MISCELLANY The Last Frontier. In New Glasgow, N.S., the News printed a classified ad: "WANTEDA good woman who wishes a good home. Will marry if necessaryCharlie Morrison."
Origin of Specious. In London, in the name of the staid Lord's Day Observance Society, hoaxers sent out calendars with pictures of sketchily clad young women and a verse under the January pinup:
Of faerie grace and elfin feature She is just the kind of creature Who destroys our resolution Giving place toevolution.
May There Be No Moaning. In Penobscot Bay, Me., Harbor Pilot George Jennings steered...
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