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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1903
Page
6
A collage of pithy quips and observations from 1900 era journalism. It includes remarks on public figures, society absurdities, medical misstatements, and cultural notes. Names like Consuelo and Morgan surface, alongside jokes about corsets and lettuce cures.
A reader notes many Americans still care about professional baseball. The remark contrasts the sport’s enduring appeal with aging figures abroad, mentioning two centenarians in England and a humorous European reference to George Washington and naively translated phrases.
A Brooklyn Eagle tale about a con man selling a spring energy capsule to a disinterested capitalist. The capsule allegedly rouses lethargy, prompting the capitalist to leap from his chair and seek water, exposing the fraud as peppery revenge ends the ruse.
A bad debt collector recalls an eerie chat about spirits and a Albany story. The ghost asks him to locate a great grandson Moore and a missing will hidden in an old chest. Instead, the finder uncovers a bill for knee pants, and Moore ejects him from the door.
Mr Ridgely Howard recalls visiting Richmond and mistaking a youthful portrait of John Randolph of Roanoke for a pretty young woman. He notes the hair, eyes, and facial shape, then describes Randolph’s later cynicism, his mother’s beauty, and Randolph’s grave relocation to Hollywood Cemetery with an inscribed stone marking his birth and death dates.
A garbled account notes Witmar on the Baltic given as pledge by Sweden to Mecklenburg in 1503 in exchange for about 915000 dollars. It says payment with 2 percent interest was to be repaid after 100 years and hints at Sweden reclaiming the town if the sum is paid. The text then digresses on humility and admiration.
Gertrude Castle, a Texas ranch girl, rides her pet steer Comanche along a road beside a railroad, outrunning a locomotive. The steer leaps a wire gate to avoid disaster as the engine thunders past. the crowd cheers the brave animal and the girl as they reach the depot in safety.
London firm installs modern sewer and water system to curb buzzing birds in Vera Crux. Protective measures end as the city moves to finish the new damage system, reducing numbers through capture and removal to cages for disposal.
Frederic Remington the artist has spent time in the southwest recovering health and gathering material for new work. He notes the typical westerner is hardly observable today with the cowboy particularly extinct and the old life nearly gone.
In 1902 no fewer than 40 401 persons emigrated from Ireland. Nearly all were natives except 221. Since 1851 about £000,000 have left Ireland for the colonies or United States.
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