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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1905
Page
2
A poem fragment by McLandburgh Wilson traces a morning birth and aging. It contrasts a mother’s hopeful carriage ride with a lover’s kiss and a looming stranger with a scythe, signaling life’s passing shadows and the inevitability of death.
On a Channel voyage Captain Hill of the schooner Whydah frets over jealous wife and smuggles a male stowaway in the mate Jenkins’s cuddy to avoid scandal. The plot unravels when Mrs Hill insists on renovating the cuddy and discovers the disguise, revealing a deserting seaman under the mate’s care.
A man at the wharf asks the schooner skipper about Captain Tomlinson's marriage. The skipper replies to the mate George that Captain Tomlinson is not married, a detail noted by Jenkins who has known him for years.
In Mobile a colored carpenter Botts testifies in a justice court case. The cross examiner presses on his trade as jack-leg carpenter. Botts explains its meaning by comparing himself to a first class lawyer, noting the difference is like that between a skilled craftsman and a top attorney.
A desert carp raised by Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Van Kirk grew from a minnow to 81 1/2 pounds in a year. The fish, found in a drying pond north of town, was captured after a year of roaming the pasture pond. Mrs. Van Kirk reports the tale as unimpeachable. her husband is cited as busily engaged in cattle.
Thomas W. Lawson laughed at a street clock advertisement driven by air currents. He left a horse with a street urchin who expected a dollar an hour and demanded two hundred seven dollars by the clock. Lawson marveled at the clock’s rapid hands and quipped that Wall Streeters might do more business with wind than anyone, but this took his time.
Lee Woodward Zeigler describes the rapid sunset over Popocatapetl near Mexico City. The blazing sun sinks behind distant mountains as shadows engulf the plain, the snow crest glows like an opal, and night falls while travelers pass by with quiet farewell adios.
A lyric piece compares a beloved to a serene island amid a restless sea. The speaker longs for the Southernea’s tranquility as clouds hover and radiance rarely breaks through. Love serves as a guiding star in the speaker’s distant, hopeful quest.
Fifty years after the siege of Sebastopol is reviewed as a defining Crimean War episode. The piece recounts the harbor fortifications, the July 1854 landing, the brutal eleven‑month bombardment, and the Allied assaults leading to the fall of Sebastopol in September 1855. It notes the harsh winter, heavy casualties, and the dramatic Malakoff and Redan actions culminating in the Russian retreat.
In Everybody's May issue Mr. Russell explains how corn feeding of range cattle built a vast credit network. Ranchers borrowed from local banks to finance cattle fattened on corn after delivering ranges from Nebraska and Colorado. The system linked farmers, banks, and meat markets in a booming but vulnerable trade.
A substitute teacher in a summer school for teachers is drawn into a playful sociology lecture on marriage by a young professor. He ends with the church formula, teasing that she is “given away” and she asks if the man in the case has been sold, eliciting sparkling innuendo.
Canada’s mineral sector produced total goods valued at 12 870 593 dollars with wages of 4 222 386 dollars. Nonmetallic products amounted to 7 628 018 dollars and metallic products 6 242 575 dollars. Gold production reached 10 383 ounces worth 188 036 dollars employing 493 people paid 245 490 dollars in wages. Silver yielded 16 688 ounces valued 8 949 with 8 000 dollars in wages. Lead production was 25 tons worth 1 500 dollars at a cost of 5 189 dollars. Copper and nickel properties produced 3 215 794 dollars with wages 872 302 dollars, leaving strong margins for supplies and profit.
Andrew Carnegie earns freedom of Ilkeston and Eastbourne for libraries and institutions. He joins the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards in London and receives a casket commemorating his citizenship. He is noted as holding more town freedoms than any other citizen and may soon need a museum for his parchment rolls.
A 19th century note recalls Hon Amos Tuck asking for Tombigbee river extent. A Washington inquiry requested information on how far the Tombigbee ran up the valley. The postmaster replied with a curt, humorous line stating the river runs down all the way.
A poetic excerpt contemplates tea, tents, and faded life as leaves fall. The speaker compares human constancy to sparrows and birds under divine care, noting God watches over all creation and seeks to do good as Father.
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