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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1905
Page
3
A compact verse reflecting on fleeting time to work and play. It speaks of gathering rosebuds despite thorns and striving for a name amid a crowd. The lines explore fate, nature's scorn, praise and blame, sun and cloud, speed and rest, and the quest for knowledge and ecstasy in poetry.
In a Gypsy camp near a village Toni the elder falls ill and Anita, his granddaughter, begs Dr Graves to save him. The doctor vows to help and amid tense loyalties, Costello plots, but the healer defeats the risk and wins Anita. Toni dies after blessing their union, and Anita and Graves wed as a family begins.
The piece argues greatness requires withdrawal from prevailing ideals and public approval. It cites Browning and Tennyson as examples of artists willing to work unknown and pay for publishing, insisting real literature seeks depth over popularity.
A traveler in Egypt writes of desert dust amid heat and wind, noting it can be inorganic and pure compared with European dust. He claims Libyan and Arabian desert dust largely comprises shredded royalty from ancient dynasties, whose mummies and remains enrich soil and yield pigments for artists.
An American visitor in London criticized English nose blowing in public venues. A newspaper retorts that nose blowing is a modern physical culture trend. It cites adenoids as linked to nasal blowing and suggests the visitor attend Fraulein Wilke's class at the Southwestern Polytechnic in Chelsea to witness a synchronized nose blowing drill.
Samad Khan, recently accredited Persian minister in Paris, is widely known in Persia as a lyrical poet and a practical player on the accomp ion.
A new coal feeding device adds a rotating turret to the locomotive tender. The circular bin houses partitions with individual doors and a hand wheel for easy rotation. This design keeps coal within reach of the fireman, reduces open-door time, and leaves space for water.
A Philadelphia inventor, Russell Thayer, patents a rover electric vehicle that can run on trolley tracks using overhead power, yet leave the tracks to pass obstructions or wagons powered by a storage battery. It targets passenger and freight use, with battery charging resumed once back on tracks. Nearby, a plan aims to have merchant ships report weather daily via wireless, with reports to Washington and forecasts returned by naval stations.
The Toulon built submersible measures 117 feet 7 inches long with a 12 foot 9 inch beam and 172 ton displacement. Its 200 horsepower machine yields 10.5 knots, and trials declare the Aigrette type superior and likely to shape future offensive submarines in France.
German papers announce a discovered anesthetic juice from a plant in Japan named scopola mine. It is touted as superior to similar drugs, administered hypodermically to induce a deep sleep of eight to nine hours with no after effects.
Describes four stall areas A to D and spaces B and C for passage behind feed rooms, with dimensions 9 by 12 feet for A box stalls, 5 by 8 feet for B, 5-foot-wide behind cows for F, 3 feet 6 inches by 6 feet 6 inches for G gutters, H mangers 14 to 18 inches, and notes to board up the outer superstructure and add buttons.
The plan accommodates twenty cows and two teams of horses with comfort and convenience. The barn measures 36 by 56 feet and the basement walls stand eight feet high. Building the basement walls with 17 inch foundations needs 27 cords of stone 27 yards of sand and 160 bushels of lime. A concrete basement floor requires 34 barrels Portland cement and 35 yards of gray thick. Wide passages aid cleaning out for carts or horses and for easy access.
A historic guide explains digging at least three feet deep to place a frost resistant base for a concrete wall around a spring. It recommends a frost barrier outside, wall thickness tapering from fourteen inches bottom to six inches top, and a mix of six parts gravel to one part Portland cement. Water may enter after wall hardening, but delaying is beneficial.
A plan depicts a 40 by 60 foot stable divided to shelter ten horses and ten cattle with two extra box stalls. Wide animal passages allow through access for cleaning, with end doors eight feet wide. A roomy loft is proposed overhead.
Plan outlines box stalls and cow stalls with precise dimensions for A through M sections. Includes hay mangers and various passages, with a proposed building post length of 14 to 16 feet and a hip roof option.
mixing cement with lime mortar requires adding cement immediately to avoid set. For one bushel of cement use four bushels of lime and one yard of sand. If cement mortar is used, follow one to two ratio of cement to sand. For a cellar drain, use tile with a screen to keep vermin out. A good fall keeps the drain open as tile drains before freezing.
To raise water from a lake for a small ranch a wind mill is the most economical option if wind conditions are favorable and the turbine can access sufficient wind. The pump should be near the lake no more than about 20 to 25 feet above lake level, with a large pipe laid on a slope and avoiding sharp turns.
