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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1905
Page
3
A varied page blends a patriotic verse urging a man with ambition and steady faith to walk a lighted path, avoid Satan’s snares, and strive with purpose. It interleaves household science, games, and cultural notes on daisies, apes as golf caddies, and playful education tidbits for children.
A Frenchman offers orange toy ideas including a napkin ring from orange skin, a bonbonniere, and paper animals drawn on peel. Figures show using a tumbler as ring insert, two oranges for a head, and features carved with wool and cotton to preserve shape.
Instructions describe making a three-part fruit figure from cut sections, shaped and pasted on cardboard, with a ring inner lip, a rosette ribbon handle, and coloring to resemble fruit. Figures TIT and VY detail a doll with a carved head, apron, cape from orange skin, baby from inner skin, cork head, and face paper cape from candy box lining.
A fierce storm struck Peter Jordan’s farm eight miles northwest of the city as lightning split a barn. Earl Jordan, the youngest, was badly burned and blinded temporarily. another son was shocked but recovered. a third boy aided Earl. Two horses in stalls were killed on opposite barn sides, no fire occurred and the physician arrived to treat the injured boy. The Vermillion correspondence notes the freak bolt and unclear eyesight recovery for Earl.
The article describes several species where males care for eggs. In Darwin's frog the male carries eggs in a body pouch, swallowing them until tadpoles form. Other species wrap egg strings around hind legs or assist Surinam toads in placing eggs into the female's back hexagonal cells for incubation. The female often withdraws from parental duties.
A fragment of poetry voices heartbreak as imperial romance collides with history. Leslie's Weekly notes that Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte of Baltimore is increasingly seen as the rightful Bonaparte heir, due to Eugenie influence and the status of Jerome’s marriage to Elizabeth Patterson.
The first Jew to be accepted as an officer in the Prussian army is noted as the Rothschild line. Baron Rothschild is named chamberlain with lieutenant rank after Kaiser's intervention. Jacob H Schiff of New York chairs a committee on plans for the 250th anniversary of Jewish settlement in North America, with details undecided.
Inventors offer a tilting gate designed for farm entrances to be opened from a moving vehicle. A counterbalanced pivot elevates the gate with minimal effort, a rope and pulley allow operation from the seat of an oncoming car, with a latch bar securing the mechanism in place.
commotion in a zoo yard as Mountain Goat and Common Sheep babies are swapped. Mrs Mountain Goat lurches to protect her kid while Mrs Sheep defends hers, leading to a gentle butting clash before each mother retrieves the correct offspring.
A North Borneo Herald note reports two crocodile fatalities and several near misses linked to river washing. An aged Chinese man was arrested at Timbang Batu for washing a mosquito net in the river, a coincidence that, along with a woman’s later crocodile attack nearby, reinforces the local superstition.
A London agony column note requests the return of a dark blue Chesterfield overcoat taken from the coach of the 21st Lancers at Greenford on Std April. The owner asks the finder to forward the coat to Rimmell & Allsopp tailors at 69 New Bond Street.
In Vineland New Jersey the Allen family woke to eerie noises described as ghosts within the house. A hungry rat had ventured into the cellar to reach clams and became caught by a foot inside a trap mussel. The rat tried to escape but died in the attempt.
A vivid wartime poem depicts a red haze over villages and fields during battle. A grieving mother with her sleeping baby watches as fields lie unharvested and war drums on. A horseman leads troops while families endure loss and fear, asking if war is holy or hollow. The piece reflects on poverty, monarchs, and the poor in a turbulent 1905 Russia setting.
In EB Whitington's In the Northern Seas the recounting of Alfred Searcy's voyage notes a $20 hawk bill turtle shell and turtles used for tortoiseshell, greenback meat, and rich fat. It describes nesting, eggs, mangrove foxes, an eagle catching a fox, flying fox swarms, coral rock spearfishing, and narcotic plant fishing methods in Bowen straits and Port Essington.
Mrs J J Brown, a Colorado society leader, agrees to insure Denver's juvenile court income by leasing a Cripple Creek claim. She personally inspects ore and selects a mine. Since opening, smelter receipts and expenses have added over $1,000 to the Denver juvenile court fund.
A correspondent from Amoy describes tigers in the western mountains, hunting at night and preying on villagers and livestock. Tales recount a tiger dragging a pig up steep hills and a Chinaman waking in a tiger trap, remarking that sleep overtook him in a trap set for a year without result.
This article urges that success hinges on bringing the full self to work each day. It warns that poor habits, lack of sleep, and dissipation impair all faculties, dulling effort across any task from teaching to painting. Only a strong physical and mental condition yields consistently productive results.
The Rev Dr George Hodges, dean of the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, a famed Boston storyteller, recounts a tale about parsonage humility and clerical disguise. A Chicago visit ends with an inebriated stranger miscalling a rector in a Turkish bath, prompting the cleric to collapse in humor.
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