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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1902
Page
6
A collage of satire and news notes from Alfred Austin to Kaiser statements. It mocks the Boer war, Rockefeller, and Russia, references the Charleston exposition, Princeton fines, and New York society abandoning ping pong amid class tensions.
A humorous column riffs on old sayings and public life. It mocks editors seeking relief, jokes about a surgery on Emperor William, dieting woes, and golf, ping pong, and social sports. It notes a rapid divorce after a hurried wedding and mentions a recycled safekeeping of old proverbs.
The Chicago woman seeking divorce after her husband quoted poetry loses in court. The piece notes poetry and poets rising in public interest, and cites related reflections on fame and memory as a former king of Spain dies. A Texas physician suggests digging postholes as a quick cure for spring fever, offering a quirky folk remedy.
A miscellany pairing uplifting verses with curious science tricks and a lesson in calmness. Read on about daily blessings, a pear cutting trick, a Lapland clock need, a mock clock ad, and a fatherly note on keeping a cool head in danger.
A historical guide explains a simple magic lantern using cloth or paper, a mirror, a candle, and paper figures. By placing a light behind the screen and angling a mirror, silhouettes of pictures appear on the cloth, enabling movable shadow figures to be shown with outlines only.
The article recalls ancient Australian naviges of years gone by, fond of games like rough football in the wild zone called Marn fhook. The ball game resembled football with no goals, the object to keep possession, often causing small battles as players fought for control and wounded those who opposed.
An Epirus ambassador visited Sparta and was astonished by the lack of walls. The king promised to show him walls the next day, revealing 16 000 soldiers as the symbolic walls, each a brick.
Poem extracts evoke loss and longing for children at play on a farm, citing James Whitcomb Riley and family memories. The text shifts to a Missouri G A R badge ceremony for Maj. Lea Rassieur, the upcoming national encampment in Washington, and remarks on Civil War surrender terms and General Grant.
Gen. E. P. Alexander recalls Gen. Lee’s remark on allowing Confederate soldiers to disperse. Lee questions how many could escape, noting two thirds might flee like rabbits. He adds he has fewer than 16,000 infantry with arms and that many would not reach Johnston or the state governors.
Henry Wensler of Spikers Station in Wabash County Indiana served in the Eighty-ninth Indiana infantry during the war. Heat partially dazed him, leaving him insane for years in a hospital. His wife obtained a divorce and a guardian was appointed. In the 1870s he drew a $50 monthly pension for disability, later showing property. By 1900 the guardian held over $20,000. He recovered enough to work as a pedlar and sought to prove sanity to regain control of his property, but learning that a sane ruling would cut his pension, he chose to remain insane and collect benefits. He is now about years old, in good physical and fair mental condition, likely to live long.
In Miles memoirs a Denver Post writer recalls Gen Miles praising a young colonel for an act of extraordinary courage. As shells burst and men hesitated, he rode through smoke, drew his sword, and urged them to move lest they die trying to live.
General orders No 8 from national president W. BR C. set the twentieth annual convention for the second week in October in the capital with headquarters at the Ebbitty House. It also promotes a McKinley memorial fund at Canton and urges all corps members to contribute. A tribute is paid to the late Judge Wallace.
The Massachusetts House committee on wils ang Theana reports a bill to erect a statue of the late Benjamin F Butler should not pose. The wording suggests opposition within the committee to funding and installation of the statue.
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