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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1903
Page
6
Ringold passes a flood crisis by guiding a rescue across a raging river with balloons and a line, using clever tactics to earn a port across. The girl, a rival in scorn, witnesses his improvised feat while the town chronicles his lazy reputation and a potential new path to Harlem.
In a New York Weekly style snippet a quarrel ends as a domestic line of dialogue. The exchange centers on going home to the mother and the mother’s anticipated reply, “I told you so.”
London Express reports the mysterious removal of seats from Fountain Court in the Temple. Dickens fans lament the loss of a sacred spot tied to lovers’ meetings of Ruth Pinch and John Westlock and Tom Pinch’s revelatory, comic observations about their discreet encounters.
A Detroit Journal reader recalls Max O'Rell dining with representatives of four ethnic groups in Montreal years ago. O'Rell offered a deft, nonoffensive critique, mimicking each guest's reaction with gestures, leaving observers amused and impressed by his tact and sharp humor.
Dr George M Gould argues eye strain caused mental afflictions of Browning De Quincey and Carlyle. Exophoria described as eye divergence and muscle strain with opium use possibly masking weakness of will. Carlyle and Darwin Huxley noted similar sufferings. Also notes new cellulose substitute for human hair and a German periodical report.
A fungus endangers wooden pavements in English cities, spreading from infected blocks to sound ones and controlled only by thorough wood inspection before laying and prompt removal of infected blocks. A primeval Formosa forest with 120000 camphor trees could yield 13000000 pounds of camphor gum, alongside red grained oak.
Allison asks his son to earn $2.92 by finishing an onion bed and improving arithmetic. The boy complains of worn tires and punchers while the father insists on earning money through work, recalling how he saved scraps from his own youth.
A Texas tale says Bailey, then a struggling young lawyer, rode with a farmer to a convention. The farmer urged Bailey to speak, leading to a rousing speech that vaulted the “risin’ young lawyer of these diggin’s” to the Democratic nomination and Bailey’s later Senate seat in Texas. The yarn notes a $200,000 Wall Street fee allegedly earned by Bailey.
In George J. Ellwanger's The Pleasures of the Table a French drummer is famed for a prodigious appetite. His captain bets he can eat a full calf and the drummer consumes most of it, then quips that more calf should be brought on as the tiny rickshaws will soon fill the space.
In the Somerville Journal a conversation notes a garden that appeared small before care began, highlighting the change in its appearance and condition after tending.
A concise reflection notes that advantages often appear larger than drawbacks even when the scales are balanced, highlighting perception bias in evaluating choices and outcomes. The observation suggests careful weighing of pros and cons before judging overall value.
A Kansas correspondent frames the back-of-the-ranch feud as a romantic tragedy. He alleges Daniel P. Berry and relatives were killed by Chauncey Dewey Clyde Wilson and Wm. J. McBridt after Dewey pursued Bessie Berry whom her father forced to marry Albert Vaprona. The piece links jealousy, poverty, and revenge to the ranch clash. It then shifts to national affairs noting Justice Shiras’s retirement and potential Taft nomination, with Gen Luke E. Wright and Gen Youn g as figures, plus a review of military leadership and a Chicago divinity lecture critique.
Lou Dillon of a crowd of 12 000 at Cley Ohio broke the world record for trotting mares by a quarter second. She mile in 202% making the second fastest mile ever. In Leavenworth Kansas police quell uproar as United States soldiers attempt lynching Everidge Williams and Walter Brown after a row with soldiers.
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