes ancient fire making techniques. Coastal tribes use a crockery fragment in bamboo and dry fungi, struck to ignite tinder. Inland groups employ a lead cup fitting a bamboo joint, striking to spark ignition.
A description of a balancing exercise where a person stands on the rear legs of a chair with one foot on the front seat and the other on the chair back. It highlights the challenge and focus required to maintain stability during the pose.
A boys home trains dozen youths to balance on chairs for an annual display. The exercise, practiced by the boys, involves twelve mounted chairs held in balance on command by the commanding officer.
M Camille Flammarion publishes a child friendly astronomy work. The piece notes a hypothetical train to the sun at 3744 mph would take 283 years and never reach the sun, becoming vaporized first. Ticket to the moon costs 7680 dollars, to the sun 2 880 000 dollars, and to the nearest star 820 000 000 000 dollars.
A fragmentary verse of questions and answers on fate and objects. The exchange touches on destiny, crafts, halves of cheese, a one footed object, and prisoners in bailouts, all in a playful cryptic style.
George Gemunder of New York created a new violin that rivaled a Stradivarius and impressed players like Ole Bull Remenyi and Wilhelmj. At the Paris exposition experts called it a Stradivarius, but when Gemunder claimed it was his own fresh creation the committee accused him of imposture and refused to believe him.
The article notes apes like gorillas and chimpanzees share many traits with humans but cannot twiddle their thumbs. It explains the gorilla thumb is short and lacks independent flexor muscles, preventing circular thumb movement.
A New York Globe quote notes the public fuss over signatures that shift week to week. Bank tellers explain nervousness and temperament as causes, making it hard to verify same-hand forgery. Experts identify handwriting traits to prove consistency though variability persists.
A medical man recalls gender differences in reactions to terminal illness. He notes men tend to fight death, seek specialists, and pursue operations, while women are likened to fatalists who accept fate and delay decisive treatment.
A famous writer fears unknown correspondents after receiving a letter claiming the author’s name was given to a baby. The sender sent a thick sealed envelope marked not to be opened until the child’s 30th birthday, leaving the author intrigued and anxious about the revealing contents.
The London Chronicle reports William Watson composing lines while ill in London and unable to eat a meal. He notes strange sauce and meat mingled, and longs for the porridge of his youth as he tries to eat and understand his appetite.
A London Sketch note mocks a disguise played to mislead audiences about a figure in a well known battle. The author questions how the crowd mistook one man for another until the truth emerged.
The Houston Post quotes a remark about a car going very fast with the bulldog beside him appearing as a dachshund. The line uses humorous imagery to emphasize speed.
A business man dropped a silver mounted fountain pen through a West Third street grate. Two newsboys offered to retrieve it for a fee. One boy chewed five cents worth of gum, used a yardstick, and fished the pen to the surface.
In midsummer on parts of Brittany’s coast men and boys dig shallow parallel trenches in the wet beach with hoes to uncover lancons. The silvery fish leap from the sand and are seized before they bury again. Smaller lancons feed mackerel brit, larger ones are fried like smelts. Night tides yield lancons up to a foot long.
The Liverpool Post notes a nightly pattern in hospital head injuries. Saturday sees mainly employed men, drunk after wages and pawned clothes, leading to brawls. Monday becomes “ladies' night” with wives redeeming husbands' suits and sharing the proceeds in fights. The refrain: another woman in the same house is the assailant.
A Philadelphia Bulletin quote notes married paupers favor separate living in almshouse wards. The mixed ward stays near empty as husbands bachelor among men and wives age into old maids among women, with nightly snoring and nagging driving a practical separation.
In a London east end attic eviction a man with a valise leaves a small rent debt behind. A bystander finds a bulky manuscript containing an elaborate national debt refunding scheme for the British empire.
In a Chicago Tribune style note a vagrant named Tifford-Knott faces a $30 fine plus costs after being brought before a police justice. He protests that his only property is a plugged nickel two-bit worth, calls the fine unreasonable, and declares an appeal.
A man buys a watermelon for 50 cents and resells it for 50 cents. The buyer returns it for 40 cents, then the seller later profits by selling again for 60 cents. The problem asks how much profit the seller made.
A clipped quip from the Chicago Record-Herald questions how Sniggsley earned a reputation for wisdom as his wife talks endlessly, preventing him from showing his ignorance.
