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Newspaper
Ismay
Location
Ismay, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1909
Page
2
The piece lauds Queen Alexandra of England for tireless charity despite deafness and fatigue. It praises Romania’s queen for thirty years of advocacy for the blind and Italy’s queen for devoted quake relief work and compassionate care for injured children.
Banty Burns, a brave logger, saves the passenger express by guiding a runaway engine away from the main line as a fog and frost on Goaman rail line threaten a collision. After leaping between engines and levers, he sacrifices his safety to avert disaster and is later celebrated in Raymer hospital and Duluth.
Boston Herald reports a theater usher faced a dramatic rowdy scene when a woman in the orchestra sat behind hid the stage with a large puffed hair arrangement topped by a jeweled ornament. After requests to remove it failed, the woman declared this is my own hair and it does not come off.
Census figures from Washington show lumber production valued at $666.64 million with lath and shingles adding $40.45 million and $30.11 million respectively from 28 850 mills. The year indicates a revival in building material demand.
A band of 800 Wurtemberg maidens arrives en route to Oregon seeking husbands among settlers. The writer calls this an invasion of marriageable women and warns eastern maidens to act or risk losing the western matrimonial market to foreign enterprise.
Count Cassini, once ambassador at Washington, has applied for retirement after a long 54 year career in the Russian diplomatic service. He may write an interesting book though censorship in St. Petersburg could block publication.
The piece compares Roosevelt’s action to German practices, noting the Pacific coast refuge for birds contrasts with Germany’s past extermination of several bird varieties. It references a 60 year span and critiques hunting and conservation attitudes.
Incomplete text fragment mentions timing and availability, includes garbled names and stray phrases. No clear event, person, or organization can be reliably identified from the readable content.
A former college classmate recalls Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon’s fame as a joke abroad. An artist who admired her work says he uses her name to swear, noting he once unintentionally shouted it during a windy sketching incident in England.
A New York judge praises modest justice at dinner while recounting a Dublin will contest. Judge O Brien reads a testator bequest for a farm with green marked on a plan and a heckler shouts Youre a liar prompting arrest as the thin old man claims I am the testator.
Buenos Ayres offers many hotels and pensions with prices similar to large U S cities. Heating is poor in winter, June to September, with steam heat only in corridors and rooms heated by kerosene stoves.
A Paris police station was invaded by a young woman an old man a small dog and twenty four omnibus passengers after a quarrel over the dog’s ears. The man claimed half his fortune for the dog's place and the woman retorted. The dispute drew in riders and the whole party was noted by police as the omnibus waited two hours for its conductor to return.
A fragmented call urges riders to express opinions to transit officials if cars are crowded. The piece mocks passive passenger behavior and suggests direct feedback to the operator as a civic duty.
A Black and White correspondent recalls the Duke of Connaught in Japan laughing at a complete program of sights, then an earthquake struck, prompting servants to bow and the host to call it an honorable earthquake. The anecdote ties to the Messina disaster and the duke's condolence visit to Italy.
An English regiment the Twelfth Lancers performs after the Last Post a nightly sequence of music including the Vesper hymn the Spanish chant and the Russian national hymn. The Vesper hymn originated when an officer's wife gifted new instruments on condition it be played nightly. The Spanish chant serves as penance for sacking a convent in the Peninsular war. No reason given for the Russian anthem.
A fragment from the Kansas City Times quotes a recruiter remarking on an insurance proposition. The dialogue notes a young man among thousands of agents encountered this year, hinting at the competition and varied offers in the insurance field.
A baby suffered severe facial and head burns after a grease skin product caused a scalding accident. Doctors treat the child as the incident is investigated for safety and cause.
A mother from South Shields recalls a kitchen scald accident where boiling grease burned her baby's face. After doctors and three boxes of Cuticura Ointment, the skin healed completely within five weeks with no marks, leaving the skin like velvet. The note cites Potter Drug & Chem as seller in Boston.
Bridget the cook recalls four red apples vanished from the store room after a visit from a man bringing fruit. Mrs Morse suspects nothing definite but jokes about a hidden gingerbread loaf and the child’s sturdy stomach.
A Berlin teacher published a pupil’s composition about The Kaiser. It recalls Prince Wilhelm born on the Kaiser's birthday and 101 salute shots from the castle dome. The piece humorously mentions Wrangel and a father’s bow from a balcony with a bold Hohenzollern claim.
A Washington stenographer recounts how switching to Grape Nuts and milk for breakfast cured morning lethargy and boosted her vigor for long daily shifts. She describes her prior dull mornings, then notes improved stamina after two weeks, crediting the cereal for “genial work” and strength to perform.
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