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Newspaper
Mineral Point Tribune
Location
Mineral Point, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1905
Page
3
In a tense rural scene, a young man wounded by a bank robbery is sheltered by Bessie as surrounding pursuers close in. Misconceptions erupt when she fears his identity, only to learn his tale and face a future implied by a lone, strained offer.
Richard Gibson and his wife, noted as diminutive painters, kept a joint niche that barely reached seven feet. Gibson served as drawing master to the daughters of James II, who would become queens. Their wedding involved Henrietta Maria, Charles I gave away the bride, and Edmund Waller wrote a poem starting with Design or chance makes others wives, praising their union Chloris and Nature.
The Boston Herald recounts Queen Victoria's fondness for children and a visit where a little girl names a shop near Whiteleys while the queen says she lives near Gorringe's. The piece also recalls a school board memory of Decoration Day, when pupils answer that they decorate soldiers' graves because they are dead.
Local notes cover returning students and teachers from Notre Dame Beloit Tempe and Tempe Miss Hutchison Mrs Fischer and Clara travel to Iowa and Europe farmer antics and law minded Fourth of July safety calls. Real estate offers from Kieffer Crum and local business chatter alongside medical tips and Cuba era diarrhoea remedies.
The London Public Opinion reporter describes a Maori feast with a welcome dance, backward procession to the meeting house, and extended speeches. Guests sit on veranda, then dine on roast duck and pork with potatoes and peas, but potatoes arrive late and are undercooked, leaving the correspondent with duck bread and oranges.
London Spectator notes that humans know little of natural laws beyond electricity heat and light. It questions bee navigation moth antennae plant tendrils and unseen forces and argues that if ignorance exists in the seen world it surely exists more in the unseen.
A concise exploration of the cento form noting its origin in Latin poetry and its modern uses. It explains how passages from multiple authors can be fused to create a new poem, with examples spanning Wordsworth Coleridge and Tennyson, and mentions historical figures and anecdotes illustrating the form.
Brief, garbled snippets quote Detroit Free Press and Chicago News with stray lines about affection money lacver house and virtue as reward. Odd exchanges mention names Fletcher and Jots oller, reflecting imperfect OCR of a dated society column.
A special term of the Iowa County Court in Dodgeville on the second Wednesday of July 1905 will hear the administration account of Richard Mitchell executor of Thomas W. Mitchell's estate and requests interpretation of the will. Notice will be published in the Mineral Point Tribune for two weeks.
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