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Newspaper
Sioux County Bee
Location
Rock Valley, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
6
The article contrasts girls basketball with football, noting fewer injuries and less rough play. It describes the game setup with a goal under the basket and four teammates aiming to feed the scorer while an opponent guards the basket, highlighting growing female athletic competition and school interest.
Readers learn of small scale Lake Erie winter fishing networks with shore lines, tugs, and nets operated by local fishers. The piece highlights varied methods, seasonal patterns, and careful practices by keepers and operators, including a sailor named Tom Bowen and a strict Sabbatarian keeper.
The piece humorously recalls Lord Salisbury ignoring a mutton chop at a club while reading a book and later denying he had dined. It also notes Lord Rosebery’s impatience at long meals, a quick finish and a quip about sermons, with Bishop Creighton commenting on palatable sermons.
A newly published portrait of Sir James Nicholas Douglass, renowned English civil engineer, recounts numerous engaging episodes from his career and life in Victorian Britain. It highlights projects, character, and the era's industrial spirit through vivid anecdotes.
An English writer in Washington contrasts American class signals with European nobility. He notes strong class distinctions, solid conservatism, and limited freedom compared with colonies, observing many American practices overlaid with symbols of honor from society and past wars.
Frank Fisher of Maston Pennsylvania sold his wife to George Gardner for fifty cents. He drowned days later after being chased into the river by police following the theft of railroad iron. Mrs Fisher Gardner, aged about 25, will not wear widow's weeds and shed no tears at his death. A plant that coughs or coughing bean is described with dust-triggered breath, red face, and coughing fits. The article notes plant respiration via leaf stomata and millions of microscopic mouths on leaf undersides.
A hotel keeper possesses what may be the oldest furniture set in the world built from cased boxes totaling 4,000. He ordered a skinned cabinet maker to equip a room with switch furniture from these boxes. The outfit includes a writing table with smoking apparatus, a fire screen, a cabinet, a chair and smaller items. Also notes a remedy for damp houses near undrained land via planting techniques.
Endorsements claim Peruna strengthens vigor appetite and cures catarrh. W N Roach U S Senator from North Dakota says he used Peruna as a tonic and it aided his strength and appetite. Dr Hartman’s Peruna advertised as a universal remedy for catarrh and winter diseases.
Government backed land program promotes 160 acres of prime unsettled farming soil in Manitoba Assiniboia Saskatchewan and Alberta. Special excursions depart St Paul on the first and eighth Tuesdays monthly with reduced rail fares for trips via March 2 and April 4. Inquiries to F Pedley Ottawa or local agents N Bartholomew Des Moines W H Rogers Watertown W Bennett Omaha B Davies St Paul.
The text describes Empress Eugenie as a fashion leader whose donated shoes and gloves, once worn by the imperial household, were given annually to orphans at the Eu genie Napoleon Asylum. It notes scarce beds in Russia and a general shortage of beds.
unclear dialogue shows Chicago figures debating a deal with China. Mention of sending a shipload of pigtails for repairs appears in fragmented remarks linked to Colonel Van and wartime context. No firm action or outcome established.
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