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Newspaper
Golden Valley Chronicle
Location
Beach, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1908
Page
2
A man on an elevated railroad platform remarks on crowds gathered around two wagons in a collision scene below. He contrasts the patience of the crowd with the frantic haste of commuters chasing trains, and ponders human behavior amid danger and spectacle. He notes the urge to hurry, then questions why fear and urgency grip people in some moments more than in others.
A French journal recalls General Canrobert’s remark about staff officers being killed in the Arabian campaign. He explained he survived because his full dress uniform and medals made him a clear target. The piece notes Moroccans are now sharper marksmen, as shown against French troops.
A group of boys near Albert Hackett’s farm north of the village found a pheasant nest with thirteen eggs. They checked the nest daily until a crow was spotted at the site. The crow had punctured every egg, sucking out contents and leaving only shells.
The article notes horses thrive on fruits beyond grain. Egyptian khe dive mares feed on currants for endurance and speed, Smyrna uses figs during harvest, Smyrna horses switch from oats or hay. Sugar cane greens feed Western horses, windfall apples sustain Canadian horses, and Tasmanian and Arabian horses replace hay with dates.
The piece notes Greenland as the birthplace of almost all icebergs feared by mariners. It compares Greenland's vast size to New York State, 47,000 square miles, and explains glaciers move away from Greenland's center, crowding icebergs into the sea.
A seven foot two and a half inch blacksnake was captured Sunday morning around Brownell reservoir in Lackawanna county by Carbondale pedestrian club members. The snake was initially in the water and was easily taken from the pool and placed in a basket.
The duchess is noted as the most popular German royal lady, famed for aiding the sick poor. Philip of Württemberg has devised a scientifically engineered bandage now patenting for foreign manufacture.
A sensational report describes the 1890s slaughter of trader O Metzke on Manus Island in the Admiralty group. Cannibal natives attacked, killed, and roasted him on a fire while his laborers perished or fled. The incident sparked a government expedition but cannibalism persisted in the islands.
Dialogue in a brief exchange records a testy moment where one speaker repeats a snappy line, declaring the other “a nightmare.” The vignette captures a terse clash over interpretation and memory.
Poem reflecting on oil wealth vs whisky, urging Rockefeller to regret not embracing spirits industry. Mentions U S oil production value 84 011 327 dollars and Saigon spirits 150 118 187 dollars, contrasting imagined gains with actual fortune. Note appears from World. author W W Lampton.
A St Paul man recalls a German mill proprietor who burned lumber scraps as fuel, noting the new machinery cut fuel needs yet required more workers. A cook defends her improvised coffee mix as one quarter mocha one quarter java one quarter rio, but quarters are missing. A London guard saves a man from a moving train, then the man returns to save the guard’s life. A minister and young man discuss worship, the groom boasts honesty in a marriage oath, and a professor vents at a student who says he “has his father’s” notes.
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