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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1905
Page
3
Dallas Lore Sharp writes of a swamp white oak described as ancient and immense. He contrasts it with a tulip poplar towering over 30 feet, praising the oak’s life, age, and stoic grandeur as a cathedral of nature. The piece reflects awe at longevity and natural majesty.
A curious Australian bushranger cry used to locate relatives is linked to a London sighting. A Bandarat-shaped robber once robbed a Ballarat bank of 30 000 dollars and fled, later spotted in London. A detective used a coo ee to recognize the man in the Strand and arrest him.
A compact meditation on how true achievement stems from clearly conceived purpose and steadfast persistence. The author argues that luck has no place and that fame follows inner strength, disciplined by courage through both good and evil, shaping lasting greatness.
The excerpt reflects on how taste is secondary to feeling in experiencing food. It discusses the allure of texture, warmth, and sensation in items like bread and potatoes, and contemplates the sensory impact beyond flavor. An aside recounts 19th century literary quarrels over poetry and publication.
Unclear OCR text fragment mentions whist origins and wine references but readable facts are limited. No coherent events, names, or dates emerge to form a solid news item.
The eighteenth century introduced whist in its primitive form focusing on tricks and high cards. Hoyle’s era refined strategy to consider all hands and card positions, while Boat trumps offered new tactical gains. By 1860 a Cambridge Little Whist school sparked a modern movement, with Pole’s 1864 theory finalizing the scientific approach.
Dr Max Hinhorn notes in Medical Record that Palovian ideas show mental state influences digestion. Delicacies spark gastric juice visually before tasting. Eating should be slow with thorough chewing and water with meals. rest after eating aids digestion.
Pearson's Weekly recounts Irish pilgrims risking their lives on the Skellig coast ten miles off Kerry. They traverse a 700 foot climb to St Fintan monastery, pass through the Needies Eye tunnel, crawl the Stone of Pain, ride the Spindle rock and finally reach St Michael's cross for the annual devotion.
A mother sends her twelve-year-old daughter to buy a ham and asks for one “off the same bog as the last two.” The butcher laments inconsistent ham quality while noting the recurring problem of hams turning tough and dry after a short spell of goodness.
The article notes ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Spaniards, and Britons brewing beer centuries before the Christian era. It mentions a fermented drink called ceria and references Tacitus describing beer as a staple around 100 A D, with Germans learning barley malt conversion. Six centuries later Charlemagne ordered the best brews to accompany his court.
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt describes a young woman running a spiders' school. She sells webs and live spiders to surgeons and instrument makers, and corrupt wine dealers place trained webs on bottles to age them. Six spiders a week can age a case of wine by about two years.
The Paisley thread house head recounts how cotton yarns were twisted to replace flax in sewing thread after Napoleon burned Hamburg stocks in 1803. James Clark invented modern spools, started small with sixpence per dozen, and offered spool refunds. Paisley ladies watched spooling, leading to a great industry.
A Maryland hunter recalls a day of fruitless gunning then buys a live rabbit from a boy and ties it to a bush to scare his family. He shoots the rabbit free when the bullet snaps the shoestring, leaving the animal alive and uninjured. The tale, published in the Baltimore American, blends humor with a cautionary note about deception.
The London Standard reports that sword stands were used in city churches as officials carried the city sword to church ceremonies. The sword was kept in a stand near the mayor’s pew during service, a practice common before the late 1600s and ending under Mayor Sir B N Fowler in 1883.
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