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Newspaper
Pratt City Herald
Location
Pratt City, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1901
Page
2
Fragmented verse laments children distant in the evening shadows. Imagery recalls a family bond as mothers call, and the community mourns separation. The text evokes a despairing rural scene with recurring lines about weather, birds, and a vow to reunite.
An excerpt from Charles Eugene Banks's A Child of the Sun describes an Arctides buffalo hunt ritual near Lake Michigan. Wahwun the medicine man guides village preparations, a ceremonial javelin ring contest determines the hunter, and Wanata wins amid dances, drums, and buffalo-hide honors.
An anecdote recalls Sir Henry Hawking, Lord Stampton, when a railway station helper claims a past kindness from him. The rough acolyte, once aided by Billy Crooked, hints at a cautionary future, offering help in return and threatening vengeance if Billy is not promptly hanged.
Arch deacon Sinclair once preached at Wellington and Chelsea barracks. A Coldstream Guards sergeant major apologized for missing his sermons, noting the men enjoy his talks. The archdeacon replied that he had not the pleasure of drawing the Chelsea chaplain, and the soldier quipped that his voice had the value of a drill sergeant.
A candid sermon before Archbishop Taft and Dean Stane leads to a stammering joke about dividing the congregation into the converted and unconverted. The prisoner’s response after the joke signals tense nervousness and a notable reaction from onlookers.
In Onobi Nebraska a colored pupil Mre denule MeCorkel age near 60 helps a class of three grown adults and several younger children learn to read. They study the Bible, letters, and simple words by night, while earnings from washing and small jobs fund the lessons.
A fragment from a 19th century column describes Mrs M Corkel at school noting a kindly bond between young and old pupils. It admires her devout readings from Psalms and details cooking tips for turnips and checking egg freshness by water test.
Detroit Free Press reports Princess Victoria, youngest child of Edward VII, long linked to a possible marriage with a wealthy Indian prince, now lingering in spinsterhood. The piece notes her reserved nature, love of country life, and a ruby ring from a deceased lover. Gossip hints at an engagement to Prince George of Greece, but no official word is given.
A 1900s Anglo-American reflection notes Germany forming an Association of Married Women for the Control of Husbands. The piece questions public access to the charter, imagines private meetings with papers and anecdotes, and contrasts German women’s move with American domestic autonomy. It suggests American wives already manage husbands, while German wives seek change.
A New Velonns Times Democrat report details a clever mint theft scheme in the Western mint where strips were weighed and reweighed, a dead rat exposed the fraud, and an employee was dismissed for theft. The inspector traced the loss to a janitor who trapped the rat and hid it in a leather grip to steal $25 in counterfeit money.
A Broadway florist recalls unique customers who buy flowers for memory and habit. Yellow primroses attract a pale Englishwoman, wall flowers delight a slim old lady, jasmine draws a gray hatter, lilacs lure a stern, moneyed man, and each purchase hints at a personal tale.
A tale recounts the contrast between a rich but tactless man and a tactful newspaper man. They tour a newspaper office where editors toil in a gloomily lit editorial room. The remark echoes a proverb as the visitor scornfully compares labor, while the editor dryly asserts every man is fit for his own calling.
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