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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1905
Page
3
A lament recounts a family driven from a moor cabin by famine and plague. The speaker questions grace for rent owed and curses the emptiness of their wretched home. Widowed and orphaned, they wander the road, asking where their bones will lie as one already lies with God.
An ornery exchange man and a Republican associate editor in Kansas City clue each other in on politics but compete over tobacconists. A West Ninth Street dealer gifts a briar pipe with amber bit. Rubbed with camphor cream, the bit fools the buyer into doubting amber. the joke unravels as the dealer realizes the scam and blocks further invoices.
Chicago mayor recounted meeting a Birmingham man impressed by an American named Roberts. The Birmingham man had met Roberts briefly during a walking tour in the Trossachs, learned he lived in a Texas town, and kept company with him for three days.
A friend visited painter George Inness and found a new painting superior to some older works. Inness explained that breaking his right arm forced him to paint with his left hand, which he said was less clever and kept him from overworking the canvas.
A clothier cites ready made clothes showing fourteen year olds with chest measurements of 37 and 38 inches, remarking that athletic culture makes youths of today as big as eighteen year olds of a few years ago. He notes schools emphasize physical culture and sports, warning tailors about shrinking markets at lad size prices.
Senator Proctor and ex-Representative J. Ham Lewis spoke in Washington with Col. Lewis quipping about marble from Vermont quarries used for maple sugar. Proctor recalled a railroad joke about a Maine or Vermont passenger aiding a lady with spruce gum and maple sugar mix, highlighting regional patriotism.
A memo notes merchants in Rouen on Oct 1 1570 agreeing to freight the vessel Le Samson with white cloth for Santa Cruz de Agadhir Morocco. The ship returned laden with sugar from Taradant near Maghreb, where sugar then grew. A Berber’s crude experiment with Mogador sugar yields a playful remark about sweetness.
The Journal condemns excessive glare from six lamp setups on heavy touring cars. It argues that bright searchlights at night blind oncoming drivers and endanger safety. Speed demands visibility, yet such lighting creates peril for those in opposing traffic.
Ruins near Ipsambool Nubia are described as the world’s oldest stone temples. The rock cut complex on the Nile bank features a main temple with a 57 by 52 by 19 foot block, two rows of 30 foot pilasters bearing colossal figures, and four seated colossal statues outside. Estimated age about 4,000 years.
A poetic meditation on loss and endurance. The speaker recalls stripped dreams and a doomed journey, then finds inner refuge as morning brings marvel and spring. The contrast of harsh travel and hopeful renewal appears through imagery of night frost, dew, and a steadfast heart.
Sea urchins or sea eggs use tubular feet that protrude from small holes in segmented surfaces. The spines provide protection while these feet inflate from suckers at the rear to push the animal forward and allow movement in any direction.
A boy holding a candle near his master, a plumber, ignited the hair on the man's head as he repaired a pipe. The master scolded him, calling him a stupid idiot, while the boy quipped that onlookers might think they burned a sheep's head.
The first patent granted by China was issued to a Nanking citizen for an electric incandescent lamp said to improve on foreign bulbs used in Shanghai and other cities. The inventor, calling it the clear moonlight electric lamp, presented it to the mayor who forwarded a memorial to the viceroy requesting protection from interference and competition in production and sale.
A short extract from A Journal of Pleasant Days London 1789 recounts a fishing outing with Abercrombie. Returning late, his wife accused the narrator of leading him to drunkenness, and he fled in embarrassment. The line hints at social tensions and humor from late 18th century London.
The Monroe tablet was unveiled on April 15 at the old Gouverneur home at Prince and Marion streets New York. The bronze marker recalls James Monroe's life, the Monroe Doctrine and his late months in the city before dying in 1831. Master Gouverneur Hoes, 11, unveiled the tablet in a ceremony with flags, a Governor's Island band, and speeches. The building, now used as a kosher restaurant and carpenter shop, will permanently display the tablet, with plans to move it if the house is torn down.
A Texas sheriff, Cooper Wright, faced a mob aiming to lynch Stegall for murder. He escaped by leaping from a second floor window and drawing a pistol as he cut the rope and restrained the mob. Wright escorted Stegall back to jail and had him sentenced to life. Stegall has since died.
A Country Life in America piece critiques fancy pigeons as artificial, stressing beauty as disability and uselessness. It describes fanciers shaping birds through abnormal environments and massage to win blue ribbons, showcasing a hallucinatory loft of decadent pigeon types and distorted traits.
A vivid, caustic passage compares a line of equipment to a blind jacobin and a half blind trumpeter, condemning the birds as diseased in their view of life. The author then degrades the described birds as manufactured invalids, asserting the common sparrow surpasses them in vulgarity.
Major Leffingwell confronts Col. Dwyer about a supposed $5 loan on July Fourth 1863. Dwyer denies any such remark, noting only that they supported their side at Gettysburg and could not ask for the loan. The men end the exchange agreeing to have a drink.
An Irish orderly in New Orleans on Canal Street near the Henry Clay statue mistakes it for a person and asks to examine it closely. Butler explains it is the celebrated Clay statue not a negro. The orderly later reports that the statue is actually made of iron, not clay.
Prof. Blerwith of Harvard, supervising German instructor, encounters two freshmen taunting a large block of ice tied with a rope at 9:30 PM on their dorm stairs. They explain they intend to use it to cool beer despite the late hour.
C Lewis Gable of 814 West Allegheny avenue has been appointed private secretary to the chief of the engineering staff of the Panama Canal commission. Born in Shenandoah on December 28, 1882, he moved to Philadelphia in 1902 after working as a breaker boy. He later pursued stenography classes at Temple College, graduated, and, after excelling in the civil service exam, secured the Panama Canal engineering staff secretary position on March 24.
A Streatham wife challenged a Bloomsbury court ruling over an Oxford Street drapers bill saying it covered necessities for which her husband was responsible. Judge Bacon declared many items, including the hat priced at 9.99 and gloves, as extravagances rather than necessities and ordered her to pay the bill.
A London World quotation argues that a married woman must compete for attention and influence, shaping her appearance to appeal to men and to remain popular. It asserts married women dominate politics, the army, literature, and the stage, and urges endless attention to fashion and beauty to stay attractive.
In Harper's May issue Dr. Henry C. McCook recounts how huntress wasps capture spiders, anesthetize them with a sting, and seal them in tubes to feed their larvae. The preserved spiders stay alive briefly, providing fresh meat, while tarantulas fall to these formidable wasps.
Pertinent Query reports Rev Henry C McCook of Philadelphia recounts a Scotch deserter who left the Presbyterian church and became independent. The pastor Christianizes the anecdote with a quip about a rolling stone gathering no moss and the moss’s meaning to the stone.
The Independent notes the Jewish community marks a 250th anniversary of its settlement in New York. The piece reflects on resilience and continuity, invoking a positive outlook as years pass. It frames the milestone as a historical backstop for communal growth and identity.
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