The Sinking of a Small Island

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Frequent seismic manifestations of late had prepared the world for news of some such upheaval as that which is reported off the coast of Salvador, accompanied by the sinking of a small island. This has involved a lamentable loss of life, and illustrates anew the peril of making homes in the earthquake-ridden sections of the earth, for several similar catastrophes have occurred in that quarter.
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In Colorado they propose a law making it an offense for doctors to cut out patients' appendices unless it is necessary. The enactment of such a statute would enable us to foresee the time when professional ethics would require every doctor to testify that all his brother practitioners' appendix-pruning was positively required.
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Feminine Financiering
He -- I've won our bet on the football game and you owe me ten kisses.
She (a commercial school graduate) -- Very well, I'll give you a draft on mamma.
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--The Ellis Review-Headlight, Ellis, Kansas, 1911.