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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1897
Page
2
In 1838 Manchester attorney Mr Thomas hears a client seek divorce from a bricklayer who lived as a man for years. The tale traces a hidden gender history of disguised women and male roles, including a prominent professional man believed dead after a secret revealed.
A Parisian traveling from Havre befriends a young man who plans a joke by swapping a bag to the next compartment. The nephew-like thief escapes with several thousand francs as the bag owner discovers the ruse and protests that he has no nephew.
The Chicago Times Herald describes oatmeal and Indian meal gruels for invalids. Oatmeal gruel uses boiling water with sifted oats, simmered two hours, salted and sweetened, strained, served with a spoonful of cream. Indian meal gruel mixes meal with flour, water, and salt, cooks two hours, with a dash of sugar and nutmeg, then served with cream.
Private secretary Man de Ville Phillips recalls two anecdotes about the late archbishop of Canterbury. The first involves a coachman who answers a clergyman about duties with wit after the appointment of Edward Parry as bishop suffragan of Dover. The second features a coachman remarking on church attendance to a neighborhood resident.
A New York Sun piece depicts a beggar pressured for coins then gains a brief smile when offered two cents. The man pockets coins and jokes about the situation, calling the beggar brick as the mood shifts.
The article describes how needles are created by dedicated machines. A mechanism cuts rough steel wire to length, files the point, flattens the head, pierces the eye, sharpens, and polishes each needle. A separate machine counts and counts and packs needles into sale papers and folds the papers.
A white plaintiff sued a black man in Natal and during the trial the case reached an amicable settlement. The judge asked for a written agreement and the counsel replied they had it in black and white, prompting the question what more was needed. The note then notes Bank of England note freshness and a conversion fact about area.
Edward W. Bok surveys Sunday school libraries in The Ladies Home Journal and condemns the “wishy wash y” books. He blames denominational Boards and cheap buys, urges women be allowed to select the titles, and argues a hundred good books are better than five hundred indifferent ones.
General Grant visits a field house to draft dispatches while wounded Confederate lieutenant sits in the chair offering his seat. The officer, bleeding and grim, jokes he hopes to return home to see his girl, prompting Grant to arrange care.
A historical overview of tapestry and velvet carpet printing tracing to John Bright of Rochdale. It contrasts Brights block and hand stamping methods with John Crossley & Sons color printing on the warp, noting durability, cost, and registration issues. Cylinder printing later improved transfer accuracy, guided by a full color design.
A London Telegraph note recalls Captain Bliss a strict disciplinarian who rules shipboard with exacting laws. In a port dinner he assigns sailors as stewards. A lady asks for bread, but the crewman cannot assist, replying he is told off for taters, underscoring rigid service and limited provisions.
Captain Nelson stood on the quarter deck during the Copenhagen engagement as the mainmast shed splinters. He told a comrade it was warm work and he would not be elsewhere to thousands, a remark quoted by Colonel Stewart and cited by Captain Mahan in The Century. He rebuked a lieutenant for an unwelcome report, stressing discipline over premature despair.
A 19th century note cites Prof Max Weber of Amsterdam asserting humans have the largest brain weight after elephants and whales, but ranking lower in brain to body size ratio. It argues mental superiority comes from brain organization, not size, and muses on human memory of experiences versus recounting them to others.
The text notes that Darwin and Tyndall demonstrated the air is literally full of plant germs and seeds, confirming long-held suspicions of naturalists about airborne flora.
A 20 arch bridge over the Torridge near Biddeford uses live mussels to fill gaps in repairs as the rapid tides wash away mortar. Boats collect mussels and workers thread them to the stonework, a method protected by legal penalties for removal without consent.
A young contralto at a Handel concert conducted by Sir Joseph Barnby attempted a high note over the usual ending. Barnby challenged the improv, humorously remarking he hopes she won’t show her knees, highlighting the clash over artistic liberty.
A commercial man notes that all posters are ready while the artist explains three display systems the opium lobster and ice cream supper and the Welsh rabbit approach. The brief exchange ends with a question about choices.
Jessie Ackerman describes a northern Iceland church visit from the Three Women In Iceland series. The account covers pre service arrivals, rural salutations among men, a clerical procession in silk and velvet, tall candles at the altar, and late return home after worship.
In this Detroit Free Press excerpt a squire doubts Hank Stuffer’s integrity while neighbors monitor him after a series of stolen goods. Farmer Waddy warns of hidden rot beneath seeming trust as suspicion swirls around Hank and a hermitage thief.
A New York Sun reminiscence recalls hard tack, the stale bread rarely rejected, and the army’s mixed hunger. Soldiers endured hard bread, sometimes moldy, yet outdoor life kept appetites decent with coffee.
A dinner party scene features Mr Bluff declaring each man should be master of his own house. The guests consider adjournment to the library for a smoke, but one quips that Mrs Bluff won't allow it, prompting a light exchange.
In a Chicago Olio event, Uncle Allen urged tears only after sending food and clothing to the destitute. He emphasized practical aid first and growth of charitable impulse from action.
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