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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1905
Page
2
Readable fragments show a sequence of stray times and notes such as 230 a.m and 1:19 p.m with unclear context. The garbled text suggests a schedule or timetable item, but specific events, names, places, or actions are absent.
A reflective verse by S. Eb. Kiser on happiness not arising from wealth status health or praise. It emphasizes cherishing what is truly ours and understanding others may view our treasures as rare.
A divided pair Calvin and Mattie, once sixteen and eighteen, part at youth’s edge to seek their fates in the world. Ten years pass. he falters in dissipation while she endures, then he finds her in a stage box. They reconcile and return to the old farm to rebuild together, with earned sorrow and quiet resolve.
A tale from a circle around Scotty the alleged Death Valley millionaire cowhand recalls Billy the Kid outsmarting a pursuing detective. The story hinges on keen observation and a moment of testy humor as the detective misreads the granger disguise and Billy fires a warning shot.
A Harper's Bazar excerpt highlights the concept of the Ideal guest LG. It describes how a considerate guest helps the hostess by keeping rooms tidy turning beds to air and storing belongings out of sight. The piece praises discretion and respect for others' privacy in social visits.
An old hotel billing practice called corkage arose to deter guests from bringing their own wine, ensuring patrons bought at the hotel. Now rare, the corkage line remains on bills as a relic of past hospitality customs.
In a humorous anecdote about Dr. Abernethy, a medical student counters a sharp exam question with wit. The doctor asks what muscles would move if kicked, and the student replies he would use the flexors and extensors of his right arm to knock him down.
A brief quip contrasts shopping motives with social rules. The offhand philosopher jokes that women buy attire to suit imagined activities, noting golf, dancing, tennis, swimming, riding, and finally welding as a sign she means business.
A fragmentary poem paints a quaint rural idyll with white Houke and a green hillside. It evokes a blue brook, red earth, golden wheat or rye, a fond wife with brown eyes and a wee child, and a dreamlike kiss near a dew kissed brink, amid shoreless emotion.
The piece reflects on Jamaica's colonial era as the sugar plantations faded due to European beet sugar and shifts to bananas for the American market. It recalls the great houses at Tulloch and Spanish Town, the lingering hospitality, the nana figure in Jamaican life, and how former planters' fortunes and social rituals resemble old southern Virginia wealth, with a nostalgic memory of luxe banquets, dances, and ballrooms now replaced by decay and memory.
A neighbor asks who the ambulance was for and learns it was Mr Tellumwhott. The second neighbor says he was overheated while trying to push his reform rules on the Hardhead crowd, suffering a sunshake rather than serious harm.
Kustenji is a Roumanian port noted as the place where the mudgeers of the Knias Po temkins surrendered. It is identified as the ancient town banished the poet Ovlil by Emperor Augustus, where he died.
Naturalist photographer W. L. Finley describes Three Arch Rocks off the Oregon coast where California murres lay single eggs in cliff niches rather than nests. The murre eggs have a tapered top shape to prevent rolling, staying on sloped edges and resisting gravity as they settle.
A Baltimore American poem contrasts a rich adult with a poor boy, noting the boy’s constraints from cleanliness and propriety. The speaker laments the boy’s inability to play freely, imagine, or work in dirt, while the father remains strong and normal in society. The piece critiques social class expectations.
Mrs Bentover laments a hen’s odd behavior in the barn yard. The bird refuses to lay, quarrels with other fowl, shows strange wheezing, and this morning apparently crowed. Farmer Bentover suspects the bird may be training to become a primer donner.
The London deceased Lady Diana de Vere Huddleston bequeaths ninety thousand dollars to her servants. She orders her ashes to be cremated and placed in the oak shrine at Courtt's Bank and buried with her husband, whose ashes she carried for fifteen years.
A brief Baltimore American note describes Abou Ben Adhem as a practical Christian who loves his fellow man. He willingly moves from the end seat of an open car to make room for the next passenger, illustrating everyday charity.
Pet dogs in sunbonnets and blue glass spectacles accompany owners through Berlin streets in hot weather. May Have Municipal Light, Los Angeles appoints an expert to study a municipal electric setting plant feasibility.
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