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Newspaper
Odon Journal
Location
Odon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1906
Page
5
Wesley Snedner confesses to Miss Elmira that the letter praising his heart was penned by Silas Mansur because he cannot write his own name. The moment exposes his vow to win her, despite fear and social pressure, in a small community near Chinkapin Hundred.
Late southern migration of wild geese causes widespread losses across farms and ships. Reports detail geese colliding with farm buildings and wrecked in storms, including eleven carcasses aboard the whaling ship Dart off Newfoundland.
Re using old shoem janitors collect shoes cast away by tenants and send them to auction rooms where they are sorted into piles marked Men Women Children. In a recent sale in one of the big shops crowds eager to sell. Prices around ten cents apiece were noted as bidders competed for leather and material.
The article extols Mrs Beacham a top railroad contractor who directs men and oversees vast projects across the United States. It notes her profit on a Tennessee Central contract of eighty thousand dollars and an annual earning around fifty thousand. Her current task includes five miles of line from Kirby Station Virginia as part of a larger one hundred mile coal mine to sea railroad project. She employs about one hundred fifty workers and manages supplies with firm leadership. Her personality blends determination with feminine charm and she is highly popular with her staff. The piece also mentions her two sons Claud and Erwin and her husband, now an invalid, with much work done in the southern states.
A Tid-Bits essay recounts royal chess feuds from King Edward and Henry I to King John. It notes games that started peacefully but escalated into violent tempers, with Louis and Fulk Wariner as cited opponents and royal blows, shaping later disputes over succession and castles.
Chan Chun Man of a Canton firm with ten thousand workers discusses China’s shift toward warlike power in Philadelphia. He notes China’s ancient civilization but warns that a newer respect for war carries some barbarism while ending the era of being laughed at by more warlike nations.
In Saint Petersbourg opera scene Mme Grisi walked with Signor Maria in the emperor's private park. The emperor greeted them and asked if the two children were Grisettes, to which Grisi replied they were Marior ettes. The anecdote highlights courtly intrigue around the famed performers.
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