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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
3
Ripley D. Saunders, writing from St. Louis Republic, muses on divine patience and guidance as life’s sorrows unfold like aged plays. He ponders whether God smiles on humanity, gently steering through fame, fortune, and tragedy toward an ending where evening shadows fade.
John Hampton learns his wife Madeline will not be controlled. She uses a planned lesson to show he married for a housekeeper and companionship, not love, prompting a vow to try a real honeymoon later with mutual respect.
Poem by Joseph Russell Taylor in Scribner's captures a stormy mood as rain nears from the north, the air alive with birds and blossoms. The narrator invites the reader to watch as light fades and valleys darken under falling rain, praising nature's response with vivid imagery.
The article recounts how a jeweler’s wife fell prey to her husband’s consuming passion for gems. It details the peril she faced and how she was ultimately saved from the fiend by timely intervention.
In a Rhine city a handsome jeweler forswears love for gems. He marries Mina, a poor inn girl, but monomania for jewels drives him to murder and ruin. After Mina dies, he buries his hoard near her grave. at last a ruby returns as guilt consumes him and he dies beside her tomb with the jewels hidden beneath the earth.
In Plougastel Brittany a single annual wedding day honors St Frances, the village commemorates by a civil ceremony at the town hall followed by a three‑time village procession to the church. A communal banquet then feeds all guests with around 2000 attending the feast.
Plates were conspicuously missing with about one plate for every four guests. Despite the shortage, the Plougast elites reportedly enjoyed themselves capitally during the six days of ceremonies.
Sir Thomas jokes a sturdy boat can beat the Sham rock while Duncan praises the metal defender. Vermilye comments on the challenge and the team claims confidence in their Iron Constitution and improved craft.
A Scottish laird, noting his costly day with a 15 shillings per brace, laments the loss of game. His keeper Donald replies with dry humor, suggesting the laird saved a tidy sum through the missed shot.
A Paris newspaper notes the sedan chair still exists in Orléans near Paris. On Sundays at mass its passengers are elderly or disabled, borne through the streets by sturdy carriers while the jolting carriage discomforts them.
A dealer in musical instruments shares a home remedy for a high gloss piano finish. Mix four tablespoonfuls sweet oil four of turpentine one teaspoon lemon juice and ten drops household ammonia. Shake well apply with old cloth rub into the grain with a second cloth and finish with a third.
A Florida fruit grower notes locals avoid cutting a pineapple across. They pare it and cut lengthwise or not, using the trimmed crown as a handle. They eat it with or without the core, similar to how New Englanders eat corn, claiming flavor improves and strings are reduced.
The age of lace can be dated by thread origin and edging style. Machine made thread appears after the early eighteenth century, earlier threads are twenty inches or so. Bride’s lace hints help. shapes of knots and scallops indicate medieval to modern periods.
A German traveler reports quaint Tyrolean tomb inscriptions. The widow Anna Kriedl is remembered for forty years of faithfulness. A miller and a farmer with initials are commemorated in Christian remembrance. A man who died after a fall is laid to rest as Jacob Hosennkopf. A desolate husband laments that tears cannot restore the departed.
The Lion bridge near Sangang in China is described as the world’s longest, stretching 544 miles across an arm of the Yellow sea. It is supported by 200 massive stone arches with a roadway seventy feet above the water and enclosed in an iron network.
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