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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1901
Page
3
The speaker recalls childhood scenes of nature and fishing as nostalgia for youthful ambition. The verse contrasts past happiness with present doubt about success, ending with a wry question about retaking a life of grand ambitions despite pain and loss.
Kenneth Semester hides a failing business and lies to his father in law Mr Harris by keeping Marcia’s fortune and a counterfeit life in Mountainville. When Harris is ruined by the deception he plans to return home but Kenneth resists and aims to secure new capital from Eastern investors while maintaining the ruse.
In Mountainville, an elderly man falls prey to a temperance tale and a deceptive drink. His son-in-law Kenneth and daughter Marcia navigate guilt, forgiveness, and a costly ruse that ends with a new NY life and lingering regret. The tale recalls a past deception that haunts the capitalist jumper.
A speaker recalls lecturing over 2 200 times and meeting an old strict gentleman in every hall who sits unmoving, scowling, deaf to humor. The tale, told with wit, underscores the stubborn audience member who ruins or relieves the performance.
The death of Dr Decroix is announced at age 4. He founded the French Anti Tobacco Society and was a zealous advocate of horseflesh as food. Born in Savy Pas-de-Calais he became chief veterinary surgeon of the French army.
A London jam maker placed an order for twenty eight tons of apricot pulp imported from California. The deal highlights ongoing trade in canned fruit products between the United States and the United Kingdom.
A Chicago News article summarizes a forthcoming department of agriculture bulletin on Hawaiian native plants. It details woods used for canoes outriggers and masts, carved idols, kapa mallets, bark fibers for mats and nets, dyes for kapa and tattoos, and kahuna medicine sources. It notes sandalwood’s boom and collapse between 1810 and 1825, with wealth from trade and a tabu on remaining trees, plus references to naio fragrance, ohia ha, kela, mamame, halepepe, and lehua as durable timbers and fuels.
The southern California coast is bordered by offshore island arcs from Santa Barbara to Corona del Mar in a virtual coast range. The area hosts deep-water currents that attract whales, especially California gray, migrating north along the coast after giving birth in the Gulf of California. Passengers on transits often glimpse playful, curious whales near ships, with rare collisions noted and one whale later towed in for processing after a vessel struck it near Santa Catalina.
A note on a company creating printing without ink and a forecast of rapid change, contrasted with the enduring use of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for dyspepsia indigestion biliousness insomnia constipation and nervousness. The piece also mentions a quartet described as the four corners of the earth.
An advertisement touts Smith's Sure Kidney Cure as the guaranteed remedy for Bright's Disease with a money back offer. It claims the ailment spares no one and lists 50 cent price and availability at all druggists.
A compact remark notes distrust as the final learning of a great mind while discussing cure and constitutional remedy ideas. The line pairs a health product with political language to suggest skepticism in public discourse.
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