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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
14
A garbled OCR excerpt shows scattered times and routes including Galena and Louis entries. Readable items indicate early morning departures around 6:30 to 7:33 a.m with multiple city connections. exact lines and destinations are unclear due to text corruption.
A 1910s style summary surveys nose shapes across populations. It notes long noses in Europe, short noses in certain groups, and flat noses among Inuit and Mongolian peoples. The piece cites observers such as Lavater and da Vinci on the nose as a defining facial feature and fashion influence.
A critic lauds London as vast and open minded with audiences for all players. The city welcomes kings generals enemies and rulers alike with equal fervor while forgetting human achievements as it endures through time.
A curiosity column lists the average man at 154 pounds with detailed body part weights and functions. It explains heart rate, breathing, air turnover, and fluid loss, then shifts to volcanoes as odd contrasts with Mount Pelee and Shishaldin, noting eruptive rings and a New York Press aside.
A traveler ties his animal to a pin and leaves it for others to use. A second man, thirsty and hurried, throws the pin down the well to prevent future harm. A learned man says both actions are savab because their intentions were good.
Old Deacon Morse is praised for sharp wit in a harbor incident. While two vessels drifted together in New York harbor a rival captain shouted for Morse to cut loose. Morse refused and warned they would not reach Hell Gate if the other vessel stayed attached. The captain relented and cut loose.
Fragmentary verse questions the lover about revealing true feelings and the response of a beloved. The speaker wonders how the beloved would react to declarations of love and vows never to part, while speculating on fear and anticipation in wooing.
The Grand Canyon of Arizona begins to draw tourists as geologists note its vast 200 plus mile length and thousand foot walls. Its color painted rocks and climatic variety inspire visions of a world class wonder with winter snow and valley fruit. Clouds gather as rainstorms form above the rim.
In a government forest preserve, the Grand Canyon is praised as a vast natural wonder to remain public and untouched by commercialism. The article notes 50,000 visitors last year and expects rising tourist numbers as it describes geology, cliff dwellings of the Aztecs, and the Colorado River running through the canyon.
The Los Angeles Times notes the Los Angeles Club Women’s garden contest run by the outdoor art section led by Mrs Willoughby Rodman. Ten floral and vegetable races offer prizes totaling 187.50 with rewards for front yard, backyard, side yard, vines, window boxes and vegetable plots.
A fish market tale shows a lean customer from New England misnaming seafood from squieague to bluefish and blackfish. The market trader notes regional speech quirks and recalls an Englishman asking for savory duck, highlighting language variety in markets.
A string of wry one liners on public speakers speech, luck, sleep, and hypocrisy. The jokes mix social bites about optimists, lawyers, doctors, and the idle rich, with pithy quips on race luck and waiting for a dinner that may never come.
A collection of moody asides on human folly and reform. It jests at egotists and grandfathers while noting how experience humbles pride. It mocks humorless women and testing Heaven’s streets with acid for curiosity. It shifts from refusals to the enjoyments of denying favors.
The text links eye color and shape to personality. Blue eyes signal capacity and sensibility but difficult taste. gray eyes mark talent. brown and hazel vary. Hazel women are discreet, loyal, shrewd, preferring spouse comfort over self, and loving.
This passage outlines etiquette for social hospitality. It cautions guests to avoid intruding on hosts affairs, be direct after visits, and not treat entertain ment as a hobby. It also stresses appropriate bathing facilities, proper hosting boundaries, attentiveness to the family, avoiding unnecessary work for servants, and steering clear of gossip.
A chorus of Civil War vignettes contrasts a hapless recruit’s bungling with moments of steadfast discipline. The narrative follows a stubborn yet comic recruit in Johnston’s Nashville camp, a daring escape, and a Shiloh-era test of duty as veterans stand firm at a crucial bridge, illustrating contrasts between seasoned soldiers and wavering regiments.
Starved Union soldiers from the First New York volunteers and others confined at Andersonville faced a cruel speech by the superintendent recounting government abandonment. The offer to enlist for clerical work and Confederate allegiance was met by a one-legged sergeant who urged a return to the stockade.
In the current U S Senate of ninety members nine are Union veterans and sixteen Confederate veterans. In the House of Representatives with 435 members there are thirty Union veterans and eight Confederate veterans.
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