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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1905
Page
2
A fragmentary OCR item shows times like 5:00 p.m 4:08 p.m 5:30 a.m with unclear context and no identifiable event, place, or names. No definite agenda or participants are readable.
A poem praising the diligent worker who accepts duties, remains silent, and performs tasks well. It extols steady effort, sturdy health, and honest perseverance, noting rewards and goodness for earnest, faithful lives.
In Rawsonville a dying letter brings 18 year old Jimmy, an idiot, to live with Aunt Sarah Hicks. Deacon Harkness pushes for him to attend church, sparking town debate and a chaotic scene as Jimmy disrupts services with stones and bees invade the churchyard. The deacon’s plan collapses and the crowd flees in uproar.
After a rough morning, Deacon Harkness bathes lamps and bandages a boy called Jimmy. Aunt Earah notes Jimmy slept peacefully on the floor and the deacon plans to take him to Sunday service again, believing the experience did him good.
The Oregon Historical Society disapproved of the Indian yarn about Lewis and Clark at St Helena, noting no initials on the oak tree and doubting Indigenous chronicles. The piece derides two Indian types seen by the public, cigar store figures and hollow gold bricks, as sham stereotypes, while urging caution about traditional accounts shaped by intoxicants and sensationalism.
California correspondent Richard Barry recalls amusing incidents among reporters at the war’s start in northern Manchuria. American journalists, blocked from joining troops southward, debate with a Russian officer who notes the impossibility of changing government policy. A brash Chicago man questions wartime advertising.
A New York physician notes a hale old man with a baffling mix of diseases. The patient recalls a diagnostic remark from two decades ago foretelling his death, yet he remains cheerful and seeks treatment. The story highlights medical curiosity and the odd endurance of the man.
A publisher recalls W D Howells as Harper’s editor when a rough young man submitted a poem. Howells questions authorship and the youth insists he wrote it alone. Howells retorts with a Byron burn, noting the poet’s supposed death at Missolonghi long ago.
The passage describes a speaker seeking untrammeled sea, crossing dunes to the main, and finding life’s end in a vision of enduring peace. It evokes distant shores, inner longing, and a voyage toward a tranquil bourne beyond eternity.
A Lehigh County tale recounts a courtly mischief where a dog chasing what appeared to be a rabbit chased a cat wearing a rabbit skin up a tree. The rabbit decoy stunned the dog, ruining it as a rabbit hunter, prompting questions of legal action from Joseph Bastian. In Fort Snelling history, Tenth Battery preserves a Boxer Rebellion cannon captured near the Forbidden City. Captain Henry J. Reilly died during the 1900 assault on Pekin walls while the gun was recovered and mounted at the unit barracks.
William Mercier, a water department laborer, carved a 20 inch wooden statue of Mayor Chas S Ashley from a single block. The figure, painted with flesh tones, sits with a book and a flowerpot on a table. Mercier spent six months crafting the piece and sent a friend to deliver it. New Bedford correspondence Boston Herald.
A Dedham Massachusetts family owns a rare daguerreotype of Jenny Lind from her first Boston visit. The image, over fifty years old, captures the Swedish Nightingale and has not appeared in newspapers until now.
Dr W G Kiehler of St Marys Ohio shows aged tobacco from his farm grown 29 years ago now used to make cigars with claim age enhances quality others who smoked them praise the effect Also mentions a noted flute player the duke of Oporta brother of the king of Portugal describes Apeut Mute players in the world
The excerpt proclaims the Will of the West as God guiding free men to conquer labor and build a homeland. It urges self reliance and work under a vast sky, linking land, home, love, and prosperity to the toil of the individual. The voice calls for going west as the path to liberty and blessing.
The piece notes Jessie Bartlett Davis and Minnie Maddern Fiske as linked to Oh Promise Me and In the Gloaming, with a remark on their enduring association. It recounts Davis altering the Robin Hood setting to suit her contralto, boosting the song’s success, and recalls Boswell’s anecdote of Gen Ogelthorpe’s witty counter insult to a Württemberg prince at table.
A brief note on Queen Anne era sugar tongs and Dr. Samuel Johnson’s remark about the French at a 1775 Paris party. Then a vignette: ex-Congressman Shafroth recalls disbelief after losing in November, with a Denver encounter and a mock celebration of predicted victory.
Four towns in the Philippines exceed 10 000 population and thirty five exceed 5 000. Manila is the only incorporated city with about 219 928 inhabitants.
A Dutch tramway company based in Alkmaar announces plans to build a steam tramway. The project will be developed by the recorder Stoomtramwagon maat a chap pla, signaling a move toward urban transit expansion in the Netherlands.
The Buck Shoals mountain home once lived in by humorist Bill Nye has been sold to Sophie Harrison Eastman of Chicago, sister of Carter H. Harrison. The 100 acre estate near Biltmore, ten miles south of Asheville, may be renovated for use as a summer home. The price runs well into the thousands and the new owner plans immediate possession after repairs. Buck Shoals is famed as Nye’s best work site and mountain retreat.
A Philadelphia Record reader recalls startling new skin colored stockings seen recently. The observer notes their lifelike appearance, range of shades, and unsettling effect, comparing them to bare legs at the seashore. The piece hints doubts about acceptance here despite attempts in Paris.
Paris municipal laboratory reviews Dr Vogel soy bean cheese as nourishing and tasty. The London Lancet reports chestnuts as more digestible than potatoes, with higher proteid and fat, less water and minerals, best when baked or roasted.
A Gallup of the Philippines shows 13 400 barrios with an average of 500 inhabitants. Three fifths of residents live in villages under 1 000 and 4 percent in larger towns. The study notes wide variation in barrio size by province and the prevalence of pueblo level administration. Meanwhile Professor Edward W Clark at Ripon College secures a fine collection of Roman antiquities after extensive study in Rome and Italy for the institution.
Fragmentary OCR note describes a toy scene with a carina or ccarina and tiny manikins with nests of boxes, referencing American children and familiar toy arrangements. Context suggests a whimsical or allegorical description of a child’s playthings and a royal figure.
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