10 Dec 1904
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Newspaper
Ironwood Times
Location
Ironwood, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1904
Page
1
In a dreamlike scene the narrator confronts a iron portal with two bolts named Sorrow and Pain. Through the gate he moves into a shadowed realm where two red, misty lights symbolize Blood and Wounds. The passage ends with emergence into a realm labeled Lover as described in a Lodgings-like magazine entry.
A bayman Crayfish Bill recalls building a two month, 12 by 12 foot wooden house on Ruffle Bar four miles from shore. He sunk eight inch piles, towed them, and laid beams, joists, and tarred paper roof. A nor’easter, rising tides, and ice floes swept the structure away in March after August completion, with Bill and his three cats surviving in a duckboat. He saved four piles and a pickle jar full of coins from the wreck.
In a tale from Stray Stories a merchant named Bulteel receives a strange invoice marked with compliments. The customer later closes the account for flagrant discourtesy after the lad replaces compliments with without compliments. The mix up leads to astonishment and confusion.
A Chicago Daily News note recalls a severe seasickness incident aboard a voyage from Honolulu. A man who had never been seasick before consumed poi raw fish and champagne after a farewell luau, leading to an extreme bout of illness. friends cheered him with leis and champagne poured around his neck, alarming even the ship's surgeon.
An aged clergyman with silvery hair faced a surge of requests from young ladies for a lock of his hair. The notes showed respectful sentiment, but his wife received a letter asking her to obtain the lock, citing difficulty in securing white hair for a valley’s needs.
A London report praises the Royal College and Academy for the Blind at Upper Norwood for its exceptional gymnasium program. Blind students train in mass and apparatus work plus cycling, rowing, swimming and roller skating to develop health and physical vigor, with demonstrations at Crystal Palace showcasing advanced skill.
On a raw gusty day, Greece's wood nymphs shiver yet mock the idea of altered attire for mural decoration in American millionaire homes. They laugh at the notion, claiming nothing could improve fidelity to a dire destiny, chanting Puck’s quip.
Immigration inspectors report to Washington that almshouses and similar charities in nearly every state harbor a large percentage of allana. These individuals are sent to the United States because they receive better treatment here than in comparable European institutions.
A brief TinBits note states Lloyd's Bank in Wolverhampton holds a license to sell beer. The item describes a financial privilege linked to the bank's beverage license. No further details are given.
A Philadelphia millionaire maintains a country club for training fighting cocks. In a basement rockpit the trainer weighs birds, exercises them on a springboard, massages muscles, tosses them onto a mattress, and checks temperature. Feathers are trimmed, spurs fitted, and dopes injected with a hypodermic syringe.
The article discusses beriberi as a deadly disease among rice eaters in wartime ranks, noting its impact on the milkado and Oyama forces. It explains beriberi as a non elimination disease with uric acid buildup, beginning with rheumatic symptoms and progressing to paralysis and loss of sensation, potentially reaching the heart.
Fortune from Trees in Sweden has grown into a major commercial wealth, selling £1,150,000 worth of timber over a generation. Wise replanting ensures a similar income every 30 to 40 years, reducing taxes as railways telephones and many other services emerge as actual assets.
Fragmentary item notes a widow, a gentleman, and a flattered Gent. A playful line recalls a daughter joking about pleasing her father with a suitor. The passage preserves 19th century social banter and names Gent and Muller.
A fragment notes that the trees of Finland are the people’s money bags, with a peasant mending shoes from birch bark and roofing with slaylugs. It hints at wood as a source of wealth and daily ingenuity in rural practice.
Reverend W A Denton of Girard Kansas recounts his wife’s fifteen year struggle with chronic illness after childbirth. She found relief with Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, reporting better sleep, less dizziness, swelling reduction, and regained vitality. The pills, touted as a blood restoring remedy, are sold in boxes or six for two dollars fifty, from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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