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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1898
Page
5
Alfred Scammel weds Mary Moulton beside Oak Hill cemetery grave in Blue Rapids Kansas. The ceremony followed the mother’s death on February 15 after planning the postponed wedding set for February 13. The couple knelt at the marker as minister proclaimed them man and wife amid somber sunset and graveyard vigil.
A Philadelphia apple vendor alerted a nearby officer to theft by two boys. One boy distracted the vendor with acrobatics while another pilfered apples through a window sucker. The routine was observed, and both youths were arrested. the vendor spared prosecution if they reform.
A patient at a major city hospital feigned dying to summon doctors and nurses, insisting she was dying while her condition was malaria related. She dictated calls and demanded the entire hospital be present, though doctors noted no severe illness and she was improving toward convalescence.
NGA BEGAN TO ARRANGE HER HAIN call the doctors. She did not go, however, but stepped back and looked through the crack of the door. The patient was using her arms vigorously. She smoothed the bed covers, pulled at the lace at her throat, and then began to arrange her hair. She pulled it, patted it and curled it over her fingers. Then she arranged herself across her pillow in a graceful attitude, assumed an expression calculated to provoke sympathy, and waited. She waited for the doctors and the nurses, and, incidentally, death. The expected guests did not arrive. Tered ic Bat Corsccks, Andrew J. Bull, who has lived in Tippecanoe county, Ind., for over 70 years, tells a number of interesting incidents of early life, the most amusing at which had Alexander Sims for a victim. In that early day the report had just got out that green corn made a very palatable food, and Mr. Sims, who, by the way, was the owner of the first cooking stove ever brought into the county, learned the manner of its preparation and had it served in his boiled state at his own table. The tasted and enjoyed the corn, but had trouble when he began to eat the cob as well as the grain, thinking the latter too good that he concluded the former must be even better. It was his experience, Mr. Bull declares, that gave the people of this community their first knowledge of how green corn should be served and eaten. Gather Tens 1 Pennies, About ten tons of pennies are gathered every three weeks from the pennyda-thealor gas meters of London.
The London Illustrated News notes Emperor William II favored naval interests from youth with a toy frigate sent to Frederick William III. At Potsdam a naval station guards this vessel as bluejackets maintain it. The model appears tiny beside real ships but towers in imagination, built as a full rigged three master scaled to a single sailor’s effort.
A fragment from a colonial era diary describes the Royal Louise frigate launched at Woolwich in 1892, its minute dimensions, methods of moving along rivers, and its role as a curiosity symbol. The piece reflects on naval heritage, German-American patent law, and Hawaiian land statistics.
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