29 Sep 1905
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Newspaper
Galena Tribune
Location
Galena, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1905
Page
2
A nostalgic poem reflecting on long past love and youth. The speaker asks a beloved to sing and reminisce about dear old days, friends, and sunny June memories. It evokes aging yet cherished feelings, promising a lullaby that soothes the heart.
Reports from across the United States show eight hour day gains for Salt Lake printers and Boston carpenters seeking higher pay. New York and Chicago workers pursue wage increases, while Norwegian printers form a national union. International unions discuss lead poisoning prizes and the rise of immigrant labor in national Federation plans.
A Long Island storekeeper buys a city horse condemned by a department store. It adapts to autos in New York yet misbehaves when confronted with cows, prompting a return to pav ing stones as cows outnumber vehicles. The tale contrasts city nags with rural work.
A vintage milkman on a horse climbs a suburb hill as a modern touring car behind him honks. The car’s tire bursts after two hundred feet, its driver deriding the antique team. The milkman ignores the setback, clucks his horse, rings his milk bell thrice, and continues on his way.
A New York Sun quotation notes telephone users reveal private affairs aloud. A telephone girl recounts how adults discuss last night’s actions and names, risking exposure as they mistake private calls for secure conversations.
The Boston Herald recounts Prof J K Paine of Harvard being seen after a grand opera performance at the Boston theater. During intermission he went to a pharmacy for a prescription, took a car home, changed into a dressing gown and slippers, and sat in his library to read while his wife arrived later by carriage.
A Bulawayo legend among natives in South Africa describes the moon as having two wives. At first quarter he visits the well treated wife Keep-the-Door-Open, grows fat and full. On return he endures hunger and neglect from Shut-the-Door-Tight, growing thin before resuming travels.
Maurice Baring writes to the London Sphere that Paradise Lost is seen by Russian peasants as a sacred fairy tale with scriptural gravitas. He notes Russians compare it to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and are drawn by its perceived truth and fairy tale appeal to children.
A Western News paragraph denounces extremes of violence while noting Irish readers could respond with collective unease. The author contrasts robbery and homicide with the absurdity of dying on demand, highlighting stubborn Irish resolve and wary public emotion.
A district visitor praises practical thrift by aiding a child wearing his grandmother’s spectacles. She laments the boy’s lack of vision yet is stopped when the mother clarifies the glasses belong to Billy’s grandmother and the child merely pretends to read.
Canadian papers praise George E Mack as Li in San Toy and Leslie Leigh with Mattie Martz reengaged for The Isle of Spice. Ellen Terry to appear at Court London in Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion early 1906. Evangeline Dixey joins Yorkville Theater stock. John Barrymore to support Ethel in Sunday. The Heir to the Hoorah and Sunday reflect American British mining life contrasts. Excerpts note other stars and productions including The Labyrinth and The Bart and the Tart.
A roundup of theater and film figures including Edgar Davenport noted for many roles starting with a child part in Pizarro with his father E I Davenport. Colin Campbell likened to Sol Smith Russell in The Heir to the Hoorah. Bijou Hopkins praised beside Valerie Bergere for impersonations of a female Japanese. Marie Dressler welcomed in New York. Henrietta Crosman opens in Mary Mary Quite Contrary in Troy. Bjornson's Daglannet staged in Christiania with author in charge. Sothern and Marlowe open in Cleveland with Merchant of Venice Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night. Margaret Pitt highlighted in Faith Mother at the Park. George Ade curates Out of College. Hopper in Happyland with Wang as side piece. El Capitan foundry foreman testimony yields satirical defense by Mike.
Comedian Jess Dandy riffs on Shakespeare and alliteration using P as a thread. He cites numerous plays and titles such as Prince of Pilsen and Pirates of Penzance to illustrate how many works feature the letter P in playful lists.
The London apprentices favored wrestling for centuries with annual St Bartholomew’s Day tournaments on Clerkenwell Fields. Lords Mayor and Sheriffs presided as judges, sometimes provoking fierce clashes, such as in 1456 when an archery-based dispute led to the Lord Mayor’s cap being pierced and a citizen surge to rescue him.
The St Louis Globe Democrat explains the phrase not worth his salt as a linked chain from salarium to salary. It traces salt payments to Roman workers to tips for odd jobs and finally to modern wages. The piece highlights how salt money shaped the word salary and the expression’s meaning.
A former resident recalls life in Bulawayo with scarce milk and eggs, frozen meat and Australian butter as rare luxuries. He notes hospital purchases milk, small bottles costing 3 shillings, eggs at least 3 shillings a dozen, and lump sugar at 8 pence a pound, explaining that bare necessities left no room for amusements despite claims of high pay.
Deep sea denizens in northern waters are noted for their migratory habits especially the herring. They spawn near Newfoundland shores then depart to distant waters. Prof. Spencer T. Baird once tried to locate the herring home with no success. Newfoundland hires a Scottish fishery expert to pursue a similar search.
The mackerel fishery has been nearly extinct in Newfoundland waters for 25 years due to migration to the American seaboard. Historically, over 1,000 vessels from various nations fished there, a larger enterprise than cod fishing. If mackerel return, much of the New England industry could shift to Newfoundland waters.
About sixteen months before his death at age 101, Senator David Wark of Fredericton described his simple meals. He started with oatmeal porridge and milk for breakfast with plain bread and black tea, avoided beef mutton and pork for years, ate a small fish or fowl at 1 PM with tea, and had bread with tea for dinner. He avoided pie and pudding and drank no alcohol.
A practical tip from a historical note suggests brisk walking in fresh air helps weary minds more than drugs. It also recommends a calf raising routine with slow rises to the toes and vigorous kicking, repeated several times for better results.
The apple has fed humans longer than any other fruit. Lake dwellers in Switzerland preserved apples by halving and sun drying them. Remnants of these sun dried apples, large and uncultivated, were found among ruined island dwellings of ancient lake dwellers.
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