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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1905
Page
2
A verseal fragment laments a lost era of greatness and certainty. It questions the legacy of Caesar Nero Bacon Shakespeare and Homer, mocks famed figures as myths, and warns future critics may deny our past glories. The speaker doubts enduring cultural pillars and wonders about the value of hopes and dreams.
A Hull couple’s perilous voyage in a coasting schooner ends in a desperate escape from a sinking vessel. Plunged into a gale, the Two Brothers is abandoned and the wife is rescued by a nearby schooner. They endure hours of baleing and freezing spray before a brig named Susannah plucks them to safety, while the crew fights to keep the ship afloat near Yarmouth Harbor. The story follows their return home, the fate of the crew, and a final encounter with a surviving deckhand who later finds aid in Christiania.
The First Royal Fusiliers, London’s own regiment, arrived home after twenty one years abroad. Latest duty included service with the Thibetan expedition. They march through city streets with fixed bayonets for a ceremonial display.
Poem contemplates reunion with a loved one after death. The speaker questions if their bond survives beyond the grave, seeking the same beloved name, eyes, and heart in heaven. He longs for guidance in the afterlife to learn love as true wisdom and be a fitting companion in bliss.
Chicago man criticizes New York traits in a cafe discussion aboard a French liner. Mark Twain cites how grace and style fade with distance, noting educated eyes still see New Yorkers as distinct. A cosmopolitan group debates grace, snap, and confidence attributed to New Yorkers versus provincial dress.
Miss Violet Oakley of Philadelphia area recalls a witty ruse told by a friend. An elderly country uncle visiting for tea complains a knife tastes soapy, then a second knife repeats the claim, prompting the host to suggest using a fork, revealing the servants’ carelessness.
A medical demonstrator, Dr Doane, praised a patient’s unusually large carbuncle at a clinic with flamboyant remarks describing it as perfect and magnificent. The patient protested, others laughed, and the doctor called the man an ingrate, delivering a line attributed to the New York Times.
A girl describes using a machine to create cheek dimples instead of surgical knife work. The device acts during sleep to weaken a tiny facial muscle, supposedly producing a dimple within two months, according to The Chicago Chronicle.
A publisher rejects a passerby’s manuscript calling it unpublishable. The would be author explains he’s a barber earning $12, told $14 as a writer, and plans to resume shaving duties, inviting readers to try his work if they seek a good shave.
Chicago hunters who went to the Illinois prairie to kill rabbits return empty handed saying the bunnies are gone. An old farmer cites an epidemic years ago and increasing settlement as reasons. He calls the state’s rabbit situation a poor excuse for a sportsman’s paradise.
A dark, prophetic poem marching through battle imagery. Voices boast of hunger for war’s feast, praising old conquerors and banners, with ominous lines about death, smoke, and the legions that never forget. The speaker claims ancestral power and eternal vigilance over battle’s throne.
Edwin Markham critiques rulers and war through a storm of historical allegory praising and scorning leaders. The poem evokes Europe, Troy, Carthage, Rome, Timour, France, Austerlitz, and Bastille, ending with a bitter glare at kings and their ambitions.
The Chicago News notes months of German Southwest Africa unrest with Herero and Hottentot revolts. It cites German officials’ harsh measures, white fears of wider black uprisings, and reports of massacres and barbarities. The vast, arid colony holds about 200,000 people, only 4,000 white settlers, and Germany has spent millions to quell the revolt.
Workmen uncover a circular Aztec monolith nearly four feet wide and two and a half feet high. Authorities await discovery of its mate, believed to lie within about forty feet, before moving the stone to the National Museum. The relic bears serpents and birds reliefs, shows heating damage, and lacks hieroglyphs except for its iconography. The find is dated to the dynasty that used stones to torture and sacrifice captives.
A correspondent notes Rhodes scholars at Oxford, dubbed Rhodians, bring thorough work and a blend of study and play. They mingle in athletics, cross country, rugby, and social life, spreading unity without cliques while potentially reshaping undergraduate life over the coming decade.
Readers chose six guiding sayings about living well. Key themes include making a life not just a living, personal will, late emergence of potential, virtue in small acts, charity and open-mindedness, and balanced honesty and frugality to foster happiness and integrity.
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