A New Kind of Albam
Something Tlini wil: Blnbr Von *it «'|> nod fiii l'p t The familiar alarum is no longer good enough to get the transatlantic sluggard —if such a one there be—out of bed in the morning (says the "Pall Mall Gazette"). Alarums are always the same thing, and you get used to them, and they take no rise out of you. The telephone is different. You subscribe, the telephone is laid on to your ear, as near a? ; may be, and you hear that o' mornings ! which is warranted to make you sit up I and get up. Besides, you get a different form of summons every day. and this i thing never palls upon you. For a small ■ extra charge you ran have a phonograph i attachment which can be turned on to ; Bay your prayers for you. " This is no laughing matter," said ; the edi'tor to the author as lie handed ; him buck his jokes. A hundred years ago the West Indies supplied nearly all the cotton required | for the world's markets.
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Lake County Press, Issue 906, 12 April 1900, Page 2
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177A New Kind of Albam Lake County Press, Issue 906, 12 April 1900, Page 2
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