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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1902
Page
6
Obituary notes the passing of Meek, writer of Sack Robbins of America We the China Sea Two Gentlemen of Hawaii On a False Charge and other volumes, reflecting on his literary career and impact.
Ralph Graviscourt dies by pistol shot after learning the sworn statements in the Alice Graviscourt murder plot. Antonio Sigmotta Luigi Dambo and Charles Sigmotta expose a scheme to substitute a child for Alice and to collect the Graviscourt fortune. The room falls silent as Graviscourt shoots himself rather than face capture.
Danvers returns from Europe to Dolly Pemberton at an old hotel near an apple orchard. He hides a treasured portrait, recalls past vows, and confronts guilt over his future as he encounters Dolly unexpectedly among russet leaves. The scene blends regret, romance, and a tentative reunion setting.
Laura recalls Jack’s remark during a brief visit, asserting he would kiss her or die. Belle prompts for newspaper reports, and Laura asks if any account of Jack’s death has appeared.
A compact survey of witty rejoinders that shaped reputations among jurists poets and critics. It recalls Jekyll and Dunning at the bar and James Smith Horace’s rooks motto reply to a challenge. Alfred Tennyson and Sydney Smith anecdotes illustrate brisk humor in social and intellectual circles.
Duncan Campbell Scott writes in Delineator about a lovers rose as the song of their relationship. The poem blends imagery of petals notes and moonlight with declared vows of love in a lyrical, musical conceit.
Charles Marshall and his son Harley, farmers in Springfield township Ohio, battled a swamp raccoon that wounded them severely. Marshall's face throat and body were torn, many blood vessels severed, and he may not recover. Harley also suffered severe bites as they fought the animal before it was killed.
A British Society of Arts issue highlights how German factories using science improve efficiency. Beet root crushing yields rose from 5.2 percent in 1840 to 13 percent in recent years, with 12 million tons processed producing 1.5 million tons of sugar. Growth tied to laboratories and trained scientists.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports John H. Fow, former state representative, recounting a tale about independent Republicans who claim conditions unchanged since last November. A West station incident ends with a stranger confessing, “I admit it” as proof, framed by Fow as a story.
A field tortoise shell scratched with the name Bob Williams was sent to U S Consul Evans in New Zealand as identification for a pension claim. The applicant says his real name is William Wright but served as Williams in Company H 192nd New York. The shell and affidavits accompanied by Mary Johnson of Port Henry New York and were forwarded from Christchurch to Washington by mistake.
Green County reports the remarkable cure of George F. Ayers of 16 Division Street, Catskill, after a year with Bright's Disease. Ayers credits Dodd's Kidney Pills and an old Bath, New York, well-wisher for his recovery. He recalls being at West Camp four years ago with little hope of improvement.
An old newspaper item touts Bronzo Quin ine Tablets as a cough suppressant and cold remedy priced at 2c. It includes unrelated commentary on landlords raising rents and Defiance Starch as a cold water starch, reflecting fragmented prose.
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