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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1903
Page
5
A East Coast tour group led by Prof. Marcus C S Noble visits Colorado's petrified forest. A guide dramatizes a scene where a hunter, eagle, and gun are instantly petrified by a falling wave of petrification, challenging gravity as a force.
The Ocean Monarch burned after leaving the Mersey and ran aground head to wind off the Welsh coast. An American clipper spotted the danger and Frederick Jerome, an able seaman, leaped aboard a burning deck and ferried 600 passengers and crew to safety despite his clothes catching fire multiple times.
The piece critiques efforts to reduce school hours and pressure citing the press and editors. It argues against harsh disciplinary methods and characterizes certain reforms as harmful to children. It notes widespread discussion across papers and editorials about this issue.
A mixed set of baseball items notes players and teams including Red Mack and Doggie Miller with ages and histories, scouting by George Huff, priesthood plans for James Barton, and various league movements. Mentions of Eddie Burrill, T Arthur, Philly losses, Corbett boxing, and Alma Michigan football ban.
A 1900s analysis shows Philadelphia pays visiting clubs 25 cents per spectator, with 10 percent league deduction. In other cities receipts from higher priced seats stay with the home team, while visiting clubs share only on a 50 cent basis. Example figures compare Athletics in Cleveland and Cleveland in Boston.
San Francisco reports Jim Jeffries will use a nonstop body assault against James Corbett in their forthcoming bout. Bob Fitzsimmons advised Jeffries to press from the start, hammer the midsection, and finish Corbett quickly with repeated blows.
The article outlines a two in three plan for the year’s harness meetings, predicting more races and more chances for horse owners. It notes potential disruption from early closing stake events and unclear wear on the band wagon.
Mrs. M. L. Babbitt of Bargerton Tennessee was dying from consumption despite doctors and remedies. A bottle of King’s New Discovery brought immediate relief and continued use cured her, with guarantee and trial bottles offered at Houseworth Bros. drug store.
The passage notes Luigi Arditi visiting Stratford on Avon with pupil Mme Valleria and her husband to view Shakespeare relics. An enthusiastic conductor exclaims that Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet reveal him as a librettist.
An advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a remedy for stomach and liver troubles. It claims they can relieve and cure ailments and notes availability at Houseworth Bros Drug Store for 25 cents.
The fragment describes a soft coal furnace named The Challenge. It mentions a model or type described as soft coal compatible with cozy or domestic use. No further specifics on warranty, maker, or location are provided.
The fragment recounts a woman famed for making simples and a grim story of a mysterious mark on her wrist that foretold family events. It notes her reputation, a chilblain plaster still sold, a tale of a salute, and then shifts to statistics on schoolchildren and per pupil expenditures with New York and other cities listed.
University of Melbourne graduates create chaos during a late degree conferment. They set off an alarm under the chancellor’s chair as the governor spoke, while celebrants heckled a couple receiving BSc with taunts and a chorus of whistles. A young woman barrister receiving LLB endured comments from the audience.
The eccentric writer Mme Marcelle Tinayre hid from the world after early success and advised another Paris social figure, Mdile Thouret, who once attempted to shoot Marcel Prevost. Tinayre warned that publishing his letters would have caused Paris to laugh at him.
A house cat leaped from the soda fountain to a cash register and struck the ninety cent key and the two dollar key, registering 2 90. The druggist noted the accidental tally and marveled at the chance撞 eyewit nesses. The store owner said he would watch the cat as a possible thief, given the incident.
A bald-headed man sits in a barbershop chair listening to a barber tout a tonic that promises hair growth. The barber jokes about using it on his own head while keeping a bald head as a before exhibit. His brother, the barber says, is the after using example, not present.
A dialect exchange shows Brother Williams choosing to climb a tree when faced with a mad bull and rheumatism. The scene uses humor to illustrate practical improvisation in danger.
A five year old girl at a Waterville church Sunday school spoke a playful verse during remarks time. She bowed at the altar and recited a jiggle tale about a wobbin and a worm, drawing laughter and applause before returning to her mother.
A 38 member utopian group in Ascona near Italy and Switzerland follows simple laws of nature, eats fruits and herbs with no meat, and wears one garment with no hats. They enjoy Wagnerian music, have sixteen women, and rely on land purchases funded by each new member for self support. The Belgian founder established the colony three years ago.
A Bayport Long Island bather arrived early in the season at a secluded spot when he started to bathe and hums a tune. An elderly woman seated nearby challenged his plan with a witty remark about equal access and privacy.
An English army officer bids farewell to an Irish attendant after a visit to Ireland. The attendant uses a blessing and a quip about a bald head. the officer replies that when the day of glory arrives there will be little left for a torchlight procession.
Dialogue captures a witty exchange where a guest asks about talents and the woman reveals her specialty is imitating the society young man. She explains she neither sings nor plays nor reads nor paints but sits around to look intelligent.
A brief moral about accepting the inevitable without struggle or murmur, urging calm endurance as a form of wisdom. The quote reflects classic stoic sentiment on bearing hardship with quiet resolve.
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