A Petruchian Method to win a wife recounted
TRUMAN BASSFORTD relates a tale of Barnard and Agnes Bugbee set in early automotive days. A husband feigns opposition to secure his wife, then discovers true affection, ending with a model marriage.
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Newspaper
Barre Daily Times
Location
Barre, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1903
Page
3
TRUMAN BASSFORTD relates a tale of Barnard and Agnes Bugbee set in early automotive days. A husband feigns opposition to secure his wife, then discovers true affection, ending with a model marriage.
Miss Schenck, famed for flaunting a pigtailed fashion, parades on Tellerne avenue in wet, chic attire drawing admirers yet shunning a parasol. Nathalie Selick, seen amid Newport’s set including Miss Barbe and Miss Parsons, rises as the season’s stylish talk, hailed for grace and a striking, wet look.
A fantasy tree in the gardens of Grey's Town, London, revived after a period of decline. The plant tale notes the tree's line of care and a renewed vigor attributed to a change in gardening method and attention by local stewards.
Miller Reese Mateh of New York invented a dry storage battery with immediate available energy and a design that allows six volts from a six ounce parcel. The device can be carried in a pocket and inverted without harm, aiming for medical and industrial uses with potential automaker adaptations in the future. A second invention prevents reverse current by automatic signaling when charging, though the text is garbled and some details unclear.
A peculiar water gun features an Anchor shaped head resembling used designs. The device is claimed to thicken insect bold sprays firmly in targeted spots.
Servia spans about 15 600 square miles with a 2 million population. Its main wealth derives from pig farming, while wheat, maize, meadow grass and rye are key crops. The Danube trade, railways of 2400 miles, and limited industry shape its economy. literacy rises as elementary education expands. The government has seen constitutions and coups, with a strong peasant landholding system and ethnic-religious composition mainly Greek Orthodox.
In Indianapolis on June 17 the thirteenth head camp session of the Modern Woodmen of America opened. Mayor Bookwalier and Auditor Her welcomed delegates while Lieutenant Gey jerhar W. A. Nuethcott of Timois responded on behalf of the group.
Horton, June 17. Market notes show firm butter demand, broad vegetable prices, and steady meat provisions. Reports cover apples, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, beef, pork, poultry, hay, and mill products amid harvests, rail and river transport effects, with northwestern wheat and rust concerns and flood-related losses.
In Topeka Kansas a group of amateur boaters navigated a river current and capsized their craft. They drifted and were swept toward a mill dam before being aided by bystanders. An elderly observer, startled by the commotion, exclaimed about Robinson Crusoe and Friday as the scene unfolded.
A memorial to the late Charles Waldo Haskins is created by a $50,000 bequest to Har per & Bros for the endowment of the Charles Waldo Haskins professorship of auditing and history of accountancy at New York University School of Commerce Accounts and Finance. Ten thousand dollars has already been subscribed.
Report on fashion proposal by Mr. Garr and Mr. Bete Carr suggesting uniforms to blend with local clothing for African and colonial theaters. Discusses color palettes across Europe and regions such as Somaliland, Bespt qd, and London landforms. Notes aim of complete invisibility and potential future viability through material experimentation.
The Belgrade correspondent reports assassinations led by Lieutenant Colonel Mieblitsch as organizer of a conspiracy targeting Queen Draga and King Alexander. Warnings were sent, offering details that blamed enemy officers and excluded generals. A day before the murder, conspirators gathered in cafes to pore over plans and played a music piece named for Queen Draga.
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