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Newspaper
Glenboro Gazette
Location
Glenboro, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1901
Page
5
A poetic meditation on life and fate by Geman Coolidge. The text compares human lives to a single stitch in a fabric, noting how a dropped stitch disrupts the whole pattern and mars the plan God laid out for creation. It laments futile effort to alter the infinite, yet affirms sincere intent.
A 1870 South American voyage from Philadelphia to Pernambuco suffers multiple misfortunes. After losses at sea including two drownings and a captain bitten by an insect, convicts escape Cayenne aboard a convict raft. The Nonesuch, aided by the convicts and the captain's wife, reaches Cayenne and later aids the convicts before setting them ashore on the Amazon, with authorities failing to recapture any.
A young heir to wealth accepts a reporter job at a daily paper and studies humility. When a city editor sends a message through the front door, the butler hides the caller. The heir, hearing the news, proclaims I am only a reporter myself to reveal his pride.
The Century quotes Professor McMaster recalling Webster’s brief 10 day stint in the Massachusetts legislature. Webster explains that most public service linked to the general government, and he sought a worthwhile object during that brief state service.
Railroads including the Burlington Santa Fe and Southern Pacific operate plants to pickle ties. The process uses zinc chloride, with ties placed in airtight cylinders, air pumped out, heated by steam, then saturated under pressure to extend life.
An early Dawson scene recalls a hanging near a hotel after a stage arrival. A loud old man challenges the organizers over a horse theft and the timing of the execution, noting the accused asked for time to pray before being swung. The anecdote captures frontier tensions and rough justice.
An early operator explains how a 50 foot standard film can seem to occupy minutes. He describes careful rehearsal and timing for comic tricks and notes that accidental effects, like a bulldog grabbing a tramp’s coat, created a famed finale that delighted audiences worldwide.
A Washington Star quote contrasts the moral credit given to wholesome farm dramas with a confessional doubt from a former confidence man. The man with a heavy mustache warns about demoralizing effects and lingering temptations after performances.
A Baltimore crowd gathered at the postoffice as a revolving storm door sent Mrs Freely spinning in it prompting a rescue party. The townfolk watched as the device disrupted mail.
Dialogue shows a couple ending their affair with one demanding the return of letters. He agrees to send them first thing in the morning, but she retorts no rush suggesting he bring them when he calls tomorrow evening. Philadelphia Press.
A fragmented verse praises decorative bells and ribbons on a banjo and evokes a quiet nap-like pleasure. The text blends playful sounds with hints of musical delight without a clear narrative.
A New York Evening Journal piece shows Mrs McFaacde and John McFagsie discussing self defense lessons. The father intends to teach Johnny a lesson with boxing but returns injured and states the boy is now in sorrow and repentance. He decides to use a strap.
Dialogue notes a doctor calling a fracture a sprain and another doctor correcting the misdiagnosis, quoted in the Detroit Journal.
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls Ephraim and Angy driving their old cutter with Dexter the horse amid boulevard racers. The old couple squabble and cheer as the horse bucks into a lively sprint, Angy scolding Ephraim to keep quiet about the spectacle.
The Bilkins family reads a note from George promising a long visit next summer after he rents his Chicago suburb home Austin. The letter expresses eagerness to reunite and see his wife and children back in New York.
A humorous exchange from the Indianapolis Press notes a hiker’s store scene where a boy reports the family horse’s death. The elder man reacts with a pleased, joking “It pass,” then exclaims it would be “teetotally doggone.”
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