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Newspaper
Logan Nation
Location
Logan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1902
Page
6
A fragmented early poem reads like a speaker waiting and reflecting on fate and destiny. The speaker asks for winds and tides, seeks inner truth, and wonders about love, time, and purpose. The altered diction hints at mortality and longing without clear narrative structure.
Harold Dean narrates Bert Hollister a keen young critic who courts Grace de Montfort amid stage life. Grace frets over attention while Bert pursues a high drama career and romance, culminating in Marie revealing an impending marriage to Bert and a plan to wed at the Deanery.
A ship’s carpenter recounts a voyage through the Orient and recalls how the word joss is misperceived. He cites a Chinese priest who explains the term as a corruption of the Spanish Dios adopted by missionaries. The priest notes limited understanding inland and that the word is chiefly used along the Chinese coast.
Dispatch from Joplin Missouri reports Owen Greevlish of Leavenworth Kansas killed near Lebanom and Springfield after climbing atop a water tank and leaping into the smoke stack of a westbound St. Louis and San Francisco passenger train He died soon after and his brother in Lebanon Kansas denies it was a suicide noting no signs of distress and a recent postal arrival.
A Nineteenth Century invention feature describes Joseph W. Ross of Alma Illinois presenting a hooded shade for plants to protect them from sun and wind. The device folds for shipping and adjusts via a latched flap, with use for shielding gardens and blocking moths at night. Eva M Bowyer Chicago introduces a leather umbrella hanger to keep hands free while shopping, attaching to a belt or strap. Also, an elevator for cinder pits by William Robertson Chicago enables automatic dumping of ashes into cars using a cable car, hydraulic or pneumatic actuation, and a floor-discharge mechanism.
The American Machinist reports W Leland a Brooklyn machinist offered mica springs from a past inquiry. He claims mica acts as a flat spring and keeps its springiness under very high temperatures. He also sent sportmen some noted mica pieces.
German inventor Maximilian Galley of Hanover proposes a transparent face shield with a connected trough to catch hair clippings. The device fits around the forehead, prevents material from passing under, and can be made from celluloid glass or waxed paper, aiding shampooing while speeding barber work.
A terse, fragmented note discusses a fretful baby and the difficulty of deciding whether to give medicine for the colic or spank for crankiness. It questions parental certainty and hints at frustration with handling the child.
A cryptic verse fragment recalls Mrs Noah questioning Joan of Arc as the ark sailed past Genoa. Noah, bewildered, responds with bafflement, “I don’t know her,” revealing a playful misnaming of a famed historical figure.
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