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Newspaper
Garland Globe
Location
Garland, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1906
Page
5
Courrieres in Pase dé Calais northern France near Bethune is described as a coal mining center. The district spans 190 square miles with about 20,000 workers and annual coal output around 5,000,000 tons. Coal was first found in 1717 at Tresnes and the region has long been a leading manufacturing area.
A historical summary notes Courrieres coal mines in northern France, comparing drift and shaft types, danger of fire damp pockets, and a rumored cause of a recent explosion. It describes miner lamps, casualties, and the irregular mine topography, with a contrast to Western mining practices and demographics of the workforce. It also observes the town’s gloomy appearance and lack of guidebook mention.
In a brief House session Speaker Cannon ordered the chaplain to offer prayer, then momentarily drifted to pending measures. After the prayer he returned from reverie and the chaplain was asked to pray again, prompting Uncle Joe to exclaim the joke's on me.
The St. Peters burg Novosti reports noted pathologist M Bechtereff describes a new nerve disorder he calls sweating sickness of the hand. The symptom is sudden hand perspiration when greeting an acquaintance with drops from fingertip tips, while other body parts remain unaffected.
M Jean Sarrien a longtime French cabinet figure and minister of justice in 1898 during the Dreyfus crisis. A 66 year old lawyer from a provincial family, he served in the Chamber of Deputies for thirty years and earned the Legion of Honor for gallantry in the war with Germany. English nobility pursues trade ideas and carpet weaving, with the Duchess of Setherland aiding women in Sutherlandshire. the Fay of Pembroke and the Earl of Rad hor open a Wilton carpet factory amid displays of cultivated taste and luxury.
Professor Vi J Paterson notes the stomach is not essential as other alimentary organs compensate. He cites evidence of weight gain and health after total gastrectomy in dogs and a human patient. Until a cancer cure is found, wide removal is proposed as the ideal operation.
In New Orleans a New Year eve intrigue centers on Captain Stanley and his forbidden romance with the count’s daughter Zeney. A midnight elopement plan unfolds with a hidden boat, enslaved aid, and a perilous flight toward Choctaw lands while Jean Lafitte’s shadowy past and future rise in parallel.
Old Vermonter Senator Pattison once posted bail with an old hoss that he drove to court. On a sultry day the judge eyed the slow proceedings and quipped that bail for the day ended. The defendant’s old boss suddenly dropped dead in the square, adjournment followed.
A Northern traveler seeks crossing in Georgia and hires a local guide named Sambo. The guide denies rows then ferries the man in a punt. The traveler demands why the guide lied, and Sambo replies he misunderstood the traveler’s request to show the boat was not rowable. The exchange ends with a pun on the word horse.
At the University of Maine Prof Gowell’s Plymouth Rack hen attracts visitors for a unusual trait. The bird is credited with laying exactly 251 eggs in the past year, drawing attention not for looks but for exceptional productivity.
Two medical students in San Francisco asked a Weat Berkeley tanning company president to prepare human skin. They showed two skin pieces taken from a dissecting room and planned to make alip pers of the skin. The commission refused and similar approaches by embryo physicians were alleged as skin articles traveled nationwide.
December 26 1901 document in poor handwriting wrote of home stead and children winnings. J B Armstrong left said stock and bets to Margaret Armstrong of Waurika Oklahoma Territory. Probate Judge Glenn admitted the will to probate after determining it met all requirements.
A curious ethnographic note describes Tahitians, among the Society Islands in the South Pacific, using the nose to imitate the Mute instrument rather than the mouth, highlighting a distinctive vocal practice observed in that region.
York correspondence reports Clarence Douglass of Rew Lion lost a pet fox and his child Nettle Fox to diphtheria. The fox, once the girl’s companion, grew distressed after she fell ill and died two days after Nettle. The family mourns the unusual bond and simultaneous deaths.
A flag Fremont unfurled atop the Rockies in 1841 lies in a Red ding California bank vault. Made with Mrs Fremonts hands before her husband began his western expedition it differs from the U S standard in the field where an American eagle with twenty stars is hand wrought in gold braid.
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