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Newspaper
Revelstoke Herald
Location
Ravelstoke, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
2
A treatise argues thoughts act as forces like wireless signals shaping others. It compares mental influence to telegraphy, noting words affect distant hearts and can uplift or oppress. The piece urges universal love and honesty as the path to shared nobility in humanity.
A Boston Transcript story recalls two nations helping each other at a port in Chi o where an American knocked down a police officer after a street dispute. He was arrested and condemned to be shot, but the English consul intervened, shielding him with the Union Jack and the American flag, protesting the execution by shouting shoot through the hearts of England and America.
In a rambled confession Mrs. Mullally reflects on aging and the heart rather than years. She recalls a cousin Katie who aged early and chose independence, sharing a comic tale of labor and judgment by a boss who preferred young workers. The piece weaves memory, resilience, and humor through Irish neighborhood speech.
A Northfield gathering near a glen watched an unusual scene as a red squirrel leaped onto a table, stole bread, and fled down a steep slope. A deerfield Endeavorer recounts the incident, noting a cooperative rescue by several squirrels and the eventual return to the woods beyond.
In the diary-like fragment the woman hides in bed two nights, terrified and sleepless, while a man describes overcoming fear by lying awake two hours listening for sounds, gripped by strain and nerves.
A narrator recalls capturing a misanthropic "General Boulanger" in a remote Montana cow town. The General, abused and distrustful, undergoes a frail rehabilitation in a trek back to camp. After countless humiliations and a dramatic escape, the General vanishes into a river as the narrator concedes the futility of reforming him.
The piece reports on a fad among certain pedestrians and medical men who advise nervous patients to wear red garments only. Mr Rankin extols red hues and mocks yellow tones, claiming color impacts mood and appears to provoke strong reactions in observers.
Eugene Richard White laments reliance on numbers to move public opinion. He argues statistics dull emotion, erode imagination, and steer policy, from famine funds to temperance, urging a return to qualitative discourse amid a rising worship of figures.
A late nineteenth century study notes a dream type where sleepers inhabit familiar houses unknown in waking life. A pair, visiting a country house matching a dream, find it haunted by a storied past, with tenants later recognizing the uncanny overlap between dream and reality. The tale underscores dream complexity and suggestive coincidences in Hutchinson's examination of dream life.
Uncle Amon and Henry discuss a peculiar daily habit of a man who shaves in front of a house, then uncover a lead about Troston the insured resident. The tale grows as Henry questions loyalty and origins, revealing long acquaintance with the neighborhood.
Homer G Wells argues in the Fortnight by Review that in the New Republic people will embrace life and death with a fatalistic philosophy. They will favor humane deterrents, avoid torture, and deem killing unnecessary when society can remove harmful individuals through more controlled means.
A collage of aphorisms and literary snippets from various authors and works. It weaves reflections on life, youth, truth, and human behavior, citing voices such as Mistress Brent Captain Butt and The Destiny of Doris, with wry observations on aging and perception.
A host entertaining a large group asks for water from the pitcher. A young man rushes to serve and quips that he is used to serving water for an elephant in a circus. The line lands awkwardly when the hostess and others react to the remark.
William T. Curtis recounts a Moscow bank visit to obtain a draft against a letter of credit. A pair of impeccably dressed aides escort him to a lavish reception room stocked with books and papers. He observes multilingual staff, a courteous clerk who processes duplicates, and an hour-long wait as he realizes he was overcharged then corrects the mistake with the bank manager.
Ban Stubbs of Ely disdains Chicago calling it a clanking wilderness of warehouses and untidy towers. The Dean recites a tale of Archdeacon Rushton in Chicago who speaks of British soldiers and farmers before a boy proclaims the colonies once thrashed them.
The tale follows a boy named Willie inspired by the idea of perpetual motion. Facing his father's warning about futile searches, he proves the concept by pulling himself up by bootstraps, demonstrating a simple imitation of perpetual motion with a harness strap. The era’s moral hints at ingenuity tempered by practicality.
Max Beerbohm critiques Dickens era Christmas spirit as a literary construct rather than a real inner tradition. He argues modern celebration follows regulation and literary survival rather than genuine spontaneous cheer.
A widower has set up a monument over an English village grave bearing verse lines from Omar Khayyam via a muddled excerpt. The inscription includes phrases about verses beneath the bow, a jug of wine, bread and thine beside me singing in the wilderness, and Paradise enough.
A French savant returning from Egypt faced tariff humor at Marseilles when customs classed his mummy as Pharaoh and taxed dried fir. another note reports rural mail routes rising from 1,276 last year to 8,600 by next July, expanding daily service to about 9,700,000 people. English papers tell how General Hamilton’s lost spectacles resurfaced on a Boer boy after twenty years. Fort Scott notes D. F. Coma’s wedding gift ritual of $1,000 plus extra, while a Scottish monument honors James Lindsay who foresaw electric towns and steamless machinery, and a Minnesota rooster with a tiny cart carries a child in a bizarre long-running trick. Northwestern University’s Delta Gamma club sparks a new Bachelor Knights society offering comical “marriage” proposals and courting the marble heart.
A Bealonian woman, aiming to help a poor family, loans gloves and receives payments of a few dollars. She spends weeks visiting weekly, but the generosity leads to repeated solicitations. The case details a charitable gesture turning into possible exploitation as the giver’s aid becomes a tempting bargain.
A dated reflection on perceived decline in intellectual standards. The author laments an abundance of “able men” who are industrious and clever but lack true genius, arguing that genuine brilliance is rarer than commonly believed and warning against prevailing mediocrity.
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