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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1905
Page
3
The writer meditates on missed letters to friends and family including an Ohio judge and cousin George. He urges readers to write more, suggesting five minutes weekly as a plan, and invites messages for a future postal card wisdom department. Address provided for contributions.
A Pilgrim writer notes wasps keep exceedingly neat habits with apical spurs on each leg acting as fine combs. The grooming sequence starts with front legs over the face, then smooths the forehead, wings, and abdomen, finishing with each leg drawn between its peers to restore readiness.
Reports from northern Vermont claim a 4500-person strip near the Canadian boundary belongs to Canada, though survey chief Mr. Tittman in Washington denies any field word. Monuments mark the line and may settle the boundary if treaty descriptions are followed. Vermont residents likely won’t be relocated.
Mr Muggins introduces himself to a bride of six weeks and compliments the "beautiful Mrs Smythe" only to learn she is the wife of his husband’s cousin. He replies with a puzzled, humorous remark realizing the mix up.
In 1904 German shipyards produced 278 steamships totaling 210,999 gross tons and 240 sailing vessels of 49,712 gross tons. By early 1905 they had 152 steam vessels under construction totaling 285,559 tons, including nine men of Wer amounting to 68,640 tons. The 1904 output also included twenty two steamers and several sailing vessels built for foreign account totaling about 20,000 tons.
Thomas M. Semmes recalls Major Jackson and an officer sharing a room. The Major reveals a ruse to hide valuables by placing a watch in one sock and a purse in the other, left on the floor. The narrator jokes about adopting the plan, then the Major warns to avoid wearing clean socks next morning.
A Chicago Chronicle item recalls a young man who drank nearly a dozen absinthes and, after a train ride home, sat in a muddy puddle with his feet in water insisting his roots must stay in the water to keep radishes alive. His friends feared he would die if moved.
New Yorker J Wadsworth Ritchie has become a naturalized British subject. Raised abroad among English surroundings, his mother also took English status after a second marriage. He served as an officer in the Boer War and is well connected in London society.
The London Express notes Murray's New English Dictionary shows P, once the least used initial in oldest English works, now ranks among the most common initials. More than 4921 words start with P, with only two other letters surpassing or matching its frequency, and only three are old English words.
An account notes final utterances of famed figures and actors before death. John Richard Green whispered Stop to the doctor after a farewell, while Phelps as Wolsey cried Farewell to all my greatness. Richard I forgave Youth and freed his slain foe with compensation.
London physician Dr James Goodheart argues strong talk beats coddling a supposed weak heart. He says naming people sound despite poor health breeds nervous dread or idleness, both harming recovery and life utility.
A poem recounts Lucifer’s fall and his gift of wealth that comes with a fatal price. It laments how rulers and the powerful crave gold and lands while sacrificing souls, only to end with Lucifer holding the souls in Hell and worldly empires spent.
A Liverpool Mercury item jokes about exam paper answers that misdefine anatomy and physiology. It cites phrases like the thoracic duct as a goosequill weight and knee bones as shin bone and sub-maxillary, noting humorous misunderstandings in students.
A South Side landlady loudly upbraids a derelict lodger in a Chicago Record-Herald item. She taunts him to pay the room rent claimed at 40 dollars a week, while the man, said to be leaving, takes the trolley without replying.
A dying Garibaldi believes two birds at his window are the spirits of his children and asks for kindness to feed them after his death. The note also recalls Carlyle’s painful end and his wife’s sorrow, ending with his wry remark about suffering.
A farm laborer marrying soon promised the minister payment in potatoes when digging began. After a delay the minister asked for the fee and the man confessed he would like to pay but said the bride was “ain't worth it.” Source: Harper's Weekly.
A quoted reflection on love claims misunderstandings with women are simple. It suggests striking evidence of affection through extreme acts, implying a black eye proves devotion and burial absence proves satisfaction, in a troubling exchange.
A Bath letter recalls the city’s long role as a literary and social hub. Notes include Goldsmith, Shelley, Keats, Johnson, Boswell, Pitt, and Beau Nash shaping Bath’s cultural life, with portraits by Gainsborough and links to Dickens, Austen, and Sheridan. The piece also visits the pump room, theatre, and a Maine college prank amid Bath’s storied past.
A summer hotel terrace erupts as a crowd of fifty women scream in delight and confusion when a distant, thrilling call announces the sea Serpent approaching. They surge to the edge to watch, certain a man is coming, yet the coming figure is the sea creature itself.
A devotional piece contrasts the beauty of giving with fulfillment through submission and obedience. It argues that liberty comes through obedience, as iron ore and humans alike must bend to universal laws to achieve greatness, health, wisdom, and spiritual beauty. It urges patient, hopeful acceptance of forthcoming insights.
Sermon exhortation urging believers to seek motive and stimulus in Jesus Christ rather than Sinai law. Emphasizes grace over fear, placing on Christ, and living out of gratitude for redemption. Christ’s love constrains, guiding strength to act, endure, and suffer as the Father designs.
In a lyric meditation, the text speaks of life’s disclosures withheld for future revelation. It contemplates how new events cast light on past mysteries and trigger a bloom of understanding within a radiance that reveals hidden forms. The prose hints at transformation through revelation.
A devotional analysis explains that virtue completeness and perfection differ. It notes roll call and inspection tests as crucial in forming a complete, but not yet perfect, Christian company. It emphasizes patience and divine aid through prayer when lacking wisdom.
A devotional passage extolls the heavenly land of joy and holiness, contrasting it with this world’s barrenness, shallow streams, and discordant music. It urges duty over fear, faith in God’s power, and rewards for the faithful, describing transformation in heaven and on earth.
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