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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1902
Page
5
Poem expresses longing for a loved one under starlit skies. The speaker imagines the beloved’s eyes guiding thoughts like waves, seeks intimate moments in night hours when angels watch over men, and likens the beloved to a star, angel, and dream enduring beyond daylight.
Helen Harvey spends a northern Wisconsin vacation at her aunt's cottage by Lake Michigan. She meets a romantic woodsman named Lohengrin who shelters her during a storm and shares a magical day before she returns with a bittersweet decision to marry him in the end, after reconciling with Tom.
A Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station visit near New Haven inspired a professor to illustrate a cigar smoking device to his sons. The boys then built a similar attic apparatus and began coloring a meerschaum pipe, much to their father’s astonishment.
Henry Sienkiewicz writes in red ink for all manuscripts and refuses to use any other color ink. This distinctive habit accompanies his process for drafting works such as Quo Vadis.
Miss Gisela Elfreschitz is admitted to the Vienna Watchmakers Guild, marking a historic milestone for women in the craft and the city’s horology community.
Phrase fragment notes a social observation about limited access to marijuana and occasional smiles among a small group, reflecting economic or cultural constraints.
A dramatic lyric questions whether a daisy proves true love as Suzette teases with shifting mood and petals fall. The piece blends a romantic dialogue with a hazy aside about coconuts and palm products, mentioning cocoanut oil and related uses.
A British inquiry into Laurium silver mines shows slag heaps hidden a treasure. The site yielded poppies dormant for two millennia, revived by sunlight alone when exposed to the furnace and exposed slag, blooming vigorously without water.
A long thin flame rises through a glass or metal tube and roars when exposed to air drafts. Placed near a window it makes loud noise to deter intruders if the window is opened.
Henry Stork of Grand Bay Alabama encountered two large diamond-back rattlesnakes while walking with his two young daughters. He struck once with an eight foot club, stunning and killing both snakes that appeared to be playfully fighting. The snakes measured 5 feet 9 inches and 5 feet 7 inches, both 14 inches in circumference.
About 306 million coconut palms bear fruit worldwide. Used for wood in buildings and boats, leaves for thatch and cattle feed, leaves also for brooms, ashes rich in potash for soap. Trunks yield oil barrels pipes, roots a red dye, fibers ropes mats and even paper. Kernel feeds people.
A magnified view of the epidermis on a human hand notes a horny protecting layer. The thickness ranges from 1 24 to 1 240 inch, thickest on palms and soles. It cites pigments in cells as the cause of skin color in Africans and Indians.
The statue, one of Rameses II’s famed Memphis colossi, rises on heavy stone pedestals after a long burial in the Nile. Once at the temple doors of Ptah, the monument faces centuries of decay amid crumbling granite remains.
Ornithologists warn Guilding's amazon parrot once found on Souffriere in St. Vincent is likely extinct after the recent volcanic eruption. Once displaced by 1718, hurricane of 1898, and now the May eruption, the few survivors are said to have perished.
In old days umbrellas were deemed effeminate and reserved for women. A fashionable woman was served by a slave to hold the umbrella overhead.
Charles W. Osborne of Greenbrier W Va and Lena Johnson of Roncerverte W Va sought a marriage license at the probate court. Osborne collapsed in the interrogation and was thought dead for about an hour. Physicians revived him and the license was issued, followed by the wedding.
Massachusetts women golfers congratulate themselves for adding excitement by playing through a rainstorm. The scene captures sport enthusiasm and improvisation under wet conditions.
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