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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1902
Page
3
The London Chronicle recounts an interview describing a farewell exchange with M Worth. The piece lampoons poetic diction as the writer expands vocabulary and notes Worth's remarks on gardens, meadows, grass, poultry, and cows. The tone mixes whimsy with literary critique as the two part ways at vesper bells.
Henry Wilton, a steady Chicago businessman, proposes to Mary Beck after five years of devotion. Mary embarks on a world journey with the Rooks, writes a timely letter, and fate trails them across oceans. A mistaken chase ends with Mary and Wilton reuniting in Chicago and planning a quiet marriage before a honeymoon to New York and Japan.
A description contrasts draughtsmen drawing with ordinary tools to how some figures cannot be drawn accurately in the tray, causing flaws. It notes easy rendering of straight lines and simple curves, implying a tool to improve fidelity may be needed for complex shapes.
An inventor presents an instrument akin to a common rule that can adapt to any figure to be drawn. By shaping it to the desired curve the artist can reproduce even the most discuit forms with accurate measurements.
Anniral George Dewey says coffee was the fleet’s strongest stimulant on that famous May morning in 1898. He recalls handing the hot tea eye-opener to the Spaniards as part of a playful reminiscence reported by the St Paul Globe.
A tree climber gathers chicle in Yucatan where the Ya tree produces sap that boils into large sampa for chewing gum. About six pounds per tree yield, with total regional production near one million pounds mainly exported to the United States. The Ya tree grows seven feet tall with russet apple like fruit, and the finest gum costs $1 per pound but remains largely inland.
Near Tia Juana in old Mexico a curious 60 foot well uses a tree with two upper branches forming a natural support. A crossbar and a long rope with a weighted end let the bucket be lowered and raised, illustrating primitive ingenuity in a rural water device.
A new tool uses a clamp to move bricks easily within building sites to save time. A tree in Ashanti resembles the English oak and yields an excellent vegetable butter that remains good year round despite heat.
The Pilaga people, an offshoot of the Toba in Paraguay, bore their ears and insert carved wooden pegs called hobo. These cylindrical pegs are costly, typically seven centimeters across and two to three centimeters thick, showcasing striking ear adornment.
The passage notes grotesque ornaments attached to a beg by black wax, described as heavy and causing cars to lengthen over years, sometimes reaching shoulder height. It mentions plates of silver or lead, round sea shells, and other fragments as decorative elements.
A Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post excerpt recalls Richard Harding Davis observing an Italian fish dealer and his wife near Fulton Market in New York. Davis loudly orders the husband to carry the basket, insisting that in America women should not shoulder such work, prompting a tense standoff before the husband relents and the wife walks beside him.
The Globe-Democrat extols American troops for humane conduct in the Philippines and rebukes slanders from critics like Edward Atkinson. It defends the Senate Philippine commission's actions and reassures soldiers 7,000 miles away of public support and admiration amid hostile chatter.
The Glasgow Times reports a Gibraltar style exchange where two caddies discuss a ministerial golfer. One quips about the minister's skill while the other mocks his play and his reaction after missing a ball, capturing local golf club banter.
The world's largest cemetery is said to lie at Rockwood in Australia, spanning 2000 acres with only 200 acres used so far. About 100000 people of all nationalities are buried there, per CENTRAL N.U. freee NO. 11-02.
The article surveys Chinese weapons shown in a Philadelphia Commercial Museum collection and found in Chinatown bric a brac shops. It argues many items are agricultural tools repurposed as offensive weapons and notes Manchu conquests, official insignia, and guards using primitive arms in temples and among captives.
An ante revolutionary letter attributed to George Washington is connected to the Wills firm at Bristol. The correspondence dated November 25 1759 describes plans to ship fifty hogsheads of tobacco and possibly more, with remarks on shipment arrangements and sailing.
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