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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1905
Page
3
A verse excerpt contrasts a bleak world with resilience, urging workers to press on with humor and solidarity. It frames hardships as widespread yet contrasts them with the rose that still blooms toward heaven, urging help and cheerful endurance.
A Victorian-era note describes a cone balancing experiment using two sticks forming a V to show gravity. It explains how widening the gap beneath the cone makes it roll downhill in apparent defiance, and cites a fish anecdote from George A. B. Dewar about a healthy trout aiding a diseased one, followed by a chocolate caramel recipe and various home science and craft notes including Raphael Sanzio and a paper box project.
A science note describes Foucault’s gyroscope top and a simple experiment using twine to wind the top and release it, showing horizontal spin while supported by a single end. It also explains a card drawing illusion by reverse shuffling the deck and revealing drawn cards with faces upward then downward.
The article describes a slight of hand handkerchief production from a lit candle using a concealed silk handkerchief in a matchbox drawer fooled by examination. It then introduces a “Magic Cone” illusion with two cardboard cones forming a double cone that appears to roll uphill without force using a setup with two books and walking sticks.
A playful suggestion encourages girls and boys to host a soap bubble contest this summer. Teams form on each side with clay pipes and ribbons, sharing bowls of soapy water augmented by glycerin to create colorful bubbles. Girls lead the bubble making for added charm.
A curious home craft describes reviving a dead doll by mounting a china head on a small wheeled cart driven by a spiral spring and crank wires. The setup makes the doll raise and squat with each wheel turn, offering a peculiar amusement from an otherwise lifeless toy.
Sergt Buehl explains to the Philadelphia Ledger how wigwagging from hill to hill and telegraph lines guided American troops landing in Panama. He cites heliograph use, maintained routes, and signaling on jungle hills to prevent patrols from going astray and to outmaneuver native wiles.
A Virginian recalls Thomas Nelson Page and his family after the Civil War. Wearied by poverty, Mrs Page refurnished for guests and, noting a worn sofa, asked her husband to cover the ragged spot. Page rose mid conversation and quipped he could not act as a patch any longer.
A composite clipping blends a poem about carefree riding with a historical note from Maj. Barchard recounting a firing squad execution of a Boer spy in South Africa. The soldier's reflection links the fate of each firing party member to that grim morning, while the poem celebrates freedom and the open meadow.
An Eastern affairs expert warns that after the war China will flood Manchuria with colonists to form an insurmountable barrier against Russia. The writer argues that had this been done years ago Russia could not have advanced southward.
The venerable reformer and publicist H B Blackwell marked his eightieth birthday in Houston. A key figure in the free soil movement, he married Lucy Stone, a reader in the woman suffrage movement in 1855. He has long advocated suffrage for women.
A brief note on Sarah Bernhardt each morning, her maid bringing coffee and rolls to her bed after waking. The article highlights her consistent breakfast routine regardless of the hour.
Essay on college benefactions stressing that true endowment lies in graduates' character. Highlights William H Baldwin's $2,000 bequest as morally meaningful, and praises civic service of a railroad president willing to sacrifice his position for public duty as a richer university contribution than material gifts. George W. Alger cited.
Lisbon reports Dr Urbino de Freitas, famed physician, freed after ten years in prison and banished from Portugal by King Carlos. He allegedly guarded a cure for leprosy and departs with his wife for Berlin where German students await his arrival. A Coimbra resident claimed he was cured before the arrest.
Col Shepard at Muskogee questions an Indian about managing property and hog feeding. An anecdote recalls Abbott Roby, who feared a black coffin and had a white stripe painted around it for his burial, a town event with Masonic rites.
Upon the Canadian Pacific railway's first Maine passage, onlookers crowded to watch the new train. The roadmaster paused at a town crossing, and an elderly witness asked what the spectacle was, receiving the reply that it was a young engine. She pondered aloud if the newcomer was a yearling or a two year old.
Fragmentary verse recalls sea breeze, woods, old companions, and a heart weighed by memory. The speaker longs for morning walks, noontide tasks, and night dreams, seeking the old trees, gate, house, and wild wood that beckon from boyhood days.
A Milwaukee Sentinel poem and devotional fragment extolling steadfast guidance toward safety and virtue. It weaves a lyric appeal about the needle like guidance in life, divine support, and the call to faith obedience and service. It ends with reflections on rights, outer forces, and moral improvement.
The aged Hermas text contrasts the elm bearing more fruit than the vine when supported, teaching that unseen loving service often yields the greatest good. It urges living onward, overcoming evil, and leaving a blessing in others, so memory itself becomes a lasting gift. Adapted from J R Miller’s reflections.
The piece argues sincerity is the core of character, with no distinction between white and black sins. It cites Dr. Joseph Cummings on white lies as lies that are whitewashed, and quotes Ruskin on the harm of falsity, stressing that sincerity or insincerity defines moral action.
A meditation on the Alps ice palace melting away into liquid wealth. The sun turns splendor to ruin while a stream carries away the melt to a meadow. God gives fertility of soul over glittering fortune, as preached by Rev. G B Willcox.
A religious exhortation on morning secret prayer citing Jesus and David. It argues that starting the day in private prayer guards thoughts from the world, strengthens early devotion, and sets the level of religious enjoyment for the day. It attributes the view to Rev. Albert Barnes.
A devotional reflection asserts that yielding to God provides safety and calm. It recalls Fenelon on divine guardianship as a parent watches a child, urging trust over anxious desire while God sustains, guards, and loves beyond death. The passage emphasizes serene confidence and unwavering reliance on divine mercy.
A Daily Thought cites P Henson on the beauty and cost of small acts for Christ. It laments that many overlook the ten thousand little things of life, despite their value in judgment, noting deeds and words endure beyond time.
A short moral note cites a Moslem child preferring Christianity saying she loves Jesus because he loves little girls, contrasting with Mohammed. The remark is offered as an illustration of perceived religious differences and appeal.
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