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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1901
Page
6
A Denver News poem laments an old-fashioned fiddler whose distant mellow tunes haunt memory. It recalls classics like Devil's Dream Fire in the Mountain Nellie Gray and The Flying Cloud and pictures the fiddler's gestures and a pursuing halo as time holds him. The piece ends with a plea to hear the music once more.
Mrs Varney and Lord Farehaven revisit June afternoons and old memories as they tour art rooms and a village church. A past love, Pleasance Greenacre, and Hubert Steele loom in reflection while Mrs Varney and Lord Farehaven rekindle a quiet, bittersweet bond amid sunlit scenes and a long-remembered life.
Lord Farehaven speaks of gathering roses with Gladys as she questions courage and care. He asks her to show where to gather the roses, underscoring a delicate social moment about propriety and affection.
A matron recalls homeless orphans who value small comforts over toys. A girl requests a bottle of scent while a boy seeks a walking stick with a gold head, illustrating how children in need yearn for practical tokens over playthings.
Esther Vance, renowned bandit and convict, is reported near death at her Virginia City Nevada home. The article recounts her dramatic life from Missouri birth to San Francisco stage ambitions and a roaming career with gambling partners including Bad Reece, later called Vance. It details the 1887 Beowuwe stage robbery and the ensuing pursuit ending with Vance killed near Lake Tahoe after a firefight. she is noted to have been captured, convicted for robbery and murder, and imprisoned in Washoe County.
A Modern Jerusalem vignette recalls a goat on a wall near the bazaars and Moslem guides guiding ascent. The piece shifts to a Freeman anecdote about pausing a serial tale and then recounts Esther Vance’s legendary robberies and trials across Colorado, Nevada, and California, ending with a note on early rising ideals from Leslie's Weekly.
The passage asserts that investing capital in a vocation or life mission leaves little room for friendship. It argues true friendship’s cost is what one leaves undone for others, implying sacrifices hinder the growth of intellectual ideas and ventures.
Fish has high food value nearly as nutritious as chicken or turkey. The text also mentions bigamists and suggests one wife is more than the average man.
A chatty dialogue from the New York Press notes two women discussing the rumor that Mabel married, possibly first by registrar then church, with ironic remarks about motives and beauty. The piece ends with a quip about women disliking how men shake hands.
Maj. B. R. Selden and several employees swear two full grown mules leaped through a small window in the old Manchester horse stables. The Bet and Muggle mules jumped from inside to ground outside and then through the opposite window without injury, leaving visible tracks outside the stable.
A survey of new devices includes a jar sealing machine with dual levers and adjustable collars a nine bar typewriter with nine keys and two shifts improved hooks and eyes a detachable tie retainer and a water cycle with low resistance. reefing device for canoes sails a foot operated switch mechanism and a satirical passage on Porto Rican life contrasting American influence with local poverty and a stray mix of anecdotes about Carnegie and ships.
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