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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1903
Page
2
A young black-eyed boy, nine or ten, assists a pale foreign woman with a baby on a New York City elevated train. He calms her, helps her exit at the station, and carries the child, while the woman follows and the narrator notes the boy’s evident concern for the infant. The scene ends with observers praising the boy’s care.
The article describes Hockerball as a forthcoming parior game to rival ping pong. It suits summer or winter play and can be played by four to eight players sitting down. Each player has a personal court on a divided table with goals at each end and a neutral area to pass or shoot. Players use miniature hockey sticks in a table hockey style game.
Daniel Frohman and friends discuss theatrical matters when a stranger asks what a stage kiss is. A member replies that it resembles a kiss a wife gives a man after he loses his weekly wage at the races. The remark frames stage kissing as a joke about luck and marital gesture.
Fashion notes highlight grand fur muffs with tails and velvet rossettes, lavish loose sack coats in mole, seal, broadtail, chinchilla and sable, with sable as the leading fur for les dames elegantes. Silver and white fox boas remain popular and Russian coats with deep detachable basques and embroidery appear.
A New York Tribune item recalls District Attorney Jerome remarking that a notorious city politician would somehow profit even if stranded on a barren rock, illustrating his sharp practices and unavoidable sharp wit during a bar association discussion.
Superintendent W F Slaton of Georgia recounts his twelve year old grandson’s clever reply to a father scolding. The boy said he would be defeated as a whipping candidate, and he was. The anecdote, citing a New York Times source, illustrates quick wits in discipline.
Two Hinsdale young women dressed in male attire went out for a night of fun. They met athletic young ladies and planned a playful hoot at their expense with a throw.
In a peculiarly matched poker hand two players both claimed Queens and Nines as their two pair. They raised, called, and after revealing identical hands divided the pot. No suits determined priority, observers noted the odd occurrence.
A market scene depicts a Bread seller in a large basket crying for buyers and promising free bread while joking about earning the price of kouskous. The tale notes the silent stance on speaking of wives and a humorous glance at family pressure.
The speaker rebukes sorrowful men and hides from life’s burdens in dreamland. He recalls sorrows but prefers cheerful visions, storing memories of happiness like harvested wheat. When grief arises he escapes again to dreamland, finding life to be a song in memory. Boston Transcript.
The percussion mining method uses a large trepan to bore and grind rock into powder. Water in the shaft turns the mixture to pulp, brought to the surface in a sliding-bottom caisson. A steel tube refines the shaft and a relief shaft allows operation at depth. A newly found coal seam was struck at 32,319 feet in Kent, England.
French physicists introduce the lacto viscometer a tinned capped reservoir on a tripod with a fine glass outlet. When filled the stopcock is opened the escape time is recorded with temperature to identify milk character from a reference table.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes Mondays show the highest personal crisis reports. It humorously links chores like wash day and boiled dinners to bad starts, suggesting the clothesline and clothes pin as reporting cues and musing on blue Mondays and peculiar week starts.
The Planet Venus may be locked with one face toward the Sun, creating a perpetual hot sunny side and a frigid dark side. If true, life on Venus would differ drastically from Earth, with extreme temperature contrasts shaping its environment and potential biosphere.
A speaker reflects on the need for honest adult conversations about right and wrong. She notes that grown up talk can appear coarse to a child and stresses teaching boys and girls to assess people’s character and actions.
The article explains how modern mirrors use silver or tin amalgams to reflect light but absorb part of it. It notes that thicker glass yields stronger mirrors yet distorts image outlines, and that truly flat surfaces are possible only in small glasses, with larger ones failing to reflect a perfect image.
The text presents a garbled excerpt mixing Wordsworth with a poem about nature and modern life. It references sea and moon, wind, and a refrain about being out of tune with nature, ending with corrupted names and phrases.
A vessel in range records the time between wireless Hertzian signals and sound warnings from light houses. Repeating the observation over several miles allows distance measurement and triangulation to locate the lighthouse. A stopwatch converts readings to distances and a position finder aids the process.
An article notes speech can return after tongue removal with an English surgeon recounting a case from Practitioner. A former army surgeon had his entire tongue removed and months later spoke clearly, describing a notable episode from the Indian mutiny while aiding Sir Colin Campbell at Lucknow.
A French chemist argues the mortal body has no special prerogative to pride, calculating from human element content that the body amounts to what is in 1,200 eggs. It would yield iron for seven nails, fat for twelve candles, carbon for 65 gross pencils, phosphorus to tip 820000 matches, salt, sugar, water, and enough gas to lift a balloon.
A World article praises women for bravery in facing dangers linked to fashion. It notes fears about doctors, veils, and pneumonia, but asserts women persist in pursuing style and social progress despite warnings.
In Cripple Creek Cripple Creek prisoners Victor Poole and J Paul held in Camp Gold Field guardhouse, the Colorado Supreme Court issued writs of habeas corpus as Gov Peabodys martial law proclamation is challenged. District Judge Leeds ordered Poole freed, but military authorities ignore the order. Attorneys for the prisoners face perjury accusations by Attorney General Miller.
Georgetown Colorado December 17 examination of ventremen resumed to marshal a jury for fourteen union miners charged with complicity in the Sun and Moon mine explosion at Idaho Springs on July 28. The state plans to show an inner circle of the Western Federation of Miners masterminded the plot and that several miners will testify for the prosecution.
Governor Wells in Salt Lake City after talks with President Kramer declares the strike must end by strikers leaving the union and returning to work or departing the country. Troops will stay in the field while conditions persist and unions vow political retaliation.
Vienna December 17. Emperor Franz Josef told Austro Hungarian delegates that Austria Hungary and Russia are pressing Turkey to improve conditions for Christian subjects.
Vladivostock reports Admiral Alexieff, Russia Far East Viceroy, has postponed his visit to St. Petersburg until January because of local festivities.
In St. Petersburg on December 17 two female students both attending a women’s lectures course and enrolled at the gymnasium died by their own act. Investigations follow as authorities review circumstances of the deaths.
Berlin Dec 17 socialists in Russia protest harsh government methods by adopting terrorist tactics. a tendency is noted as being ignored by others in the movement.
Washington reports reveal two post office scandal reviews. The Bonaparte Conrad probe targets Heath and Beavers as principally responsible for improper appointments. It acknowledges legal limits on prosecutions but flags possible offenses within reach of law.
The article notes improper disbursements by former Auditor Castle and cites specific instances. It references postmasters in Washington who accepted transfers of employees without protest and mentions the late postmaster general’s tolerance of the practice as revealed in Mr. Merritt's June 29 letter.
London dispatch reports the Manchester cotton spinners cable to American spinners urging them to join a united movement to defeat cotton gambling.
In Madrid on December 18 a grand aristocratic cemetery was looted of marble bronze and jewels valued at 4 000 000 pesetas. The chaplain is under arrest.
Police in Vienna confiscated play bills for the Budapest operaetta Lysistrata showing a caricature of Emperor Josef. The seizure highlights censorship actions tied to foreign performances and royal imagery.
A New York report from December 18 notes protests by young men against employing women as ushers at the Majestic theater. The controversy over ushers sparks talk of a potential strike.
A disturbing report from Saginew Michigan details a son killing his father. The incident appears linked to claims of abuse and results in a fatal shooting. Police are investigating motives and collecting evidence while awaiting formal charges.
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