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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1908
Page
13
A garden scene unfolds with Freck laboring in Queenie's backyard to prepare a vegetable bed. He compares it to quarry work, jokes about his efforts, and is praised by Queenie and her mother, who admires his strength and service.
A humorous tale recalls a man digging in darkness aided by a coal oil lamp left in a mitt by Freck and Queenie. The scene shifts as the family frets over chores and onions planted, with a promise to resume digging or stay home.
The speaker recalls nearly marrying Queenie and a mother urging a match. Queenie marks the yard as she and the narrator discuss the future while digging, but the task turns to heavy, asphalt like soil, hinting at concrete obstacles to their union.
Wilhjamur Steffanson, Icelandic born explorer and former Harvard instructor, plans a 1800 mile Arctic voyage starting April from Edmonton in a rowboat. He will live off trapping, carry gifts such as needles and butcher knives, and be funded by the American Museum of Natural History with reporting to follow.
In a Paris New York Bar Harbor connection, Mrs Eleanor Nolker is sued for 325 after a 900 debt for lace handkerchiefs. An attachment on a St Louis painting follows as creditors seek recovery from her lavish spending habits.
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle leads a group of six society men in a boxing bout at the Merion Cricket Club next Saturday night. The same number of pugilists will meet, and each will fight for five rounds.
Loxworx March 26 report says Premier Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman slept well but remains weak. Bulletin notes only continued weakness with no other changes to his condition.
Carlo de Peloggio, an Italian yachtsman, plans a July 1 start from New York Harbor in a twenty four foot sailboat bound for Genoa Italy. He wagers with Marquis Zanott of Rome that such a craft can cross the Atlantic. He will be joined by one companion, likely Viscount de Lemonnier of Paris, with a possible forty day crossing if weather favors.
Ponson C. Chu of Shanghai a wealthy Chinese student in Yale’s junior class has been elected to Pal Upsilon. John Kendrick Bangs Jr of New York City is elected into Delta Kappa Epsilon. Chu’s family is linked to the last Chinese dynasty and his father heads a steamship line.
An advertisement claims a prescription for stomach relief using Compound Tincture of Cinchona Prosene Compound and Sherry Wine. The Chicago drug store executive says Prosene Compound drives the digestive Pancreatic Juice action and, with vegetable tonics, yields marvelous results. Freemann can fill this prescription.
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