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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1899
Page
2
The narrator recalls Meg the cheery nurse who stayed with John and Kitty through November. Her forgetfulness with medicine led to a double dose once, yet the patient recovered quickly. Meg defends her benevolent stay, sparking unease as John grows tired of the tête-à-tête interruptions.
Meg reveals a past romance to Kitty as she recalls a youthful letter affair with a mysterious hero. A breakfast ghost and a postman delivery spark memory of a century-old passion, while John prepares to share a private secret in his study.
In a sunlit entrance Meg hides a third letter from John while a postman arrives. The envelope bears handwriting Meg recognizes as her long-ago lover Arthur Les le, also known as Arthur St. John, tied to Madame Arnaud. Meg recalls a childish romance and a grave private note about love letters she keeps.
The scene follows a chilly afternoon as the narrator shops and Meg sits by the fire. Her hair is unkempt and dress unchanged, elbows on knees, chin resting on hands, lost in thought.
A set of new devices described includes a self opening counterweighted gate design and a weatherproof side windowed streetcar, a rapid card shuffler using a revolving cirewar box, a low cost streetcar fare register held in the hand with a sliding yoke, and a German ether and chloroform delivery apparatus with a diaphragm fitting a metallic tube for airtight inhalations.
Progress and Reform notes the Presbyterian Church of England adds 1805 communicants in the past year. The United Brethren church opens a kindergarten and primary school at Ponce Puerto Rico.
Special Boston Letter describes the unique rolling lift bridge over Fort Point Channel built for the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad. It spans six parallel tracks, weighs about six million five hundred seventy pounds, and operates by electricity from a single control point.
The New York Commercial Advertiser praises an ornate desk as a romantic treasure. It notes Flemish styles with secret panels and jewel cavities, griffins and Cupid carvings, pigeon holes, hidden compartments, and a velvet-lined cave for jewels and documents.
The article describes a pivoted bridge span with a reciprocating horizontal motion, driven by a fifty horsepower motor and a cast steel rack. It details triangular riveted trusses, curved track guidance, and square rolling ends, plus support by skew piers and adjustable wedges for height.
The article discusses the old custom of throwing a shoe after a newly married couple and its possible origins in marriage by capture, noting how the practice has sparked curiosity about its survival and meaning.
Senator Hoar proposed action to reduce drunkenness in Washington as he complained a man cannot walk along lower Pennsylvania Avenue without stumbling into a drunk. Senator Ingalls responded with a witty retort noting the converse problem of a drunken man stumbling into a passerby. The senate chuckled at the implied jab.
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