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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1905
Page
6
A New York Press piece tells of a man without beauty fame or noble lineage who earns respect through courage, patience, and perseverance. Despite his plain looks, critics, and a slim chance at romance, a woman falls in love and marries him, praising his steadfast, unglamorous qualities.
A brief note credits the 1905 copyright to Daily Story Pub. Co and marks Be Sosibn as a protected work. The item appears as a copyright notice rather than a story excerpt.
Marian Loveless, famed for health and independence, refuses love from suitors. Gerald Mann, smitten, vows to win her. An Italian violinist offers a radical plan to awaken her dormant romantic nature during a concert audition.
In a manager's garden conservatory the unseen artist's music stirs Marian and Gerald. The intimate setting under moonlight and roses leads to romantic tension as Gerald notices Marian's tears and tightens his embrace. The riddle of who secured the engagement remains unresolved.
The article traces ascent records from 20,992 feet in the Himalayas to 28,995 feet on Everest and notes up to 35,424 feet as the highest height ever reached by man in a balloon. It cites Mrs Bullock Workman and Mr Bullock Workman, M Beron, and aviators who used oxygen during extreme ascent.
A distressed woman at a railroad depot tells a polite attendant she has misplaced her husband. He offers condolences, but she snaps that she wants her husband back, explaining he went to get water an hour and a half earlier and she expects him to face her soon. She names Jabez Smith of Mooresville, Pennsylvania, as the one needing comfort after the excuses begin.
A poulterer explains that mild falls make turkeys fat by lingering vegetation and abundant worms and bugs. Turkeys roam long distances in warm falls feeding heavily, while frosty falls lead to less wandering, more grain, and fattiness, reducing public demand for athletic birds.
A play scene shows a character named George promising his partner to stop drinking for her sake. He vows to drink only for his own sake from now on. The curtain falls as he slips away amid the audience.
Poet Byron Williams recalls wearying of city life and noise. He longs for a return to rural roots, safer streets, familiar neighbors, and the simple comforts of home as he imagines rest in the parlor and a life away from urban strain.
Robert Crossly once visited Boston and ate olives in a cheap inn. An Irish laborer, tasting one from the same dish, called it rotten and asked if Crossly ate them because he liked them. Crossly admitted yes, and the laborer angrily proclaimed you are a liar.
Douglas sent its plainspoken representative to the Massachusetts legislature, who wore an old fashioned farmer's frock. Boston colleagues mocked the attire, but the Douglas man answered with quiet wit noting smarter men exist, yet none have clothes fit for the city hall.
A Maine neighbor recounts how the noted author Rev. Elijah Kellogg, living in Harpswell, navigated a crooked Bath to Ireland road while hauling timber. Kellogg reports he found the route “first-rate,” getting lost only twice going out and once returning.
The Chicago Chronicle describes a lakeside scene where workers sink wooden piles for fill while a group of Irish onlookers humorously question the foreman's skill. One Irish spectator boasts of hard work, then contrasts it with head work, prompting further banter.
A famed New York comedian confronts his wife's jab about their marriage weight. She had grown from doll-like to heavy, leaving the stage to thinner kin while still craving spotlight air. The dressing room showdown ends with his quip about her weight at the time of their marriage.
A Nashua Mass superior court judge granted naturalization to a Nova Scotia son who admitted membership in an anarchistic or nihilistic group. When asked what orders, he replied The Odd Fellers. He received his papers.
A government irrigation plan for 1 200 000 acres in Yuma Cal would cost 22 million to reach self support and develop canals spanning 2 000 square miles. Waterways would support traffic mills factories and electric lighting with water power as a by product. Total value projected at 320 million from land energy and navigation.
A hospital nurse is relieved from manually shaking down the column in clinical thermometers. A simple device with a handle and tubular shank holds several thermometers at once. A whirling motion rapidly pulls the mercury column to the normal point with less effort and greater speed.
To remove grease on hardwoods, apply a mix of equal parts linseed oil and turpentine with Japan drier and let dry overnight. Fill pores with a filler, then rub on paste wax and turpentine with the grain, dry, reapply wax, and polish with weighted brushes and woolen rags.
Dr. P B Shaw reported to the Royal Society a new electrical micrometer capable of measuring two millionths of a millimeter or fifty millionths of an inch. The device was used to study the tiny movement of a telephone diaphragm that produces barely audible sound. The measurement relied on an electric current linked to the micrometer and the telephone.
A Bavarian test reports a newly invented explosive named vigorite that is claimed to be ten times as active as existing explosives yet does not detonate by friction or impact. It resists damp and frost, and when ignited outdoors it merely burns. It forms from a nitrous compound with saltpeter and is described as producing extraordinary effects.
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