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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1901
Page
2
A compilation of quips and notes from the Plattsmouth Journal includes stabs at banking woes, celebrity coronations, moral opinions, and evolving tech jokes. It references a $100,000 overdraft, King Edward's four hour coronation, cheers for a smokeless stove, and social satire on fashion and immigration tests.
It is shown that two large steam locomotives cannot safely occupy the same track section simultaneously, underscoring a persistent safety risk in shared rail space.
A 50 year old woman sues for damages over breach of promise of marriage. the matter is serious and not a subject for humor.
Encouraged by the cucumber sunbeam extraction success, a Baltimore company has been incorporated to extract whisky from watermelons, signaling an unusual venture in beverage processing and fruit-based distillation.
In Chicago an anarchist speaker praised the presidential assassin as superior and declared Congress will soon provide positions for such murder promoters. The claim highlights tense political rhetoric and threats toward national leaders.
A Yoakum editor quips that running a paper requires balancing poetry, subscriptions, job press work, and management of the publication. He advises stopping the poetry grind to focus on the broader duties.
A poetic line imagines humanity as sleepers in a dream from God and foresees waking to a vision of smoke rising from Mars and other inhabited planets.
A New Yorker offers a job to Johan Beck, who survived drifting in a box in the hold of the Hamburg American steamship Palatine for about fifteen days. He was found nearly dead from cold hunger and terror and the act prompts calls to care for the endurance survivor.
Edward John Eyre, the once dominant British political figure, died recently in London. The long national contest between John Stuart Mill and Thomas Carlyle centered on Eyre’s governorship of Jamaica and his suppression of a supposed insurrection with alleged cruel methods. Eyre was formally exonerated but immediately left public life.
A music critic notes the rise of a young American fiddler who will receive about $100,000 for 100 concerts, a sum that astonishes even skeptical skeptics and reflects the high value placed on rare talent despite usual managerial frugality.
Mrs Bradley Martin countermanded her order for a coronet to wear at the king's coronation. The move, linked to a tithe tradition, suggests the action followed an insinuation higher up the line.
Citizens seek audience with King Edward but a new rule may prevent many who wish honor the monarch from being noticed. Officials warn the change could exclude deserving supplicants and complicate access to the king’s drawing room.
A hungry tramp enters the Tracy household on Christmas morning and is offered breakfast. A young Donald Tracy reads him Mother Goose and shares kindness, leading the man to reflect on his past and vow to change. A year later a letter reveals the tramp's recovery and a gift to the boy who sparked it.
A quiet night on a stable door hosts a nervous mother cradling her newborn. The child, seen as a kingly crown of hair, brings calm as the world remains hushed and still. The poem, attributed to Edna A. Foster, frames a maternal scene as sacred and serene.
A hundred years apart the nation changes from a world with no stoves to one with omnipresent cooking power. Census figures reveal stark contrasts: in 1800 northern states list 2.6 million whites, 47 thousand free blacks, 36 thousand slaves, while southern states report 1.7 million whites, 61 thousand free blacks and 857 thousand slaves, totaling about 5.3 million.
In Holland on Christmas Eve children await a visitor as St Nicholas enters in episcopal robes. He examines each child’s behavior and then blesses all, promising presents the next morning. Each family member places a shoe on the parlor table before sleep, and gifts appear in every shoe at dawn.
A proverb reflects the value of inner peace over material riches, suggesting contentment brings more true happiness than abundant wealth lacking joy. It emphasizes spiritual well being over financial success.
Poem portrays a Christmas morning scene with two white figures arriving at dawn. Children’s rosy feet peek in as cherubic angels bring symbols of the day and a warm family welcome fills the house with festive cheer.
On Christmas Eve John Maxwell returns to claim Alice Tower, who had waited for him two years. She is then torn between him and Dent Dexter, who loves her but accepts the past. Maxwell and Dexter forge a noble pact after Maxwell’s pain, and Alice eventually bears a son named for the man who shaped their fate.
A Welsh reader from Pontypridd praises St Jacobs Oil for sprained ankles keeping her bedridden for months before recovery. The letter touts the remedy as highly effective, notes medals from international exhibitions, and mentions a Lincoln Nebraska horse company ad in the same paper.
In the Atlas mountains goats are seen climbing trees to feed on foliage. Some stand on branches thirty feet from the ground while others balance and nibble as the wind moves the boughs.
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