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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1903
Page
12
A patchwork of anecdotes and sensational notions on figures like Barney Barnato and John D. Rockefeller. Remarks on trusts, patents, and prominent names mingle with literary jests about Bret Harte and the Kaiser. The piece touches on projects, wealth, and cultural curiosities from a historical column.
A remark from Pugfill at Corbett asserts that following one’s creed keeps a man from going far astray though he notes that some may still end up in jail. The comment reflects on personal ethics and consequences.
An OCR fragment mixes a whimsical archaic verse about wind and harvest with garbled sci fi style notes. It mentions Frank Parrington and Lipppingford in a misread line and then oddly shifts to a fantasy plant wippifes and a food item made of yellow Teakdike bodies.
An archeologist recounts a tale from Chichen Itza where a Maya landlady chased a pig using her bare toes. She grabbed the animal by its tail between the rear toe and second toe, then swung her leg to propel it away, claiming toes work as deftly as fingers. The anecdote highlights Mayan dexterity and longstanding skill.
The text describes hour glasses and sand clocks used before clocks, noting they were made with sand or dried eye shells and invented about 760 or 200 years before the Christian era. They were widely used in churches and may still be seen in some old European churches.
A description of the pitcher plant’s method to lure and trap insects with sweet liquid then barb-ed passages and recurved hooks. It notes rapid leaf hinges entrap insects, and extended cycles of capture. It also mentions tropical acacia hosting an ant army to defend against leaf cutting ants.
This item notes a red and white seal marked S A M M S read both ways, featuring a circle of serpents and the Egyptian eternity sign. It describes the Society of American Magicians of New York meeting on the first Saturday of each month at 493 Sixth Avenue. The motto Magic Unity Might and its acrostic Mum emphasize secrecy against exposing methods.
John B. Ward of the Klondike, carrying a $100,000 signature, left San Bernardino with gold to pay miners and option property. Wrong railroad timing doomed him to Palm Springs, so he walked the desert for two nights and days, subsisting on cactus pith. Found delirious, he rode a freight train back to San Bernardino. Ward is among the city’s wealthiest men.
The document from the parliamentary printing office outlines an act to repeal certain statutes that are sleeping and not in use. It retells aged provisions including limits on horse harnessing, labor wages declared by justices, restrictions on Irish dwellers, and a London butcher ban. The piece notes the oddity of revived ancestral wisdom within the repeal bill.
A shoe found in the Potomac near its mouth contained twenty seven oysters attached to its interior. Dredgers recovered the brogan type footwear by the river and sent the specimen to Mr. Bell through an oyster inspector. The unusual discovery was cited in the Baltimore Sun.
A newspaper writer pushes a young author to craft a real Valentine tale. In Manila, Jones discovers a dying soldier named Templeton receives an unmailed love letter from a hometown girl. Jones later learns the letter's sender is the girl Templeton waited for, and the tale ends with a hidden romance linked to a battlefield church.
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