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Newspaper
Fremont Democrat
Location
Hamburg, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1901
Page
4
A fragmentary verse expresses a longing tied to Dunvegan and the Skye hills. The speaker laments a constant return of heartache, with coastal storm imagery framing emotional turmoil.
Amid rising floodwaters a young enslaved boy acts to seal a widening levee breach on a plantation opposite Shreveport. He uses sand and earth to block a crevice, risking exposure and exhaustion to save the plantation’s cotton as waters roar and darkening dusk falls.
In the face of a breaking levee and rising flood waters, Pete the boy warns of the danger and helps guide boats to avert disaster. Mr. Aiken, after aiding Pete, carries him to safety and later rewards the boy’s courage as Pete assists operations at the plantation.
May Irwin says she is more successful as a cook than as an actress during her summer rest at her Thousand Islands home. She compares a recipe to a play, noting she adjusts elements after testing on friends and dogs and buys every cookbook she can find to improve her hot dishes.
Erie railroad President F D Underwood recalls an engineer who threatened to cut a deaf old woman’s legs to stop her from walking on tracks. The woman used a shortcut to a summer hotel to sell baskets and embroidery and refused to stop. She was eventually run over, and the engineer tearfully reported, I’ve got the old lady at last.
A Philadelphia Record note describes a Roxborough grocer's bay horse with a unique ten inch white forehead mark resembling a closed umbrella. When wet in rain the hairs part and the umbrella appears opened, with the ferrule and handle switching roles. the grocer boasts of the animal's remarkable, weather dependent, umbrella-like mark.
A shy damsel who accompanied a youth to a restaurant orders nearly the entire menu except bread and butter. She then tells him she is not hungry, prompting the man to wonder if it is a bet. The scene unfolds with a feeble laugh and a whispered question.
John Davis collapsed on Wheeling streets and was pronounced dead by two doctors and a coroner's jury finding heart failure. He was moved to the undertaker and ten minutes later sat up and sang the Doxology. He was later fined five dollars for drunkenness, while doctors and jurors avoided trial.
Explorers report in Tibet a vast saline basin linked to Sven Hedin's expedition findings. Researchers note extensive dead-waving formations and crystal-like deposits forming a single immense saline sea. Scientists speculate on geologic origins and potential for future study.
A tongue in cheek riff on place names from Lippincott's praising native or better sounding terms. Maurice Thompson mocks terms like Thrasher for a mountain thrash and Great Hogback mountain while praising Indian names and southern diction as more musical.
A Scotland Yard official estimates about 20 000 people of all classes go missing in London yearly. About 3 000 are accounted for via bodies found or known as wanted. He notes 17 000 remain, likely living under assumed names in various walks of life, effectively a town within London.
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