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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1903
Page
7
In a tense nighttime maneuver, Captains Pope and Grindal command ten armed seamen to board a stranger ship. Crystal and crew gather cutlasses and pistols from the lazarette as the two vessels lie close, aiming to seize the prize before daylight.
Pirates Pope and Crystal loot a captured vessel then plot a split of treasure. They weigh delaying to avoid pursuit and consider pairing with a smaller ship to transfer plunder before leaving the brig. The crew debates risk and timing as night falls.
A humorous collection of odd facts about Adam and early biblical figures. It jokes about origins, parentage, and aging with playful lines such as Adam as Eden’s gardener, the first father quarreling with his sons, and a claim that Methuselah and Noah surpassed his 960 year record.
Near Billings Montana an old pioneer graveyard contains fifty two bodies all reportedly buried with their boots on. The site dates to territorial days and traces to gambler One Arm Bus Also called One Arm Bill the private cemetery allegedly holds many men slain in gunfights and brawls with coffins absent or wooden. A builder unearthed bones while laying a house foundation prompting a coroner's examination and a pioneer recount of the burials.
A new two handed scrubbing brush prototype offers rapid floor cleaning for tall buildings. It combines rotary bristle action with forward and backward motion, driven by pivoted handles and a rack and pinion system. Tested in Tacoma and Vancouver, it reportedly reduces labor by half.
The Franklin Inn Club, a Philadelphia literary society, recalls a quip about drunkenness. John Luther Long adds a sharper tale of a man so drunk he cannot find the keyhole after a failed door attempt, muttering that the keyhole was stolen.
The visit of President Loubet to London marked the first state visit by a French chief of state since Napoleon III. He went to Windsor in April 1885 by invitation of Queen Victoria. The aim was to discuss his Crimea plan, which the queen opposed, leading the emperor to abandon plans to go to Sebastopol and command allied armies.
A fragment notes annual poem submissions to Shawrock US by La Montt and La Moyne Oh with delays. It mentions sending to the Elite Set and a two year manuscript hold. The text references Sham rock V and ongoing manuscript processing.
A doctor named Michel invents a wound stitching device that speeds up closure, is painless, and easy to disinfect. The machine uses a case holding nickel hooks applied with forceps, adjustable at 25 per minute, penetrating only the epidermis to minimize pain.
A young man on a Boulevard Haussmann street car tossed a walnut toward a friend in a passing cab as a joke. The nut lodged in the throat, causing the friend to choke and die before medical help arrived. The joke teller is asked to surrender for justice.
Lorenzo A Manning owns a large pasture in Templeton Massachusetts with many cattle. John A Braithwaite was sent to count the cows but every count came up one short until he realized an extra cow was a large deer calmly mingling with the herd as he caught the animal.
John L. Rosso of New Brunswick New Jersey has not had water since 1862. Now 78, he says he drinks whiskey wine and beer in moderation and has never been ill. He claims to have forgotten the taste of water.
An exhibition in Haver hall features a window hatchet used by Indians in the Dover New Hampshire massacre era when twelve settlers were killed. The artifact connects to early colonial frontier violence and regional history.
An old account details artillery to crush termite colonies in tropical regions. It describes ant social roles workers soldiers and queens, nest structures reaching twenty feet high pyramidal towers, underground galleries wide as cannon bores, and nests five hundred times taller than the ants themselves.
A Frenchman named Lillier faces conflict between civil and military orders in Paris. Authorities ban residence in the city while military forces require him to stay. He was arrested for theft and sentenced to one month in a Paris jail. If served there, civil authorities may imprison him for residing in Paris. if sent abroad, military will prosecute.
A Bath Maine savings institution announces a 2 percent semiannual dividend, noting it has never missed a payout since its fifty one year existence and has paid as high as 9 percent in the past.
Charles Edgar Trowt of this city holds curious documents on Java Christianization. The highlight is a translation of the Lord's Prayer into Javanese by his great grandfather the Rev Mr Trowt, a Baptist missionary, with a reproduction shown.
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