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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1905
Page
3
A poem fragment praises a child named Elizabeth Edith Colby describes the baby as sunlit, warm, and dear. Imagery centers on brown hair lips limbs and a bright future hinted at in a line from The Place of My Desire.
On the Lively Mary, engineer Wilson woos Mary Price amid Hoskins protective schemes. Wilson departs to marry aboard or go to the consul, and Mary chooses him, leaving Hoskins to reflect on lessons learned and sending the couple a wedding gift suit.
Special correspondence describes Place de la Concorde as the largest, fairest square in Paris with views toward the Tuileries, Louvre, and Champs Elysees. It notes the Seine, Arch of Triumph, and monuments to France’s eight prewar cities, plus wreaths for Strasbourg.
The Louis XV statue at the center was toppled by revolutionaries in 1795 and melted for cannon and coins. A clay Liberty effigy replaced it, Madame Roland spoke her last words near the knife, and the square later named Palace de la Concorde reflected France’s relief after terror. The area endured further upheavals with Prussian, Russian, English camps in 1814 and 1815, and German presence in 1871 as Paris remained a stage for unrest.
A crowd in Paris near the Eastern railway station witnessed thousands of large rats scurrying at night while cats fought them. Workers killed about eighteen thousand rats. none harmed people as the creatures fled into sewer openings.
After Kinley's nomination at the St. Louis convention, an old schoolmate consoles Thomas B. Reed for his defeat with the quip that Joe Manley deserves tar and feathers. Reed replies with a dry joke about wasting feathers, addressing a person named Lucy.
A pair of anecdotes describe instinct and cleverness in animals. Horses at a noon meal show greed and planning, scattering oats from a wheelbarrow and sharing a hidden private cache. The Mosquito Country tale recalls livestock seeking smoke to escape insects and standing with closed eyes as wind shifts.
A girl thanks a man for helping her off a trolley car in a respectful way that supports balance. She reveals she is engaged to another man named Jack, praising the escort as a rare gent.
In a tavern quarrel of memory two men discuss how physicians once believed bloodletting cured all ills. They note that bleeding was used for gunshot wounds and other conditions, while acknowledging modern knowledge reduces need for scalpel-based cures.
An elderly man known as Uncle Zeke on the West Side visits a northern state hotel and complains in the morning about loud cats. The landlord jokes that Zeke should have removed them while awake, to which Zeke replies he did not know they were there until morning.
The piece recalls a teetotaler query to Susan B Anthony who says she works for temperance but is not a bigot. It also cites a Robert Bonner anecdote about not calling himself a teetotaler after admitting a single glass of sherry in 1844 in New York.
A collection of whimsical questions by Edwin L. Sabin, exploring animal behavior, plant growth, weather, and natural phenomena with curious inquiry. The tone invites young readers to observe and wonder about everyday natural mysteries without requiring immediate explanations.
A historic remedy prescribes one tablespoon honey and vinegar with twenty four drops of aromatic ammonia, taken a teaspoonful every five minutes until relief. An ointment of honey and rye meal is noted as effective for carbuncles or boils.
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