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Newspaper
Lexington Gazette
Location
Lexington, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1902
Page
2
A fragment from Richard Le Gallienne featured in Harper's Magazine. The verse contrasts fates of little girls and boys, imagining a child wishing to become a star and sending light to a distant father with tender fantasy of reunions in the sky.
Stranded Mildred Carson, penniless and hungry, meets Mr Gaveston at the exhibition grounds. He offers luncheon and support, rekindling old feelings as he returns her belt bag and a portrait. She admits she cares and the pair reconcile amid a blend of flirtation and hardship.
A schoolmaster debates the idea that all men have a price and denies honoring great men who died for faith and country. He calls the notion nonsense and labels it a fool’s last plea, praising the sterling strength of people everywhere.
A poem to Belle bel ignites a dispute as Belle tears it up in anger. Nell questions the motive while Belle heads to a line on Mabob face in a sharp exchange reported by the Philadelphia Record.
A Florida domestic tale reports John spending the day in the sun attempting to kill a rattlesnake to obtain a rattle for the baby, as noted by the Bilmilie matron quoted in the Atlanta Constitution.
The essay critiques Fourier the socialist for overprecision, arguing his strength lay in broad foresight. It cites Charles Gide noting that narrowing to specifics, like a rapid Marseille to Paris journey or a single ship’s route, destroys the value of his predictive insight.
The Washington Post recounts General M C Meigs, once quartermaster general, buried at Arlington in a granite tomb built with a body-sized cavity. The sculptor kept the secret, and when Meigs’ casket was opened for placement in the sarcophagus no other covering than the uniform remained.
A scientist explains that extreme thunderclouds form from electrification and that lightning sometimes travels upward from the ground. Lightning ceases when the cloud rises beyond the tension limit, and as it lifts the path becomes more vertical. Thunderbeads may be seen up to 200 miles away.
A moral exhortation urges steadfast truth in word and deed as the basis for a noble character. It argues a boy who tells the truth under all circumstances will avoid mean or dishonest acts, and warns against stooping for material gain or success.
A government proclamation warns olive tree owners to harvest by a set date lest the fruit become public property. Officials remind watchmen to protect trees from unauthorized stripping as the deadline approaches.
A quip contrasts scorpion venom losing sting with repeated stings. a joke notes jealousy and a wedding delay as Miss Poser seeks prominence in a forthcoming marriage notice. The exchange hints at social humor over bravado and match headlines.
A humorous exchange compares dying with possessions, noting a friend’s debt of $10 as unpaid inheritance. A proverb about animal keep costs contrasts a single dog with sixty hens, which would lay 600 dozen eggs.
In a Columbus tale a visitor named Mrs. A finds a vase on a mantel and, after a parrot named Polly in Mrs. B s living room issues the command to drop, the vase shatters. Polly the parrot mocks the scene by repeating You're it.
The article explains the production of vaccine virus for vaccination. It describes a surgical scar on a calf to harvest virus, which then oozes from the wound after about a week. Goose quills are coated with the virus to make points for shipment.
The London Chronicle notes that in Kamyschin district by the Volga wives are still bought rather than married. Prices for a pretty girl range from £10 to £20, with lower sums in villages. Fathers haggle over the dowry, and a poor farmer cannot marry without funds.
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A dialogue between a youth and Miss Flyppe in which he asks how long a man should know a girl before using her first name. She answers that about six months suffices if he is the right man, but she rejects Mr Spoonamore as not right.
A Georgia citizen comments on a tall figure by a slouched reader, saying the person is not exactly a genius but possesses remarkable patience as the Atlanta Constitution notes.
A thought experiment explains air density with depth and altitude. If a well reached 46 miles, air density at the bottom would equal quicksilver. Conversely, a cubic inch of air at 4,000 miles up would expand to fill a sphere 2,000,000,000 miles across.
A brief paragraph cites a Chicago News remark about a man who parts from jokes with hearty enjoyment. It notes that another speaker, Borem-You, praises the humor while Birkins-Cluess claims the joke has been told twenty times with the same laughter each time.
An anonymous shoe clerk in the Los Angeles Herald quotes himself saying he never forgets a face he has fitted with shoes. The remark highlights memory tied to his trade and the personal connections with customers.
Hon John Goode President of the State Constitutional Convention declares the revised constitution best possible under the circumstances. He cites suffrage limits, reduced taxes, new jury system, executive legislative and judiciary reforms, updated taxation, public institutions governance, and a state corporation commission to curb trusts and monopolies.
August Flower remains the largest selling medicine in the civilized world, withads pushing its use for indigestion and feverish symptoms. Obituaries note Bishop William Taylor’s death in Palo Alto on May 18, praised as a great Methodist evangelist, and Mrs. Sarah Bryan of Mint Spring aged 80, mother of John W. Bryan of Staunton. Pyny-Balsam marketed as an immediate cough and cold remedy.
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