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Newspaper
Lewiston Daily Teller
Location
Lewiston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1901
Page
6
Judith confronts her mother and sister over using John Harwood to milk the cow and fetch chores. He and Judith confess feelings, she reveals shyness about singing, and he finally proposes marriage as they plan a future together.
The piece notes remarkable longevity among the Society of Chosen Friends in Britain with two women over 100 and a general UK average death age of 61 years 7 months 7 days. It highlights Sir William Martin Conway an explorer visiting the United States to join a Bolivian Andes expedition, his Himalayan climbs and knighthood, and notes his past roles at University College Liverpool and his book on experiences. It also mentions Queen Victoria's coronation coach at Buckingham Palace and hints at Mosso’s experiments on famine and starvation and a brief line about an actress tied to her art.
The article explains Mexico’s Day of the Dead customs with gift giving replacing Valentine’s Day. Tokens include painted silk bits, verse, trinkets, flowers, and costly miniatures like a footlong ebony hearse with pearl inlay. Slabs with priests, coffins, and skulls symbolize funerals across walks of life, reflecting life’s transience.
Miss Greta Pomeroy, famed as the United States top all around woman athlete, announces engagement to Philip Clark. She has killed a grizzly with a single rifle shot near Glenwood Springs, excels in cross country riding and long distance swimming, and is praised as the best woman fencer by leading fencing teachers. She is a Cincinnati girl, and Clark is from St. Louis.
Mrs Lena Head formerly Miss Lena Head wed the gardener of her guardian, shunning a $20 million legacy. She and her mother Betsy Head flee to New York City from Great River, Long Island, while her uncle George C. Paylor holds a large estate there. Her family vows she shall receive nothing. Lord Kelvin longest serving university chair. scientist and inventor Sir William Thomson, later a baron, held natural philosophy at Glasgow from 1846 to 1899 and is among Royal Society’s oldest fellows. The Belgian king, a scholarly pipe smoker, favors briar and English tobacco. no crown exists as Belgium has no coronation.
A tale recalls a writer known as P who kept a weekly adventure story in print, refusing closure. Published under a cent a word, he stalled with cliffhangers ending in peril as the publisher pressed for an ending. Threats and dwindling pay finally forced a feeble finale titled Finish.
From New Zealand comes a twoinone support device by inventors Laverus N Duhrberg and George K Askin. The gear converts rapidly from suspenders to a belt, aimed at athletes cricketers rowers and football players and workers who need versatile apparel support.
A description explains a combined belt and suspender system, offering both everyday wear and work safety. The design pivots braces at the back to align, with front straps looping to upper suspenders buckles. Ends fasten via exposed hook and loop, allowing easy conversion at modest extra cost.
Peter van Meurs discusses the De Wet lineage noting a Haarlem painter named Jacobus Willems De Wet as a distinguished early figure. The De Wet surname appears first in Kaapland family registers. A later Jacobus De Wet settled along the Liesbeck River in South Africa, marrying Josina Pretorius and dying in 1711 with five children.
Russia approves a 561 mile oil pipeline from Baku to Batum on the Black Sea. Government insists all piping and hydraulic machinery be made in Russia, delaying construction to 1904 or 1908 after fifteen years of ministerial discussion. The report notes other historical items such as Yale's first American telescope in 1830 and mentions biblical Daniel as a hero among the characters.
A collage of cropped jokes and quips from multiple papers. Fragments span breach suit banter, poverty-tinged humor, domestic irony, and weathered punchlines. Names and places drift through as clipped examples of early 20th century light verse and comic dialogue.
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