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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1905
Page
2
An ex ranger discusses how cowboys avoid hip pocket guns in favor of holsters and shoulder carry. He notes practical access, safer concealment, and quick draw while criticizing visible weapon displays.
The private owners offer a public way to Green Hill grave of Major Pierre Charles L’Infant, the engineer credited with Washington’s “City of Magnificent Distances.” The New York Sun notes his small government reward and later charity reliance. Congress may be asked to appropriate $500 for a monument.
The total reward of L'Infant will be not to exceed $2,500 for laying out the nation’s capital, a sum that many architects and engineers today would not regard as sufficient compensation for planning a twenty-five-acre country place.
The note recalls George Meredith finishing a modest home while his novels depict grand castles. A visitor balks at the small house, prompting Meredith to quip that words are cheaper than stones, reflecting his witty view on literary scale.
Mrs Annie L Zimmerman serves as surgeon in chief to wax figures in shop windows of Minneapolis and also works as a taxidermist. She balances delicate repair of wax figures with mounting elk heads and other heavy animal work, supervising male assistants while maintaining mastery in both professions.
A Success Magazine comparison describes US pig iron output as creating a column twice the Eiffel Tower in height and width. Rails from the iron would form a single rail eighty one feet wide at the base and a mile and a fifth long. Coke would yield a 400 foot square by 6,500 feet high column, and limestone would create a 200 foot square by 5,500 feet high column.
A Rhymney South Wales man declares a spectral figure haunts the Salvation Army barracks. The tall yellow clad woman with ghastly face allegedly wanders the building, startling the young women officers who report rustling sounds and a felt arm across a bed.
Captain Frederick Muller of the Rough Riders' association critiques a sea captain's arrogance in Santa Fe. He recalls a friend cleverly outwitting the sour fellow by turning a gruff reply into a humorous error, showing wit over blunt rudeness.
A Western vignette set near Evan’s shack where a quirt and a rawhide strip conceal a deadly secret. Sterling arrives on horseback, betrays a wife’s loneliness, and a violent act leaves a red steal across his face as Evan tends sheep and profits. The Chicago Evening Post presents a grim, morally charged scene of betrayal and consequence.
Philadelphia’s Charles J Schoen, hailed as the father of the pressed steel industry, began as a cooper in a small shop near St John and Buttonwood streets. He invented a railroad car doorstop, whose popularity spurred mass production in steel. The process expanded to make entire freight cars without wood, transforming manufacturing and rail equipment.
Pottery students and collectors find charm in old wares. Micah Salt of Buxton, England, has gathered eleven vessels illustrating bear-baiting bull-fighting and cock fighting dating to the seventeenth century. The pieces are drinking vessels with muzzled bears, and cock figures in Asbury Wood style, yellowish white shaded with brown and black eyes.
The speaker contemplates lineage and identity, claiming kinship with forebears through blood and bloodlines. She questions personal merit versus ancestral deeds, noting saints, warriors, and braveries of ancestors while seeking patience for praise. An excerpt from Grace Duffield Goodwin published in the Independent.
On the wedding day uninvited guests may inspect the bride and mock her. A man may ask for tea and praise or scorn her depending on her obedience. If she sulks, she is insulted as a tartar. Finally she may be made to stand on an inverted cup to show foot size.
Julia Ward Howe recounts Harriet Beecher Stowe in a Reader Magazine piece, describing Stowe visiting a Florida villa with a fur tippet, seated by a fire in quiet thought. The anecdote recalls a guest sharing a dangerous experience, and Stowe asks if the woman survived, prompting a restrained reaction.
A Germantown child’s theater praise sparked family debate after he described a saucer as “the same thing as a sorceress, only it’s a man.” The Philadelphia Record recounts the boy’s unfiltered challenge to adult notions of gender in a playful, reflective note.
An old Philadelphia Telegraph tale recalls two goats and a bull to argue animals think. After a fence line clash, the white goat defeats the bull, then negotiates a truce with the black neighbor goat. The episode is offered as evidence that animals can plan and conspire.
