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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1905
Page
2
An archival fragment recalls a dramatic poem praising a blaze and its dark dawn. The speaker laments enduring heat and smoke while foretelling a reckoning beyond. Readers are urged to glimpse a fiery transformation and a grand, uncertain afterlife.
An old time report notes sandals becoming the fashion in the early twentieth century. A Lynn Massachusetts factory and other New England shops produced over a million pairs for summer trade as sandals spread from children to adults across the country. A traveling salesman conceived the idea after seeing children on a ship wearing leather bound to their feet. He promoted samples back home and the trend expanded beyond kids to all ages.
A reporter recalls witnessing a desperate man smash a pawnshop window to reclaim a lost photo brooch of his dead daughter Lulu. He dies from blood loss, the brooch is returned to the pawnbroker, and the tale of deceit, heartbreak, and a vanished family remains unprinted and unsaid.
A Queensland observation reports green ants that nest with leaves and flowers and reportedly force spiders to spin silk for them. A described device uses a frame with twenty four miniature guillotines to hold spiders while threads are drawn from them, resembling a potential human invention.
A London tailor recalls how King Sympathized With him during misfortune. The king praised his work, placed an order, and ensured royal and family members also gave him work, though the tailor faced ruin before a sudden recovery.
Overview of a proposed Panama Canal spanning forty three miles with a 150 foot wide electric illuminated waterway. Two fifths dug with plans for fifteen years and about 145 million dollars. Locks, dams, reservoirs and an adjacent railroad linked to Colon and Panama.
An elderly reader laments frequent double collections as fate. He visits a friend's church where, for the first time, two collections are taken: the usual plate and a second plate for a struggling church in Marshall, North Carolina. The piece ends noting the old man pays up despite his misgivings.
N J Neer, a noted railroad man, spent an hour awaiting a train in a station when a stranger sat opposite him. Both quietly studied each other with pencils and pads, then Neer revealed a drawing to his companion and learned the stranger had likewise promised his wife a portrait if he found someone homelier.
A young man caring for his ward robe seeks tiny pins used to fasten ribbon and other items on bolts. He has exhausted big and small stores, finding none. He recalls seeing them only in ribbon or skirt binding and muses about buying many bolts of baby ribbon to obtain a supply, requesting information to avoid the expense.
Col Louis Ansley treasurer of the Southern railway amused and surprised at a rubber poker chips exhibit during the American Railway Congress on Monument grounds. A dealer offered chips claiming they were the latest item and infractions would be unseen, prompting a light-hearted box handoff to the Alexandria, Virginia deacon and Presbyterian church member.
Secretary Wilson of the board of charities eight months ago took a poor half demented colored man from Washington to relatives in Mississippi. The other day Secretary Wilson re acted?
D O Mills finances continue support for the D O Mills expedition led by Prof William A Wright at San Cristobal near Santiago. The gift to Director William W Campbell guarantees funds to sustain uninterrupted work through 1910, covering all expedition expenses.
A detailed description explains the canal’s twin locks, rise and fall of water levels, and the 68 foot maximum canal bottom above the ocean. It notes the Chagres river valley site, a great dam at Hohio to store flood waters, and a vast Chagres lake formed by the structure. The piece mentions engineering skill and flood control as central to the project.
The auction of late Senator Hawley’s library produced surprising results. Francis Wilson’s Recollections of a Player with autograph sold for 650 dollars, while a first edition of John Hay’s Pike County Ballads drew only 60 cents.
An old New York merchant recounts a midnight noise tale. After fearing a ghost, he discovers a gray rat dragging a bone down five flights, explaining the eerie sounds with a mundane but vivid image of the animal. The witness recalls, I have run down ghosts in my time, and every one was a rat.
A discussion among actors and letters at the Players Club features Oliver Herford naming the Bible as his best book and the worst. He cites the Bible as the greatest comprehensive guide to New York and as an influence surpassing Shakespeare and Homer, even quipping that Mark Twain would have been Saint Mark.
In the National Museum Washington three relics honor Capt John Paul Jones the naval hero. A flag from the Bon Homme Richard a flintlock musket and a cutlass captured from the Serapis form the display. The sixteen foot flag bore twelve white stars and four red and four white stripes.
Dr Daniel Murphy archbishop of Hobart Tasmania turns ninety one tomorrow. Born in Cork during the Waterloo battle, he was consecrated an Indian bishop in 1846 and translated to Hobart in 1865. He survives the 1851 Vatican council that proclaimed the Immaculate Conception and was a member of the 1870 council defining papal infallibility.
Ezil le, a 48 year old bachelor from Berriedale farm North Dakota, faced opposition after attempting to introduce Highland dress to the local poor. The effort met with little support from women who rejected the proposal.
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