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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Herald
Location
Eldora, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1905
Page
7
In a fogbound London scene a group of guards seize a man mistaken for Quentin Waters. Anthony Byrne the tinker denies the charge, explains he only sought supper, and describes his encounter with the patrol. The misidentification angers the company until the captain re-arrests the smiling prisoner.
In a foggy escape the narrator asks Rosemary to borrow a jeweled locket but keeps the risky secret paper hidden. He plans to brief her later, then rides away from the Ivy town toward Long Haut to bury his father, promising return in five days while guarding a delicate family secret.
The narrator wakes in a dim room to the sight of Pretty Alice Lynson at his bedside. He learns he has been unconscious for five days after a head injury, while Alice explains the situation and warns of the chirurgeon. She offers medicine and promises to recount the long tale with Gil’s chatter muted.
A narrator recalls a sudden assault as a fight erupts before them. A whispered identification breaks through the chaos, colors flash, and a desperate grasp for safety follows before darkness ends the scene.
Observant readers note signs before a storm. Chickweed and scarlet pim petals open, bees quicken, crickets sing, and squirrels hoard nuts as hints of rain or cold weather. If poplar leaves turn to the winter side, rain may follow. barometers are imperfect, but rheumatics claim early warning.
A financier, Binmarck, jokes with Tron Cross about a hero in the ranks offering a cross for cash. The confidant asks the value of the cross and names a taler amount, then proposes taking the cross and paying pennies in a quip about thalers.
The text argues ambition can be cultivated and sparked by books lectures or kind words, warning that fading ambition signals environmental or health issues. It shifts to seasonal home crafts with ideas for tray coverings doglies centerpieces and linen cushion tops and pillow designs using white handkerchief linen and hemstitched edges.
Andrew Carnegie visited Worthampton Massachusetts for the Home Culture Club dedication and met a Mount Holyoke College faculty member who thanked him for his $56,000 library gift. He asked if the gift was long ago, and she replied that it was not so very long.
A Mount Holyoke woman explains the gift circumstances to Mr. Carnegie, but he seems to have forgotten about it as the building remains undedicated.
Horticulturist Tubner Burbank has developed a carnation that shifts color over the first three bloom days. It starts white on day one, turns pink on day two, and becomes a deep red on day three, a hue kept until fading. Gophers previously destroyed this carnation type, but Burbank continues efforts to recreate it.
An uncounted treasury bill for 100 dated 1745 was presented to the Bank of England. It is genuine and believed issued at 3 percent compound interest. Its present value is quoted at 26000 pounds or 130000 dollars. The treasury has not yet noted it but is expected to do so.
A tale from early San Francisco recalls eggs worth their weight in gold. Tennessee bound youths order a costly breakfast, face a ten dollar bill with five dollars, seek Col. Gift who learns eggs equal gold in California, and provides a fifty dollar slug to cover the bill, warning they are not in Tennessee.
The year’s Cuban shell and tortoise products were valued near 75000 dollars while sponges totaled about 500000 dollars. The United States bought roughly 35 percent of the sponges with Europe taking the rest, France being the main buyer.
The pope shows strong interest in a project to establish a museum in St Peter's containing art objects and documents related to the church history.
The Endicott mansion in Danvers Massachusetts a historic home linked to Nathaniel Ingersoll Joseph Peabody George Peabody and Mary Endicott sits as a landmark of history art and romance Mrs Endicott the widow of Judge William Endicott and mother in law of Joseph Chamberlain hosted visits by the British statesman The estate once served as a summer retreat and a training field marker notes its long lineage through Salem and early colonial figures with ties to John Endicott the horizontal governor and chains of notable families enduring through generations
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