The Father of Ten John J. Coughlin of the First Ward endorses Judge Dunne as certain to win. He denounces municipal ownership and champions home production with a fatherly line about children, mothers, and milk. The Chicago Post notes the parallel to Teddy Roosevelt and a kinder garten plank.
A New Haven gardener notes nutmeg trees are rare in the area and describes the tree’s maturity at ten years, bearing until ninety, with apricot-like fruit revealing a black nutmeg at ripeness. The nutmeg is dried slowly for up to two months and steeped in sea water before shipping to deter insects, which it fears little else.
The Arizona Republican reports Mr. Finch received a black eye, patched nose, and bruised cheek while doctoring a horse’s hind foot. As he held the hoof, the horse kicked, striking his face with a sharp hoof edge. A doctor said no bones were broken, but a sore face will linger several days.
A plain green cartridge paper forms the base for a nursery wall covering. Figures of children from the Kate Greenaway order are pasted at intervals, cut from special paper. A deep frieze of jolly cats adorns the top, looking down over the wall. The concept of decorating a plain background with suitable pictures for a child's room is worth pursuing.
A New York man who died at 104 shared a century long breakfast habit of coffee and doughnuts or crullers, followed by a tobacco pipe. Diet reformers may claim the coffee and tobacco shortened his life, though he lived past a century.
A red haired youth recalls a vivid example from a Live Topic in the New York Sun about absent minded men. A man lighting a cigar on a car platform uses a silver match safe and when the cigar is lit he discards the box but folds the wax match and pockets it.
A theological student urged by young ladies to join a quad rille declines and asks a nearby woman if a man who hopes to fill the pulpit should dance. The response: I don’t see why not if he has grace for both.
Gil Keithline, a farmer roars against hay trusts. He arrives with the town’s only load of hay, triggering a price spike from seven dollars fifty cents to eight dollars per ton in Atchison.
A short verse by John Vance Cheney echoes under the Sacred Tree as three sisters named Love and Hope and Memory sing softly. The stanza links sunset, moonrise, and starlit skies to a timeless evensong.
The Nile leads world rivers at about 4000 miles, followed by Asia's Yangtze Kiang at 3160 miles and America's Mississippi Missouri at 3656 miles. Europe lists the Volga at 2114 miles and Australia the Murray at 2860 miles. The Thames is noted as the shortest important river at around 215 miles.
English writer Hodgson questions salmon fasting in freshwater and suggests they attack a wounded fish out of instinct to strike at a crippled prey rather than due to hunger. The observation reflects naturalist reasoning on salmon behavior and predatory impulse.
British Medical Association investigations show average ages for drinker groups: total abstainers 51 years 22 days, drunkards 53 years 3 days, habitually temperate 63 years 13 days. The data highlights longer life expectancy among temperate individuals and shorter spans for alcohol-dependent groups.
The northern icebergs, though smaller and fewer than southern ones, rise tall with elegant spires and domes. When sunlight hits them they appear like a fairy city in frozen seas.
Sweet oil refers to olive oil though much marketed as olive oil may come from cotton seed. The term sweet oil denotes a low grade olive oil.
A subscriber complained his paper was damp and the editor replied that perhaps it was due to so much due on it. The exchange highlights a humorous mishap over unpaid subscriptions and paper condition.
In a witty remark the author notes that widows attract much attention yet face marriage hurdles because men balk at paying a high price for shop-worn goods. The analogy suggests social attitudes toward widows and marriage markets.
Muir Glacier in Alaska is the largest in the world, comparable in area to all the Alps combined, covering about 1,500 square miles.
The Crystal Palace, famed as the world’s largest building, will accommodate up to 100000 people, surpassing all other structures in capacity and prominence.
A note from Troy Kansas reports that when another visits her daughter she always takes her kitchen apron indicating practical habit or household routine observed in the locality.
The hottest month for the ocean is August and the coldest is February. This summary notes the extremes in sea temperatures across the year.
A collection of short anecdotes and humorous vignettes recalls figures from politics medicine and letters. J Wynne the postmaster general narrates a boy at a party who declines candy after multiple treats while other stories feature Congressman dinners a fielding misread notes and a toylike gag about a Japanese artifact and a meat pot joke in Berlin.
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