If multiple coats of whitewash exist, scrape off the thickest layer first. Then apply a muriatic acid solution mixed one part acid to two parts water with a brush. The acid disintegrates the lime so it falls away, leaving the brick clean.
If the Hoor is birch or maple mix equal parts boiled linseed oil and coal oil. Apply monthly with a paint brush and wipe off with a cloth. If oak fill grain with hard wood filler then wax with old English floor wax.
A remark argues the public is rarely victimized, asserting instead that the public is simply accommodated by an earnest, perpetual urge to waste money, contrasting views on press exposure and public reception. The exchange highlights skepticism toward media and public discernment.
In a June Delineator piece F Berkeley Smith sketches Norman farmers as thrifty and shrewd. The tale follows Pere Trebard and peers who value economy, refrain direct yes or no answers, and dismiss praise while noting scarce apples and plentiful cider in alternating seasons.
Representative Griggs of Georgia employs a colored youth named Tom who insists on carrying a wedding present to the church. Tom explains he is "gettin ready for de weddin" and carries a bundle. Griggs corrects him that presents go to the bride's house, not the church, leaving Tom puzzled by the church card wording.
A husband returns to find a note from his wife Mrs Brown claiming she has gone to have her kimono cut out. He rushes to a nearby hospital to tell the head nurse he wants to see her before she is etherized. The nurse reveals no Mrs Brown is present, leaving the husband perplexed about the note and his wife's whereabouts.
A fragmentary verse about speed and time contrasts with a historical note: in 1893 Japan had 167000 tons of merchant steamships, rising to 1224 vessels totaling 791053 tons by 1904 after wartime losses. The text ties personal pace to national maritime growth.
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in a recent stock gambling opinion called dealing in futures the self adjustment of society to the probable. The remark frames futures trading as a mechanism reflecting social response to risk within the market.
In Grahamstown South Africa a pair of ostriches sold for a record five thousand dollars. The plucking birds from the chicks yielded from fifty to sixty two and a half dollars each, reflecting high prices for these birds.
The Chuo Shimbun estimates that as of mid April Japan had disbursed about 100,000,000 yeo or 50,000,000 dollars in Manchuria since the start of the conflict. This figure reflects the financial scale of wartime activity and control in the region.
A South Caribou correspondent lists the playful and turbulent events for the summer months. May brings bargain sales and house cleaning, June a wedding, July camp meetings and Sunday fishings, September cattle shows fairs and horse trots, October a tiring run with chores and wood gathering.
Consul Goding cites period based divorce rates per 10000 marriages for regions including New Zealand 116.6 South Australia 29 Queenstown 30 West Australia and Tasmania 41 Victoria 124.4 New South Wales 273.3 and international figures Canada 4 United Kingdom 11 Norway 16 Austria 43 Greece 50 Belgium 81 Sweden 87 Cape Colony 98 Netherlands 103 Germany 165 France 180 Roumania 204 Switzerland 432 United States 612. Eggs preserved. Mrs Burnham and friend found three eggs in a salted cottage basket at Epping New Hampshire after seven months without heat the eggs remained sound tasting fresh.
A Manchester New Hampshire relic, a silver charm once owned by Matthew Thornton, signer of the Declaration, bears the blue lodge Masonry emblem on one side and the chapter symbol on the other. It is not recorded Thornton joined Masonry, but it is thought he may have served in the order during the Revolutionary War, as did Washington and others.
The annual report to local parliament notes state drinks priced at 25 cents a glass. The boarding branch posted a loss of 4250 dollars, while the overall operations yielded a profit of 2600 dollars.
Miss Tillie E. Vose of Boylston reported missing chickens and spotted a large black snake swallowing a chick. She killed the reptile with a shovel and measured its body at nearly five feet, showing resolve in protecting her poultry operation.
Roy Chaney, strolling near a Nor way Maine dwelling, used a pin as a lure and a grasshopper bait to snag a large trout. The catch weighed seventeen ounces, winning a local prize for his swift angling along the brook.
New England town wakes up as Chelsea transitions the sixteen mile link from old stage coach service to an automobile route for summer. The new vehicle completes the run in less than an hour.
A Morrisville VI man shows thrift by buying a farm from five years of tanneries work. He earned never more than 10.65 dollars weekly, often less, yet saved 1,200 dollars while supporting his family.
Report notes ongoing street grade changes in Montpelier Vermont with a sidewalk lowered eight feet below current walk level after recent work. The account highlights urban alteration patterns and engineering adjustments in city infrastructure.
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