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Newspaper
Chehalis Bee
Location
Chehalis, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1898
Page
9
A fragment from a New York Sun item notes a brisk wedding mood as a man pursues a hurried train while a woman enters a new life. It hints at social aims and the cost of fashion with skepticism about a good match and financial expectations surrounding marriage.
A veteran recalls the Gravelotte battle, Leon St Paul, Marie Emmanuel, and Cambert in a tale of hunter chocolate courage. Bearded rivalry, a beardless youth, a battlefield wound, and a surgeon’s grave mercy frame this veteran’s recollection from 1860s France. The tale ends with Cambert’s later life and a daughter “very like Marie Emmanuel.”
A young man in a Pearson's Weekly vignette feels unworthy as his beloved promises to share his fate. He contemplates his good fortune and asks how such a bright angel could fall for a dull, stupid fellow, while she muses I must have a screw loose somewhere.
The article explains selecting oranges by weight and skin thickness, noting heavier fruit is juicier with thin skins while thick skinned ones are drier. It defines kid glove mandarins and tangerines from Florida stocks, and contrasts Florida fruit with Jamaica and Harapan orange varieties in color and juice quality.
London attire consumes over 11 million yards of tweed annually for male garments. The figure highlights the city’s fabric demand and fashion habits in classic period reporting.
A romantic poem by Emma Alice Brown from the New York Ledger evokes moonlit nights. The speaker pleads for a loved one named Nita, comparing lilies roses and woodbine, and longs for a dream doorway to meet her beyond crystal slumber. The piece blends nocturnal imagery with a plea for return.
An Nebraskan recalls how Buffalo Bill Cody earned his nickname as a buffalo killer while a government scout. He later financed and organized the 1881 North Platte Fourth of July wild west show with Kieth, recruiting cowboys and Indians, attracting large crowds, and launching Cody’s show business success.
In Massachusetts an agricultural society hosts its annual session where Hamlin Garland, a farmer and aspiring writer, is urged to speak. Garland acknowledges his farming life and explains he is pursuing literary work to earn money to pay his workers.
In a courtroom exchange a lawyer asks where a man was stabbed and a physician describes the wound as an inch and a half to the left of the midline and about an inch above the navel. The dialogue references the Bank of England employing about 11,000 staff with pensions totaling roughly 1.5 million dollars per year.
A note describes koumiss made from mare’s milk stored in smoked leather bottles. It mentions the next transit of Venus, scheduled for 2004.
In camp at Lower Ceyser basin Sergeant Chris Burns recalls a kitten that defended its turf from a lumbering black bear. The bear retreated up a tree after the feline hissed and pounced, while the kitten guarded the bear until it could escape. The incident amused soldiers who witnessed the odd a braw.
The Philadelphia Times explains pearl nomenclature by size from paragon to dust, noting names for shapes and quality. Values depend on quality and color with paragon and cherry pearls sold separately. small dust pearls average about 6000 per troy ounce, while a one ounce paragon could fetch 30900 to 200000 dollars.
James B. Carrington explains moonlit photos often rely on sun photography with two exposures. He notes amateurs mistake moonlight as sole illumination and describes combining a brief daylight exposure for structure with a longer after dark shot to reveal gas and electric lights along streets and parks.
Senator Hoar recalled a Worcester boys catechism with questions on hell and its inhabitants. The article also notes a claim that petroleum or rock oil has therapeutic value in chronic bronchial and pulmonary disorders.
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