An aphoristic line contrasts life without Ibefty with life sacrifice, asserting joy is absent yet life gains greatness through sacrifice. The quotation underscores austere perspective on joy and meaning.
The piece recounts Ray Stannard Baker's tale of a Tennessee mulatto who passes as white on a riverboat to Cincinnati. He sits with whites, then, overwhelmed by loneliness, returns to the black passengers after hearing their songs, declaring he has been a Negro ever since.
Robert Fulton was born in Little Britain Lancaster County Pennsylvania on November 14 1765. Biographers call him a self made man and note his father left little financial patrimony. The senior Fulton helped found local institutions including the Presbyterian church Union Fire Company and Juliana library in Lancaster.
An explorer recounts the fourmilion an insect in the Sahara that digs a funnel shaped hole and lies hidden. When a beetle spider or ant probes the hole it pummels the visitor with a sand hail blinding and suffocating him then dismembers him and stores the remains in a larder for later meals.
The taliout palm Corypha umbraculifera of Ceylon bears fruit but once in a lifetime. The tree reaches about ten feet trunk girth and 180 feet height. Flowers appear in a tall spathe whose rupture signals death of the tree, revealing a plume of blossoms. Inflorescence yields conspicuous fruit bunches and, when ripe, the tree withers within two weeks locally.
A remark cited by Mr Howe in the American Bookman suggests Fitz-Greene Halleck attracted a superior lady who would choose him even on the way to marriage. An epigram praised him by a young admirer seeking an autograph and hints at pursuing his name for fame.
Dialogue from a stage interaction shows Mr Subberton demanding order and a former restaurant cook kept on the job with a peach pastry in a chaotic kitchen scene. Mr Townley inquiries the purpose as the exchange erupts over shouting and humorous exclamations.
At the wedding breakfast a famed blunderer rose and cried, I drink to the health of the bridegroom. May he see many days like this. The remark caused anxious laughter among guests who knew his reputation.
A New York Press piece notes historians dispute height records for figures from Julius Caesar to Napoleon and Washington. It questions the accuracy of legendary statures, comparing rulers like Charlemagne and Robert the Bruce and joking about sizes of famous leaders.
The Atlanta Constitution quotes Brother Williams railing against modern advances. He jokes that even Joshua could halt the sun to save gas, while Jonah would not swallow a whale, Lot would fence his salt wife, and the nation would trust salt. He laments rapid progress and claims wisdom itself looks foolish as they hurry toward an uncertain future.
An elderly preacher’s wife, bedridden and anxious to hear her pastor, is given a bedside sermon by telephone. The doctor warned against leaving home but allowed the arrangement. At noon on Sabbath, the elder reported the plan worked. she fell asleep ten minutes after the sermon began.
After a London concert at St James Hall Robert Louis Stevenson and an eccentric companion walk to Marble Arch in silence. The friend then comments on the elderly statesmanlike manner at the piano before they continue on.
A farmer, proud of his fattening stock, bought a pair from a neighbor. At eight weeks the piglets looked small to him. He joked that he should keep the cat shut up for a few days, suspecting the animals might be undersized.
Mamma-Good, gracious, Georgie asks what is wrong with Freddie Jones. Georgie replies Freddie dies stutters and could not say a long word before Bobble ran twice around the block.
Fragmentary items include a theft or charity scene with a poor washerwoman and hungry children, a theater outing, and a discussion of names James George William. Also a Brentford court note mentions a three month old baby with bread cheese and beer.
The excerpt argues that high quality printed materials reflect on a business and affect patrons. It stresses the need to use proper paper, presentation, and professional wording. It promotes professional printing services to convey credibility and avoid appearing cheap.
Plain and Fancy Printing advertises reliable service with neat, attractive results for all orders. It emphasizes a fully equipped shop, a large variety of type and material, a competent staff, and that orders left at the office will receive prompt attention.
Fragmentary quotation shows a cranky boarder lamenting a stubborn stain theme as a humorous bits from a Philadelphia Press item. The readable text centers on a joke about a cellar board and a lingering seepage.
A garbled OCR fragment contemplates the deathless nature of a fire that destroys but never dies, citing Cicero in a paradoxical line. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or attribution details.
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