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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1901
Page
2
A mosaic of snippets ranging from domestic life to science and land law. The piece surveys social views on marriage, temperance, and labor dignity, alongside notes on farm tenancy trends, immigration, education, and scientific advances. It links rising tenant farming to economic shifts, census data, and impacts on rural prosperity.
Frank Harland’s injury leaves him housebound until Isola Ray, the music teacher next door, begins sending flowers. A sunny walk to thank her leads to a courtship with Miss Denslow’s blessing. The couple wed in time, humor intact, as Frank reflects on football’s consequences.
A Chicago Record poem about a cherished baby boy. The speaker recalls his playful noise and bright eyes, noting innocence and endearing charm that elicits neighbors' admiration. Grandma recalls past noise, while the child rests with chubby hands and pure youth, described as a divine gift.
A Washington Post piece recounts a Westerner who used a sick wife excuse to nap in Washington. It also profiles Martha Jane Canary later known as Calamity Jane, born 1852 in Princeton Missouri, who rode with cavalry in Custer campaigns and fought alongside Crook and Miles in frontier wars from 1870 to 1875, earning a fearless reputation as a scout and sharpshooter.
A biographical sketch portrays Calamity Jane as a female frontier scout and mail carrier, known as Martha Burk in private life. It recounts her service with Custer and Miles, the Goose Creek skirmish, the Big Horn campaign, and her later years selling a memoir while striving to educate her daughter.
A London scientist describes preliminary tremors from the 1897 Indian earthquake as waves traveling around the world. He notes compression waves reached Europe at about 345 miles per minute while large quasi elastic gravitational waves moved at 113 miles per minute. The waves’ period was twenty two seconds with an inferred length near thirty four miles and a height of about twenty inches.
The piece notes American Indian beliefs in occult powers of rattlesnakes and a growing white interest. Rattlesnake oil sales for rheumatism and neuralgia have expanded into a modest but profitable industry. In Maine and New Brunswick, rattlesnake skin neckties are used as a remedy for coughs, colds, and as voodoo charms against bad luck.
News from Antwerp reports a Norwegian expedition reaching Spitzbergen where rich coal beds are found. Explorers bring back fossils of ferns tropical plants and fruits, indicating substantial mineral wealth at the northerly reach.
Fishermen of Iceland now carry oil in their boats to smooth waves allowing work in rough weather that would have deterred them before. An honest yearly self assessment is advised as overestimating ability gains no help. A proposal for a song titled You Promised Me suggests post marriage reflection.
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