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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1902
Page
2
A poetic fragment laments distance and longing. The speaker asks for a guiding light from the loved one in a new window to ease lonely wandering, referencing stars, air, and the sun as carriers of affection. The piece appears attributed to Douglas Hemingway in Munsey.
In a veranda quarrel of manners and schemes, Marjorie and Alice guide two girls to test a seduction ploy named Tamer Number Two. The plan backfires as Bessie traps Willie Brighton, but the outcome reveals an engagement with Mr English, surprising the group and ending their confidences.
American drillers are invited to compete for a $5,000 prize offered by Oaxaca State. The winner must drill and commission an artesian well in Oaxaca City or nearby towns within three years. Tax exemptions extend for ten years after completion, and the winner gains exclusive rights to the well and its use. Applications go to the Oaxaca governor.
A retired English army officer, eager for a photograph, visits a London studio only to be told by the photographer that she specializes in ladies, children, flowers and pretty objects, not men. He endures a comical dressing room routine before the studio confrontation.
Article recalls a Gladstone prophecy about America challenging Britain's commercial dominance. It cites his remark that America may “wrest from us that commercial primacy” and become “the head servant in the great household of the world.” The piece also mentions verse about night gates and notes on the longest day, then reports Japan ordering armor plate from a Sheffield firm.
In a domestic exchange from the New York Times a husband and wife spar over finding a fan before they leave. After a tense search through dressers, boxes, and a bonnet, the fan is finally found on the hall rack.
A mother trains her two year old prodigy with a picture book, teaching animals and their actions. The child recites names and functions with growing confidence, impressing visitors with memory and novelty. The piece hints at parental pride and child development theories.
A handsome young trolley conductor in a Pennsylvania village is surrounded by friends and neighbors as passengers. He is asked for fare advances, delays for social calls, and even entrusted with children and personal duties on trips, culminating when a mother offers a dollar and he reveals a six month old at home.
A Cushing mother and her four year old visit a photographer. The child cannot sit still despite the photographer's gentle persuasion. He asks the mother to leave the child, then reveals a harsh line he uses to compel quiet. The tale ends with the child repeating the rude remark the photographer supposedly used.
A traveler seeking a drink stops at a farmhouse on a hot July afternoon. A barefoot country girl passes him a dipper and, after playful eye contact, hints at a future name change to Mrs. Mary Jane Smiler, noting it could be Mrs. Mary Jane Simpkins before next winter.
A young man seeks etiquette guidance for visiting a young lady with a friend noting it is bad form to sit first but allowed in certain cases. Also referenced is Lake Titicaca in Tibet at high elevation and the Dead Sea as the lowest point at 1,290 feet below sea level.
Popular Science describes two Hey burn inventions from Wallace Idaho aimed at improving locomotive safety. One uses a heavy pilot with diagonal front faces to deflect and reduce telescope in head on crashes. A rear car guard with a jointed connection and special coupling aids switching and drilling. The second design adds a V shaped impact surface and an adjustable locomotive guard to shift the pilot for best derailment avoidance.
The article describes a nozzleless extinguisher by Louis Verlin using acid and alkali to create a mist once an electric switch is closed. It envisions multiple units activated by a single circuit for rapid, automatic fire suppression on factory floors.
An 1890s report describes a folding high chair with a front tray and adjustable seat by Alfred Hunting of Iron Mountain Michigan. It also passes mention of Elizabeth Meyer Springfield VI and a novelty game where balls on pins must be impaled in order without sliding, as part of amusements for children.
Mr H A Ward recounts a large meteorite at Bacubirito on the Rio Sinaloa unearthed by a farmer in 1871 when he split its base and found a bright surface resembling a silver mine. The meteorite measures 13 ft 1 in long and about 50 tons in mass.
Dr. C. K. Wead studied four holed instruments in museums showing pentatonic and equal divisions. He argues instruments precede scales, with repetition of similar elements guiding tone structure. Theoretical scales are seen as a late cultural development.
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