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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1894
Page
6
A playful verse on chessboard royal life titled The Lay of the Scarlet King. It contrasts a pompous king with a queen who dominates the board and a surrounding warfare theme, ending with a lyric note about Eleanor Waddle in Youth's Companion.
Katherine Gardner faces terror as Sioux horsemen march toward her homestead in Minnesota. She orders Beulah to free the colt and hide the children in the cistern while she plans escape, keeping her family safe amid the sultry prairie and looming danger.
Katherine and family survive a prairie fire and Sioux attack after back firing to save their cabin. Katherine is captured by cowering warriors but rescued by her father and soldiers, ending with a reunion and reflection on the 1872 siege.
The narrator explains a failed delivery due to a reindeer shoe mishap and a stop in Maine to fix it. He notes missing items like the horn, dram, sled, mittens, and candy in children’s stockings, and promises a picture by Frank Ver Heck to explain the incident.
An account notes a distressing moment where blood ties matter as a wounded soldier is cared for. Fire surrounds trapped men as Confederates halt fire to permit removal of the disabled, then fighting resumes with Union troops carrying wounded to safety.
An actress long known for the villainous old crone in a play must relinquish her part after discovering a growing one sidedness and a pronounced stoop that remains even offstage. The unusual ailment prompts the decision, reported by Exchange.
Readers can fashion a hoop with a pasted strip and a small weight inside. By placing it on an inclined plane with the weight ahead of the hoop’s highest point, the hoop rolls up the plane, appearing to defy gravity. Replacing the hoop with a hollow box yields a similar result.
The passage describes young frogs and toads as tadpoles. They start as head and tail, develop four legs in a few days, and lose the tail to become frogs. Tadpoles live underwater, while adult frogs cannot stay underwater long.
The late Duke of Leinser died of typhoid fever on December 1 at Carton near Maynooth. His eldest son Maurice, born March 1 1887, becomes duke and heir to premier duke, marquis and earl in the Irish peerage. He has three other children, a daughter and two sons. A full length picture of the young peer is presented.
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