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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1903
Page
2
A garbled mash of jokes, quotes, and curios from a Beaver Herald page. It references Maude Thomas, Mark Twain, Kipling, Russian topics, price hints, and social notes, with scattered names like Potter Palmer and Astor. Overall, it reads as a collage of humor and society items rather than a cohesive story.
A serialized tale continues with Annie Hyde receiving hopeful letters from Cornelia Moran and Arenta Van Ariens, revealing past loves and marital confessions. Cornelia grapples with mistaken letters, states of fortune, and elegant social tribulations while Arenta endures hardship and recounts a courtroom scene praising Jefferson as a symbol of liberty.
Fragmented reminiscences recount a graceful departure from France aided by officials, then shift to a New York City statesman Whitman defending integrity amid political chatter. A tabled anecdote follows about an elderly gallant on a train entertaining two young ladies, ending with a blunt joke about his appearance.
In clipped dialect the dialogue traces a coal businessman nicknamed Skinner who vanished last winter. The speaker notes Skinner moved to Arizona a month ago, with rumors he joined a stage coach line and fell into rot undirected labor. The exchange hints at a wider rural gossip network about a highway venture by a man and weighman.
Narratives from veterans including Geren W. Loman of Salem Virginia recount beliefs that some women served as men in the Confederate army. Loman, a seventeen year old prisoner, describes limited instances and a Union officer pressuring him to switch sides. Item also notes a horse’s devotion to a dying master and various Civil War anecdotes from newspaper clippings.
A jumble of historical notes touches on flood risk along the Arkansas River in Oklahoma and East Gibson, a grotesque valuation of Earl of Yarmouth’s estate, wealth of New York churches, traction engines on Western ranches, Ohio employment offices with 270 thousand applicants, an ancient Celtic urn unearthed in Saffron Walden, and a critique that bacteriology diverts attention from overall health in The London Lancet.
The eight een months old giant son of a baker at Drievers arrived for examination, towering at three and a half feet. He measures thirty six acies around the chest and is described amid other curious notes from the era. London’s animal statistics and the Shaffer brothers’ remarkable ages are also recounted.
A Topeka Capital printer story alleged William Allen White wore a plug hat at a Roosevelt dinner. White, editor of the Emporia Gazette and Bayville author, returned to Emporia and sent a dispatch denying the report. He says a mob forms at the office and seeks legal counsel while printers threaten a strike.
Mothers should know exact foods for babies in heat and with sours milk. A two year old suffered severe stomach troubles in August and recovered after using Grape Nuts, which the family credits with saving the child. The note ends by praising Grape Nuts for its health benefits in hot weather.
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