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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Mar 07, 1901
Page
7
Fragmentary poem prose describes a dreamlike garden scene in Tuscany with marble fountains and distant music. It names Cherlotte Becker as author in Ainster's Magazine, amid blurred sensory images under a hot moon tide.
An American engineer and a Chicago friend visit the abandoned inn near Zacatecas. After mysterious events and a violent night, they flee as the building catches fire and later find only charred walls left to puzzle over.
A teacher reads a fable about a farmer who traps a field of corn with a net to protect it from birds. The caught stork pleads for liberty while the farmer condemns him for bad company, prompting a pupil’s handwritten version about character and freedom.
A fragment shows Mr Spur geon recounting how Charley and Jack were used as name shuffles by a hospitable man named Mr B. The exchange escalates as both sides switch names to test reactions and social dynamics.
A passage criticizes undue familiarity with men of position including ministers of the gospel. It argues that calling them by familiar nicknames is unworthy and should not be indulged, reflecting a stance on propriety in social conduct.
Robert Barr recalls speaking with Bret Harte about Thoreau at Walden Pond and the contrast with modern writers. Harte says living on parsed peas sounds fine in a book. Emerson’s wife notes Thoreau stayed within hearing of their dinner table.
A Boston Watchman poem urges patience with the living after death. It muses on posthumous praise and fault, urging forgiveness and restraint to spare future sorrow. The speaker appeals to a "Sweet friend" and "Eve" to learn gentleness and enduring mercy in life.
Charles B. Lewis recounts four white hunters in Africa who meet a gorilla that grabs Joe, the boy of a native helper, and carries him off. The crew pursues the animal, abandoning a search for elephants to rescue the boy and confront the unexpected threat in the jungle.
A wild pursuit follows a gorilla that abducted a boy. After a long search, the boy returns alone with a tale of a nest in a banyan tree. The gorilla fights a lion during a tense night, then flees the area, leaving no trace of either creature.
In the St Etienne region of France wood pulp is chemically processed into delicate silky threads. The pulp is formed into tubes with tiny holes and extruded as silklike filaments. These threads are dried and wound onto bobbins for weaving, remarkable for their silklike appearance.
A passerby argues that mistaking a cheaper option for a genuine article reflects misjudgment in pricing. Analysts note the confusion can mislead buyers about authenticity and value.
A speaker argues against jokes labeling bachelors as savage or selfish. He notes married men have more chances to reveal faults, while bachelors lack similar opportunities to display bad traits. The widow counters that few married men warrant such a view of a bachelor.
A fragment quotes Labouchere criticizing public dinners and after dinner speeches. The speaker dislikes rich entrees wine and gorging, finding no pleasure in watching others dine and preferring a funeral where there is no eating drinking or speechmaking.
The essay notes England offers two critical perks for the wealthy a vast personal service pool and rapid economical access to life essentials. It argues English middle-class service lags while factory labor elsewhere persists, yet wealthy can still secure efficient honest help from butlers valets ladies maids and housekeepers more readily in England than abroad.
Two gunboats on the Nile years ago hunted slave traders. Slavers cut channels through the sudd marshes to escape, causing the current to trap vegetation and dam the river. The Nile flood failed, leaving thousands of peasants without crops and near starvation.
Alberta Gafiatin plans to exploit an 8 Nell Gwynn play. James O Neill has played Monte Christe about 5000 times. Mark Twain and William Dean Howells plays await managers’ review. Sol Smith Russell delays acting until next season. Bronson Howard rewrites Shenandosh into an African war play Ladysmith. A Jacksonville incident wounded an actor. Francis Carlyle notes Boston audiences kiss the villain loudly. Madame Modjeska announces a farewell US tour. William A Brady may stage Way Down East in London next summer. Grace George may appear in Britain. William Girlette is said to long for a simple country life. Coquelin contrasts timidity on stage with a touring actor’s fearfulness.
A Yonkers Statesman humor item notes two farmers banter about plowing a ten acre field. One claims thinking about plowing, the other clarifies no actual work occurred, prompting the quip that the field was only turned over in the mind.
Under the Trees a playful scene shows Miss Golf and Mr Junebug exchanging quips about puppies and marriage proposals in a light schoolyard moment.
The judge and Maud Muller reappear years later at a circus tent entrance. The judge notes her faded appearance and the washboard marks on her fingers while Maud regards his bald head and protruding stomach. They listen to the clown’s jokes as they pass in.
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