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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1902
Page
7
A Florida farmer aboard an accommodation train in St Lucie taunted Senator Quay about his Florida knowledge and faith healing claim. Quay replied with a solemn line on improving the inner man before the farmer dismissed him as a faith healer.
The New York Times reports a 5 cent bill of fare from a Bleecker Street saloon offering one cup of coffee and bread with whisky for 6 cents and one glass of beer or whisky with bread and sausage for 5 cents. Patrons may stay for a reasonable time after purchase and supervision prohibits loafing.
Louisville Ky based General Basil Duke is described as very absentminded and frequently walks while mumbling about a range of topics. The snippet portrays a humorous sketch of the beleaguered figure and his wandering thoughts.
A streetcar scene shows General Duke, in a moment of reverie, failing to recognize his wife and then, after a civil engineer son returns to Louisville, seizing his hand and greeting him warmly. Laughter from friends aboard awakens the general to his surroundings.
Constantinople woke to excitement when the British embassy flag staff showed three ensigns stacked. Rumors flew from peace in the Transvaal to an attack by gunboats. Officials learned a zealous servant dried damp flags by hanging them, causing the spectacle.
The sultan of Turkey relied on a Greek astrologer named Kumbara at Abdul Hamid's court. He proposed a modern astronomical observatory at Yildiz kiosk but could not operate the instruments. A professional Naples astronomer was later summoned to explain them.
Dinkelspiel reviews Charles M. Schwab's burlesque romance Dit He Break Id or Only Bend Id? and Der Bad Break ad der Bank of Monte Carlo. The piece lampoons modern realism replacing stage melodrama with casino temptations and greed, highlighting the perils of rich men and a press agent's antics.
The piece imitates a burst of derisive chatter about gambling and a Wall Street panic. It recalls Monte Carlo trappings as a bank heist and funds vanish. It notes stock declines tied to a dramatic newspaper image and French cashiers shipping francs to a trunk.
Dr A L Wood spoke on The Influence of Water Upon Health and Longevity at 128 East Twenty eighth street. He claimed daily distilled water intake of about a gallon improved strength and flexibility at age sixty two and urged distillation as the only safe method to purify drinking water, arguing boiling and simple filtration fail.
Charles R. Dow spoke at the ninth annual Manufacturers' association of New York banquet in Brooklyn. He predicted rapid advances in wireless telegraphy, including dispatches to ships at sea, ship collision warnings, safer rail travel, wireless army and navy orders, and instant bulletin capability across cities.
Rev. H Bishop Leech of First Methodist Episcopal Church Hackensack New Jersey revealed he learned cornet fifteen years ago and then played hymns from the pulpit. The pastor previously entertained with an electric fan behind the pulpit and palm leaf fans for the congregation last summer.
A Washington man claims a new machine can produce railroad ties from straw, the cheapest material, offering elastic but firm sleepers. He argues 20 million ties are needed in the U S and wood has been the only option due to elasticity limits of iron and stone. The Washington Post notes these “straw ties” would be produced by a secret cheap process.
Darazon, a poor cobbler from Auvergne, carves wooden sabots for Marie Antoinette with the letters T T L V meaning I will love you all my life. Lafayette delivers them to Versailles, the queen is touched, then the Revolution destroys the dream as Darazon travels to Paris and dies after being mistaken for an aristocrat.
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