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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1905
Page
3
A poetic lament from James O. Kinshlia in the Chicago Post Office registry page mourns a lovers’ farewell. It contrasts past gaiety with present sorrow, recounting fading joy, failed vows, and the impossibility of rekindling a now-dimined passion as time ends the “tawdry play.”
Thomas F. Millard in Scribner's extols the Russian soldier Ivan as loyal, uncomplaining, and devoutly religious. The piece notes his limited training in modern tactics, reliance on officers, poor equipment, inadequate rations, and slow clothing improvements amid the war with Japan.
The New Orleans Times Democrat quotes an observer noting Japanese rice growers need special training for handling the American mule. The piece uses humor to compare mules and people, recounting a hardheaded Negro and mule clash where both were knocked unconscious by a head blow before becoming friends.
Thomas B. Millard argues that the United States produces superior officers due to a large educated population, selective West Point admissions, and rigorous training. He notes Russia cannot match such officer quality with its vast army and limited education, asserting the U S army is better officered than any in the world.
A new perpetual clock concept uses a metal vessel filled with liquids and gases that expand and contract with air changes. Patented by Weston M. Fulton, it will be mass produced in Knoxville Tennessee under weather bureau and University of Virginia connections. The device stores movement via a spring and runs without winding though may require minor adjustment.
A correspondent depicts life in the tropics with palm shaded streets, market chatter, and bustling cafes. Images of a lazy south, cheerful crowds, and a lingering dreamlike mood color daily scenes including children with sugar cane and a narrator recalling a black boy named Domingo in past travels.
After guiding the treaty to Colon a steel box and two keys ensure secure handoff. The City of Washington steamer aided in the crisis saving over a hundred women and children in Havana harbor and later faced stampede danger among the Afro Caribbean camp as a weapon misfire sparked a rush for safety.
The article describes a French method to make cotton from fir tree cellulose. Fibers are pulverized, steamed with bisulphate of soda for 36 hours, washed, bleached, dried, re heated with chloride of zinc and acid, with castor oil added, then drawn to produce a thread closely resembling cotton.
The London Illustrated News reports a bullet proof motor ambulance tested on November 24 in England. Major Palliser designed armor that folds like wings to protect surgeons, enabling rapid, safe field surgery with a Union Electric lamp providing shadowless light.
A collage of aphorisms on money marriage and society contrasts old time virtues with modern habits. It playfully notes inherited wealth limits indulgence, cooking skills versus appetite, and the shift from cosmetics to practical flour as a sign of better prospects for a young man.
A witty society note argues that a soft heart and head define a gentle person. It mocks the idea of men controlling wives as bluff or bully. The piece muses on love in marriage and the game of hearts where diamonds often trump.
An old bachelor quips that even as a man pays his wife's bills she should at least pay his socks. He laments that a woman seeks the cream from kindness and that nine tailors may make a man but one Christmas breaks him. A woman’s joy in shopping stems from hope of a good in store.
We seek a wide awake local man to promote Wheeler and Wilson sewing machines. This opportunity offers strong incentives for someone with horse and wagon to devote time to advancing sales. The firm cites fifty eight years of success and calls the proposition a money maker with potential to grow into a permanent business.
The piece lists lavish hotel expenditures including a seven million dollar cost for one hotel, a royal suite at seventy five thousand, air filtration at three hundred thousand, a tulip wood bed and matching piano at ten thousand each, solid silver bathroom fittings at twelve hundred per unit, and door-knock value at ten dollars, with flowers costing at least five hundred daily.
The Rev. Michael King a pioneer priest in Oakland California who served more than fifty years in the city died there recently at the age of seventy five.
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