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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1903
Page
14
A collage of brief items notes Bret Harte’s estate at 1800 dollars, Wagner royalties at 115000, and Carnegies wealth in 1902. It mentions editor Stead, Kipling, Abdul Hamid, and global topics from Hawaii cables to Sahara balloon attempts, plus trivia on a Tokyo jinrikisha life and Peru Bolivia boundary talks.
A misdirected insurance payment was made to a company for Hetty Green property. No complaint was filed by Hetty regarding the error and the matter was not pursued further.
A Chicago man fires at his prospective soup-in-law amid a family clash. The father reportedly preferred to boot the youth rather than support him, underscoring a troubled domestic dispute.
Special correspondence discusses Palestine as a battleground of religious claims. It details Jewish colonization efforts, European crusading rhetoric, and the role of the Commissariat of the Holy Land in backing restoration and ownership, against Turkish and Greek interests. It mentions Baron Hirsch’s endowment and various religious groups’ aims.
A river chase in the Cheesehowts kee river ends with harpooned alligator forcing boatmen into a dramatic fight. The men survive, kill the beast, and recount perilous travel through Everglades terrain and mangrove channels as they reflect on dangers of Great Cypress swamp.
Two MPs recount quaint episodes from Venezuela. Henry Labouchere recalls a visiting baronet's room thefts and a later plaza battle anecdote. A minister leads to a hidden hoard of silver dollars, and a comic moral about sharing swag ends with a playful twist.
A New York Times snapshot from a Firat avenue pawnbroker shows a red nosed woman and quarrelsome exchanges over used quilts. A bleary man negotiates boots, a frightened woman trails the thief, and others seek loans on Bibles rings and a wedding band.
The article traces diba or knucklebones to the third century B C and earlier, noting how ankle bones from deer and sheep were used as early gaming pieces. It explains the evolution to astragal from the Latin ankle joint and hints at Scots use of pebbles and even precious materials, with stones numbered and colored for king and pawn roles.
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