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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1905
Page
3
A collage of old column items describes homemade twirlers for spinning objects, with door‑hanger and cart methods, plus notes on tricks of animals such as possums, hedgehogs, starfish, and the land tortoise. It blends toy-building instructions with natural history curiosities and quirky anecdotes.
A long段 segment describes children quarreling over a doll dress and scissors then a parent intervenes. It then explains games like Bird Sellers and Nine Men's Morris with play rules. An arithmetic riddle asks how many apples are found after a trek for May flowers and ends with fashion notes on skirts and openwork lawn.
A description of Alphabet Trips, a mime like parlor game for groups. players sit around a leader and announce journeys and actions, with every word in each answer starting with the same initial letter. examples include Athens to advertise athletics and Boston to buy baked beans, illustrating quick witted replies and possible prizes.
A historical excerpt advises careful letter writing and proper etiquette. It warns against writing on torn sheets, using lead pencils, sealing introductions, and failing to include stamps. It emphasizes clear spelling punctuation and neatness, suggesting new copies when needed.
The article describes the game Sniff using dominoes for three to seven players, with four or five optimal and four as partners. It explains dealing seven or five dominoes, building from ends, scoring by counting pips, and a 250 point game, plus a left handed contest with various performances. It also sketches a brief peace problem involving Nellie and Dorothy over sewing a doll dress.
A garbled text puzzle describes poor men with land by a lake and rich men building a wall. The reading mentions figures 1 and 2 and asks to determine the shape before looting figure 2. The passage is ambiguous with many misread words and incomplete phrases.
The Bingville Bugle reports Hen Wilson has again left his wife Sary Ann amid repeated marital strife. Past episodes included a rolling pin injury and a lengthy absence. The current tale centers on Wilson sitting on a newly finished sofa pillow, prompting Mrs. Wilson to claim he misunderstood its use as a seat. His whereabouts are unknown.
The London Outlook recounts an intimate scene with John Ruskin, addressing a female artist sketching his Brantwood home, inviting her to meet him. He then guides her inside, reciting lines about death and beauty from Byron, linking Ruskin’s gentle courtesy with literary reverie.
A prim girl named Margaret Brown visits a country house with a large dog. Despite warnings, she performs a dancing school courtesy and introduces herself to the dog. The dog responds warmly, wagging its tail as she pets it.
At Daly's theater in London on July 11 the hydraulic system controlling the asbestos curtain failed and the curtain descended during the show. After half an hour of failed attempts to raise it, the audience was dismissed and entrance fees refunded.
A memory prodder attaches to watches rings spectacles or chains to curb forgetfulness. The device uses a wire ring style derived from garters to hold notes and reminders in a discreet form.
Two recent patents illustrate ideas to aid timekeeping and memo writing. One design fits any finger and provides space for notations on execution details. Another attachment fits the watch case to expose a round memorandum disc on the stem for daily consultation.
John Flockhart of South Chicago narrowly escaped death after being run over by a switch engine and five cars in the Big Four yards at Kankakee. He fell before the moving train while attempting to retrieve a blown hat, suffered a crushed right arm and head cuts, and had his right foot heel torn off. Hospitalized, he credits a miraculous break in the sequence for his survival as railroad workers marvel at the near-miss.
A Brynn University professor claims to have rediscovered the Greeks secret for imperishable mortar. He built a yellow liquid compound said to double stone density and render it water impervious and germicidal, promising enduring results for metals and stone alike. Also reported a battle between a bulldog and a rattlesnake in South Canaan, where the dog attacked the snake, killed it, but died from its bites. The story notes the dry weather driving reptiles to lower areas.
Ralph Langdon driving a stage between Great Barington and Montérey noticed a rattlesnake strike at his team near Three Mile Hill. He killed the reptile with a whip after a hard fight. The snake measured four feet eleven inches and had twelve rattles.
The report highlights fifteen years of stable revenue enabling the New South Wales government to cut the public debt by £400,000 and reduce the floating debt by £100,000 while preserving a substantial reserve.
Fragmentary report notes automobiles and motorcycles facing fragility in England. Text mentions a collapse tied to delicate mechanisms failing and disruptions in use. References Britain’s butter output and a claimed 90,000 tons prepared in Great Belt? Beltqlt appears garbled.
A summary of Lycurgus’s iron currency plan to curb greed in Lacedaemon. Histories note iron money, heavy and brittle, with low value per weight to deter hoarding. Contrasting quotes explain how big sums required oxen and rooms to transport, aiming to suppress avarice and restrict foreign trade.
A writer describes ancient use of coal or bituminous shale from Purbeck as money. Roman lathes produced disk shaped beads and armlets later found buried with pottery or stones. Disks, 1.75 to 2.5 inches wide and half an inch thick, with mandrel holes, likely served as tally sticks or early currency.
The article traces dog days as a summer period tied to the heliacal rising of Sirius, noting varying start dates from July 3 to August 15 and durations from 30 to 50 days. It cites Hippocrates, mentions Egyptian and Ethiopian beliefs, and explains terms like dies canicularis and canicular year, with Sirius rising linked to Nile flooding and heat.
William Garrott Brown argues in the Atlantic that American history feels harsher and more masculine than European scenes of tragedy. He contrasts the frontier life with European monarchs and praises Lincoln as emancipator while noting the limited outward experience of frontier America.
Tom Nason from Bonny Engle Maine recalls asking for 7i cents to buy a quart of rum to “keep Fourth of July” and his grandfather’s retort prompts the quip about keeping the holiday on a pint. The exchange underscores a humorous moral about how to observe a holiday.
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