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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1905
Page
2
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution presents a dialogue on heat and doom. The speaker laments relentless sun and fire with lines about dawn and warmth. Anne cries Hallelujah as a prophetic figure exits, claiming it’s hotter where he landed.
A penniless man, driven by love for his missing daughter Lulu, breaks a pawnbroker’s window to seize unredeemed jewelry. He is fatally wounded, clutching a cameo brooch with his child’s photo and murmuring Lulu’s name as he dies. The narrator, a reporter, uncovers the wife’s past and the couple’s broken life, but the story remains unpublished.
A London tailor recalls stable business under the king who praised his trousers and a knee fastening idea. After ruin struck, the king consoled him, ordered new work, and secured future royal and family patronage to help rebuild the shop.
A Lynn Massachusetts driven trend makes sandals the season's craze across the United States. From a Yankee drummer's observation of children on a ship to mass production in New England, sandals spread from kids to men and women coast to coast.
An elderly, churchless man complains of endless plates and double offerings. He visits a friend's church and experiences two collections, one for the local church and another for a small struggling church in Marshall, North Carolina. Brooklyn Engle notes the scene and the man pays up despite fate with a big F.
N J Neer, a railroad man, spent an hour in a station where he and a stranger exchanged secret glances. Each sketched the other, then Neer revealed a pad and announced he had sought a man homelier than himself. The stranger produced a second pad, matching the joke in the Chicago Record-Herald.
A young man catalogs a quest for tiny pins used to fasten ribbon, noting they are scarce in stores. He suggests buying large bolts of baby ribbon to obtain enough pins and asks readers for any information to ease the rare supply, hoping to write a chapter on this archival curiosity.
D. O. Mills of California-backed funding will finance the Lick Observatory expedition in Chile for five more years. Director William W. Campbell was informed of the plan, with Prof. William A Wright leading the party at San Cristobal near Santiago since 1903. The grant guarantees coverage of all expenses through 1910, allowing uninterrupted work in the southern hemisphere.
The Hawley library auction moved slowly for American literary rarities as Francis Wilson's Recollections of a Player with Autograph sold for 6.50 while a first edition of John Hay's Pike County Ballads brought just 60 cents, reflecting weak demand.
The Panama Canal will be a straight, 43 mile waterway 150 feet wide from Atlantic to Pacific. It is two-fifths dug and slated to take fifteen years with a $145 million cost and an army of at least 15,000 laborers. Locks will lift ships via water, with eight total. canals will be flooded for elevation changes. The project includes dams and reservoirs on the Chagres, electric power for locks and lighting, and basins at Colon and Panama with rail link to the canal. Transit time will be under a day and global commerce will gain immeasurably.
In an American Railway Congress display at Monument grounds Col Louis Ansley, treasurer of the Southern railway and a Presbyterian deacon from Alexandria, received a box of rubber poker chips. The exhibitor praised them as the latest game gadgets, joking they avoid police detection. The deacon, who had never handled a card, kept the chips for his grandson. Another note mentions Secretary Wilson aiding a poor man from Washington to Mississippi.
A New York merchant recalled late night noises in a five story store, tracing the supposed ghost to a rat dragging a bone down the stairs. The tale ends with the startled discovery and the quip that he has chased two or three ghosts in his time, all rats. The column continues with a Modern Estimate of books, praising the Bible, and notes relics of Capt. John Paul Jones in Washington.
Dr. Daniel Murphy archbishop of Hobart Tasmania, the last prelate appointed by Pope Gregory XVI., nears his ninety first birthday. Born in Cork during the Waterloo era, he was consecrated Indian bishop in 1846 and moved to Hobart in 1865. He survived the 1851 council that proclaimed the Immaculate Conception and served at the 1870 Vatican council defining papal infallibility.
The Earl of Caithness, a Scottish nobleman who owns Berriedale farm in North Dakota, forty eight years old and a bachelor, once tried to introduce Highland ways to local poor folk. Women opposed his methods and he did not attempt to force the den.
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