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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1901
Page
7
The poem recounts Maud Muller baking pies in a Calico dress as a farmer’s boy watches, a train arrival sparks a proposal, and she marries the wealthy suitor. The verse contrasts simple rural charm with upscale city life and reflects on enduring wholesome pies in modern times.
Grace Donnelly loves Phil Donnelly as Jack Purcel seeks Grace and a vow from Grace’s father to marry only if he can outplay him musically. Jack plans to enter the fairy cave at Slieve na Man for a legendary lead, while Phil’s vanity tests their romance and future.
An 1899 tale follows Jack Purcel from Mullinahone who travels to a fairy cave seeking a gift of music for his Grace. A bard grants him bagpipes after a heartfelt plea, and Purcel becomes Ireland’s celebrated piper, though reality and fantasy blur as he returns to his village.
The New York Post reports a curious art of metal plating insects and plants starting with a dampened specimen touched by a blowpipe then plated in an electrolytic bath. A Paris originator, M. Paul Despotte, showcased a gold mosquito and copper leaf, attracting amateurs despite limited trade use.
Observations on earthquake motion and laboratory tests on brick structures have yielded new rules and formulas for engineers and builders. Japan and other nations apply them widely to piers for bridges, tall chimneys, walls, homes, embankments, and reservoirs.
In Albany the court of appeals reverses a verdict against a street car conductor. Elwood W. Montgomery was removed after arguing to stand on the platform while seeking relief from a headache. The case began with Montgomery suing for damages and ended with a higher court upholding the conductor’s right to eject him.
An old Persian king’s letter to his son on polo advises avoiding chaotic rushes, limiting to eight horses, and passive observation from field ends. Omar Valis and Azhar Khar appear in a tale about risk and restraint, with the saying that polo should be played with dignity and safety in mind.
The Waterloo field is a public park with daily tours from Brussels by coach. A 200 foot high artificial mound centers the field, topped by a 28 ton bronze lion from captured French cannons. A proposed Napoleon monument depicts a broken winged eagle. Hastings battlefield features the Battle Abbey begun by William the Conqueror in 1094 and once housed by monks.
The Oxford estate, among England’s finest, was neglected by the late duke but has been restored by the present duke with funds from his wife, daughter of William E. Vanderbilt, per William E. Curtis of the Chicago Record.
Dr C T Williams spoke to the Life Assurance Medical Officers Association of England detailing mortality and life expectancy in Europe. Across 25 years, Norway 16.8 deaths per thousand, Hungary 35.4, with Austria 42.19 and Britain 42.10 years expected life at age 20.
Donald Coutts Gordon died in a Queensland hospital after an eventful life from Banffshire to Australia. He pegged a claim near Rockhampton but sold it for little, only for successors to sell the Mount Morgan mine for £875,000 with £5 000 900 in dividends. he died near the mine.
A Milwaukee Sentinel note reveals a boy brought home a library book titled The Cardinal's Snuff Fox and a message from his mother unreadily approving. The mother wrote she did not like the book and requested something with a good sad Christian teaching.
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