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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1903
Page
4
A collage of quirky notes and quotes from public figures, jokes, and cultural tidbits. References range from John L. Sullivan and Bret Harte to Rockefeller and Roosevelt, with remarks on trusts, science, literature, and technology.
Pugillat Corbett remarked that if every man lives up to his creed he is doing what he thinks is right and will not go far astray. The remark is contrasted with a note that sometimes such paths lead to jail.
A fragmentary poem like passage describes autumn winds and moving leaves as the land sailor figure calls for the skies to clear. The prose shifts through surreal images of colors, creatures, and distant voices, mentioning Frank Marrington and a fictional Lipppingetee locality.
Anecdote from a Harvard Peabody archaeologist about Maya skill with toes in Chichen Itza housework and a tale of the Society of American Magicians in New York. The magicians’ seal features a red and white monogram readable upside down, with an eternity symbol. The club meets monthly at 49% Sixth Avenue. Magic Unity Might.
The article notes that hour glasses and sand clocks were used long before clocks, with early versions glazed and filled with sand or powdered egg shells dried in ovens. Invented about 160 or 200 years before the Christian era, they were widely used in churches and many old European churches still display them.
The article describes the pitcher plant attracting prey with a sweet scent, insects slipping inside while recurved hooks bar the exit. Leaves hinge and snap shut rapidly to trap prey, remaining closed until exhaustion. It notes occasional plant alliances with enemies and references an acacia known as the bullethorn thorn housing marching ants as protection.
John E. Ward of Klondike valued at 100000 signed, forced to eat cactus pith for three days to stave starvation. He traveled from San Bernardino to Palm Springs, missed a train, wandered the desert two nights and three days, surviving on cactus pulp and starving to near death before being found by prospectors. He owns mines near Dele and had 2000 in gold, later returning to San Bernardino.
A curious document from the parliamentary printing office reports a bill passed by the commons titled An act to re pont certain statutes which are sleep ing arl not in use. It reproduces samples of ancestral wisdom, including restrictions on riding in rain, wage rates by justices of the peace, limits on Irish migrants, and rules to prevent butchers from shipping beasts within London walls.
A warped old shoe dredged from the Potomac near its mouth carried twenty seven attached oysters. The brittle upper shows oysters pressing through with the liberior full of bivelver as the shoe was recovered by oyster dredgers and sent to Mr. Bell.
A young editor pushes for Valentine tales and narrates a true yarn. In Luzon a soldier named Templeton dies after a letter from home arrives with a Valentine enclosed. Jones finds the note, keeps the card, and believes the sender remains unknown though the tale hints at a hidden, faithful woman.
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