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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1905
Page
3
A collage of verses and anecdotes describes a mountain brook turning a mill, dancing with children, and aiding a fisher before joining the sea. It then offers a money making nugget on becoming the neighborhood mender with cement glue and cards, followed by a light tale of a donkey and rat pest control with a clever box trap and a cat and dog, highlighting ingenuity.
The entry explains how jackknife derives from terms like Jacques and jack-lord reflecting youth and servitude. It surveys jack as a generic boyish label across phrases and notes the jackknife as a premier toy for children, mentioning bone skates as a primitive delight.
Six common two syllable words are clued by pictures. Each word’s final syllable is shown by the hint. Correct guesses placed by number reveal initials spelling the best time to eat nuts.
A hungry donkey finds an open orchard gate and feasts on apples, earning a harsh whipping from his master. The following year the punished tree yields double the apples, teaching the farmer a lesson about underestimating the creature. The donkey’s virtue and folly echo through this fable style tale.
A young American navy lieutenant tries to explain a breech mechanism to landsmen aboard a harbor ship. A volunteer brigade member claims he invented a new range finding device and corrects the officer, revealing the device had only recently been installed.
In a gloomy cave the flittermice hang head down through winter. Spring sun forces their awakening and flight to life. A big fellow darts over the brook chasing gnats in a lively, vivid scene.
The text playfully notes the return of bats after winter, saying they emerge only when winter is ended. Mrs Flittermouse is depicted as a model mother who carries all her young, telling them to "hook on" as she sets off to seek breakfast.
A fragment from a playground guide describes an outdoor game with two captains, one Turkish and one Greek. Players pass under an arch, then are trapped by chosen captains, asked to pick sides, and finally engage in a quick tug of war to decide the winner. It also notes stilts as a summer activity and the Japs as enthusiastic stilters using bamboo stilts and backward-projected foot blocks.
A humorous account details a hobble-hoop race where each racer uses a hoop tied to both ankles and must move along a 50 foot course without touching the ground with hands outside the hoop. Competitors crawl on hands inside the hoop, producing entertaining, bow-legged antics for spectators.
A Milwaukee millionaire boasts a hobby of collecting buttons and buttonholes. He explains the invention and spread of buttons, with elegant Chinese mandarin insignia on caps. Chinese officials’ rank buttons range from ninth to first with birds on each coat.
Recreation notes explorer Andrew J. Stone adds unknown creatures to the American Museum of Natural History collection after a successful hunt described by B. H. Brown. The account evokes glacier breath and an orphan lamb, promising further finds in unnamed mountains where white men have not tread, with the ibex possibly alive.
A writer notes that rabies is rare and bites should be cleaned promptly. Wash the wound under water, apply a bicarbonate paste and cloth bandage, and rewash if the dressing dries, noting such bites are common and not to fear hidrphobia.
Ruins unearthed near Gourgom Meude reveal a buried Roman city Veyrune dating to the third century. The find sits near the Du Guesclin burial site and includes a silver urn with many near mint Roman coins bearing Empress Julia and several emperors.
A rumor in New York links George Gould to a top tier racing stable. James W. Cooley has bought ten yearlings and is said to represent Gould, aiming to field a first class stable to challenge Lionel Messi none race? The report notes Cooley declines to name his principal beyond indicating a well known millionaire new to racing.
Landscape gardener Frederick Law Olmstead of New York has been invited by the Yale corporation to serve as landscape architect for the Hillhouse property. On August 1 the site will be presented to the corporation for development into park and botanical garden connected with Yale forest school.
The fragment shows a dialogue with The Count seeking to clear an accusation while denying mercenary motives. The Heiress questions, then The Count reassures, insisting the issue concerns creditors rather than personal gain.
The article argues some diseases become income sources for patients who supply study material to doctors. It cites Alexis St Martin’s stomach wound, hospital patients paid to endure exams, and rare cases like bubonic plague or lip epithelioma. It warns that if a physician seeks photographs or public exhibition, the disease may be valuable.
James Huneker recalls Joe Jefferson in 1880 during Rivals revival at Arch Street theater. Ten years later he recalls the actor’s dry humor in Union Square near a paint shop where he bought materials for painting barns rather than politics of town.
A poem fragment discusses a fragile house of cards built with love and tenderness, then a contrasting tale in Thomas B. Reed's Portland office where a drunken stranger asks about a car for the depot. Reed advises to take the first car at the next corner, the second will not be there.
America’s Catholic population stands around fourteen million. Including the Philippines and Puerto Rico would push total Catholic numbers beyond 20.6 million.
The British War Department will keep the lance in use, reversing the move to abolish it. It was noted as the only weapon used by troops in South Africa that struck fear into the enemy.
An Iowa inventor introduces a collapsible stencil holder to assist painters in applying wall and ceiling patterns. The device clamps against a surface, folds compactly for transport, and adjusts for alignment and room height, enhancing ease of use and potentially lowering costs.
Arizona’s Petrified Forest features a famed natural bridge of petrified wood spanning a canyon fifty feet wide. The blocky agate and jasper log ends rest in shale, with about 100 feet exposed, and annual erosion reveals more. government placed two stone abutments under the log to form three spans, aiming to preserve it for several years.
An overview traces pews from early English church standing to private box seats, sofas and tables by Elizabeth and Charles I, with later gains in Georgian times. It cites More and Bishop Eden, mentions servants delivering wine during services, and notes exclusion of the poor by heavy partitioning before, while continental cathedrals retained standing seating. An European invention with a Tyrolean wheel relates irrigation machinery.
Too Close for Comfort reports Col. M. W. Lampton at a lakeside camp in Norway Maine was grazed by a stray bullet through a wall while dining. He finished in a bomb proof built to store potatoes, now repurposed as shelter. A woodchuck near Adams Massachusetts climbs a tree in unusual display, photographed by JW Thompson after a dire incident.
A crowded church wedding is mocked in verse. A pompous lord with a red face and a nervous bride listen as a bishop asks the standard vows. The maid responds uncertainly, while etiquette and alcohol permeate the scene amid comic detail.
In Chicago a street car halted to deal with a teenage passenger Ethel Morrison 16 after hairpins and hair tangled her braids on the front platform. The motorman asked her to leave the car as she refused saying she needed time to fix her hair prompting a police report.
A 19th century Malay practice settles cases by underwater ordeal. Pleadings are sealed in bamboo tubes placed with two boys tied to stakes, submerged neck deep, one released when surfacing for air. The party whose tube is torn from the boy loses. the winner is declared by the rajah.
A traveler notes a curious 19th century practice in China where a friend ties a mirror to a branch with twigs and hangs the sick man’s coat beneath it. The man walks while a priest performs a ritual to draw disease from the patient. failure is deemed unavoidable.
A French couple reportedly maintains meals at one table yet remains unspoken partners. The wife sends anonymous postcards to alter dining hours, the husband notes illness and orders breakfast via a message, and money is borrowed from the maid with repayment by the master. At Christmas he finally speaks by telephone from the city, yet legal separation is avoided only to avoid mutual dissatisfaction.
A boat of the British Central Africa administration crossing Lake Nyassa near Livingstonia Mission was attacked by a sea serpent described as thick as a man's leg. It attempted to board the vessel but was beaten off with oars and paddles despite a strong head wind. Naturalists in the area doubt it was a python, as pythons dwell in forests.
A 104 year old Scot, James Grieve of Loch Long, begins a mobility powered tour visiting old friends. He walks six miles to Ardluf then twelve more to Tyndrum, then to a comrade’s boance before visiting his wife’s Braves and his son in Dunblane and Falkirk, enjoying the voyage amid praise.
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