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Newspaper
Brandon News
Location
Brandon, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1902
Page
6
Reporter Dick, jaded by city press politics, uncovers a startling link to Herbert Knox, the beloved son of his editor, revealing the embezzler behind a forged scheme. Dick prepares a clean, powerful story that could topple the Knox empire and ruin the boy’s spotless image.
In a tense private moment, Dick betrays a plot twist involving Alice Knox, the twin sister of his central character. The old man pleads to keep the secret from his son and daughter, offering a price for the copy. Dick agrees to name the cost later, hinting at a future revelation.
Ex Speaker Thomas B Reed showed a sharp edge when confronted by a gushing admirer at a Washington club. A bystander recalls Reed’s terse reaction and his quip that the visitor from New York “knows more men who don’t want to know him.”
A reflection on youth avoiding the hard work behind success. It urges facing drudgery and conquering obstacles as you advance. The metaphor urges destroying weeds to secure flowers and future fruit, warning that neglect leads to a barren harvest.
A Tailor from the Tower is shown a letter written by Amy Robsart to tailor William Edney at the Tower. The missive, cited in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth, mentions a gown alteration and promises payment. Robsart died at Cumnor House before completion, leaving the tailor waiting five years for settlement by the Earl of Leicester.
In May 1301 James McDonald, a Mallaig fisherman, saved three girls when a squall capsized their boat. He kept them on the keel, swam to an islet, then ferried each girl to safety on the rock. The Royal Humane Society awarded him its medal for the rescue.
A field report recounts the May 2 1902 assault on Fort Pandapatan by American forces aided by a field battery. The Moro fort proved stubborn with stone walls bamboo stockades and trenches. Despite heavy close range fire from lantakas and improvised ordnance and deaths on both sides the Americans breached the fort by dawn.
French writer Jean Finot discusses aging, listing three causes. Lack of outdoor physical activity, microbial poisoning unresolved by phagocytes, and fear of death. He notes fear often dominates and paradoxically death can be strangely pleasant.
A Cleveland minister's children share a home where dolls are favorites. The younger daughter confides that she hopes Santa brings a respectable boy doll, noting they lack a boy doll in either family and that since Harry broke Jumpie-Vampire the monkey doll has assumed the preacher’s role.
Corean police order servants to slow horses after reports they trample children. A mapoo rider was stopped, and soldiers quickly removed the police.
Government experiments show meat loses much weight during cooking due to water evaporation. Smaller pieces shed more weight, with lean beef from one to one and a quarter pounds losing about 45.6 percent, while five to five and three quarter pound portions lose about 30.3 percent. Nutritional loss is less than the weight loss suggests.
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