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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1905
Page
3
A gloomy pessimist walks a dreary path noting only gloom and bitterness. He ignores blooms and laughs, scanning puddles for skies and smells doom in every detail. Even joyous moments turn sour as he clings to sorrow and foresees sorrow in happiness.
A prairie wagon encounters a grim kidnapping at dusk as Jim Williams is surrounded by six cowboys led by Hank. Williams pleads for mercy to save Nell and their baby, but is forced to choose between resignation and death. In a final twist Hank reveals Williams stole the boss and plans to pay later.
In a tense frontier moment Hank abandons a hangin g plan after a council among men. Williams, shaken, shows emotion as the group disbands and Hank swears. The scene ends with Williams returning to Nell and the child with a pail from the brook.
A narrator recalls a prankish exchange with a caller who suspects a Lake District fishing trip. The wife counters with actual catches, but the husband explains people trust his word for a thousand dollars, preferring belief over boasting.
A Maine farmer Seth Rogers once warned neighbors about overworking his spare horse. Joe Clark asked to borrow it for a warm day to keep pace with a funeral procession heading to Veazie, saying he must keep up with the march even if the horse cannot.
A short piece cites Sarah Bernhardt arguing that success comes from steady work rather than talk. It notes how the artist, homemaker, and professional woman achieve by persistent toil, loving their craft, and not seeking others’ approval. The quote frames success as the result of patient, year after year effort.
Poem envisions labor dawn and a world where toil rules with peace. Imagery contrasts dark night and rising light on a mountain, with lightning and thunder awakening valleys. Final lines plead for love, labor, and mercy, expressing hope for a just, peaceful earth.
In Peru Massachusetts ten miles from Pittsfield farmers trade butter and eggs for goods at Frank Creamer’s store. Mrs Ackert brings butter claiming it weighs a pound but the shopkeeper notes it weighs less. She says she weighed it by a pound of soap bought there.
During the first six months of the year Key West shipped about 15 million cigars to the North. Porto Rico sent roughly 40 million cigars into the United States. Cuba contributed about 25 million cigars in the same period.
A historical overview traces Thanksgiving from 1621 Pilgrim feast to a recommendation by Congress during the Revolutionary War. It quotes the first congressional prayer asking for divine guidance, justice, and peace, as published in the Los Angeles Times.
The article recalls a typical Thanksgiving dinner in Dixie with gumbo soup roast pig and candied yams alongside Virginia batter bread creamed potatoes and pecan caramel cake. A parallel New England menu features clam bouillon venison pasty roast turkey and pumpkin pie among other dishes.
A guide suggests festive centerpieces using wheat arranged as a small sheaf, with yellow accents in bonbons candles and shades. Tiny turkey favors with guest names on yellow ribbons adorn each cover, while sherbet cups shaped like John Alden hats evoke the colonial theme. turkeys vary from cheap to decorative paperweights.
The article recalls Americans abroad observing Thanksgiving in the Philippines Alaska Puerto Rico Panama and other places in a ritual echoing early New England days with divine service and rifles ready for potential attacks. It notes warm tropical weather replacing snow and cold seas with tranquil blue waters as a contrast to the Puritan scene.
Dr Oliver Crook Haugh of Ohio faces arraignment in Dayton on charges of killing several relatives and others. Alleged victims include his father Jacob Haugh mother Mary Frances Haugh brother Jesse Haugh a Lima woman in 1904 and John Paris of Lorain among others.
Le Petit Parisien reports former Austrian Major General Leopold of Austria now serves as a private in a Geneva Swiss regiment. He performs duties like scrubbing barracks and sweeping yards, endures daily drills, and recently faced a four day arrest that was not enforced after explanations.
Dr. John William Burgess of Columbia University has been chosen to teach American history in Berlin. He will hold the Theodore Roosevelt chair at Berlin University funded by a $50,000 endowment from Jacob Speyer of New York.
The piece notes federal courts have invalidated Edison patents as obvious improvements. Edison contemplates a new mechanism and quips that only a committee of federal judges could explain the obviousness. He jokes his work remains hungry while claiming the solution seems perfectly obvious.
A group of microbes debate a scientist's finding that kissing drives their multiplication. A young microbe urges alarm, but an elder insists the growth rate will remain steady despite the discovery.
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