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Newspaper
Dillon Tribune
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1894
Page
3
A schoolroom anecdote recalls a reader of a famous poem where the boy stands on a burning deck. The examiner asks why he stood, and a clever pupil responds that it was too hot to sit. The moment highlights quick wit in Spare Moments.
A Boston Transcript verse extols a graceful Boston girl, praising her fencing skill and healthy glow as she trains in proper attire away from envious beaux. The playful poem highlights her broadsword readiness and shy blush beneath a mask.
Marcel, long rejected by the salon jury for five to six years, paints the Crossing of the Red Sea and endures constant tweaks and titles to dodge exclusion. Medicis, a bohemian Jew, buys the work for 150 francs plus a dinner, and the painting reemerges titled The Port of Marseille with a steamboat, hung as a favored sale in a Paris shop window.
The Philadelphia Record recalls how a noted lawyer credited relentless courtesy for his rise. A young man’s polite salute to a house scrubwoman led to a crucial tip. she referred a poor widow seeking legal help, making the attorney heir and trustee of a Delaware county estate and securing long-term income from managing the trust.
A woman instructs Bridget to seek a new residence by the month’s start. The dialogue references a Mr. Smith objecting to kitchen waste and a humorous plea to place Bill within an inch of life in a Brooklyn life scene.
A sequence of clipped dialogue and vignettes from the Detroit News Tribune and New York Weekly. The pieces feature a late night meeting between a young man and a woman, a clock, and a jokey exchange about buying a house and clothing on the installment plan, including insurance and burial costs.
A Maine farmer recounts surviving a deadly trolley near Boston by standing firm on the track. He says drivers yelled to move but refused to budge, claiming strength of will kept him safe as the trolley halted just inches away.
A jokey exchange shows an office boy boasting honesty and reluctance to steal. In a separate chat, the office boy warns of a delay as Mr Gayman heads to a lodge for business while Mrs Gayman hints at a private outing, described humorously as a goat ride or a lark.
A brief humorous exchange from the New York Sun about a girl testing a boy with fractions. The child reveals the boy claimed two half sisters to seem clever, but the mother and reader understand the math joke.
Humorous exchange describes a damp house as a grand drawback and a cautious agent asks if that counts as a disadvantage while noting a potential fire risk. The snippet hints at practical concerns in a real estate conversation.
A Dec 15 1891 mutiny on the French schooner Ninroahiti bound for Tahiti ended with the captain and English supercargo shot and most of the crew killed by poisoned food after brothers Joseph and Alexander Borique seized control renaming the vessel Le Roi and forcing island inhabitants to assist. The half caste cook survived and reported to authorities.
Boston Correspondent details a city supply kitchen offering cooked meats soups and staples at low rates. Prices include beef broth 18 cents per quart beef stew 12 cents vegetable soup 12 cents tomato soup 12 cents and more with several breads and prepared hashes as affordable options.
The Boston Transcript questions law and records showing 57 marriages of girls 17 or younger in the past year. It notes three 15 year olds and one 14 year old among the brides, including a grammar school pupil in short dresses. Boston women mobilize for child widows in India.
The Rev. T E Pandisu, a Hindoo turned Christian, seeks support in England for the outcast pariahs of southern India. Over 8,000,000 castemen are forbidden water drinking, forcing pariahs to travel far and drink dirty water. Dysentery and typhoid kill many. A London Letter notes the plight. A separate note says in Rider Haggard's novel a villain dies after 17 murders, seeking water in a volcano crater.
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