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Newspaper
The Indianapolis Journal
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1902
Page
21
A village boy Hans and his cow stray into a forbidden mountain vineyard ruled by mischievous spirits. After a warning from a girl, Hans is captured by tiny hosts and brought to the spirits palace where the mountain fairy king questions him, promising consequences for his trespass.
The tale recounts Hans wrongly accused by a wary king and his cow and vineyard seized. A helpful village girl warns him to stay and use mistletoe to escape coercion. Hans outwits the fairy court, frees villagers, wins back the farm, and marries the helper, living to old age with annual visits from the fairy king.
A damaged text fragment presents a poem line from Isaiah and a reflective verse about aging after a loved one’s death. The voice contemplates gates of joy closed, not grieving excessively to spare the beloved, and hints at memory and aged weariness.
A compilation of plural Q and A items covers flag origins with William Driver, Mecca of the Ameer of Asgiant, cavalry actions, Marcus Aurelius, Danish purchased islands, Claribel the composer, religious demographics, presidential births and deaths, the trade dollar, the Thirty Years' War, wireless telegraphy, Abyssinia, Cortelyou tenure, and Pestalozzi. It also asks about royal salaries, Babylonian library finds, wedding announcements etiquette, raters Clark, and a short sketch of the Tweed ring.
A Philadelphia Record item recounts a College Settlement worker who used a baby bath ruse with washing soda to convince poor families that soda powder prevented colds. The ploy led to repeated requests and more families receiving the soda, improving cleanliness for babies previously unwashed.
The piece notes Marconi’s wireless telegraph and cites Wendell Phillips predicting a no-wires future. It recalls a July 2 1565 Boston festival speech in Music Hall and comments that, though Phillips did not live forty years, wireless messages are now possible for short distances and may fulfill his prophecy in time.
The passage recalls Henry Ward Beecher in Star Papers with March imagery of conflict and victory. It evokes a waking world, hidden birds voices, and sensory details as ice retreats, fields thaw, and palms lift, signaling renewal and seasonal change.
A colored voter recalls doubts about Marse Bill running for governor but, after witnessing his decisive act of pulling a stump and throwing a mule, concludes his eye is set on the United States Senate.
A poetic farewell in wistful verse. The speaker asks a beloved to forget and move on while recalling a cultivated love that grew despite hardship. Images of sheaves, poppy leaves, sea wind, and harvests frame the enduring yet fading romance.
The essay critiques English households that avoid purchasing books, preferring to borrow or read at clubs while spending lavishly on dinners, carpets, and cabinets. It argues that a life without books is a cage, contrasting vast libraries with modest rooms that foster reading, and highlighting how ordinary people can become avid buyers through insight and example.
Washington Post chronicles a beautified segment of the Capitol where new committee rooms replace the old Congressional Library space. Frescoes of nymphs adorn corridors, but Senator Kean quips that the figures are the pictures of our typewriters, delivering a wry political joke.
A fragment reports on egg production and shell economy, noting hens economizing on shells despite lime price. It mentions a person hoping to hatch twenty four chicks, or twelve, amid market attention to covbie eggs and a science inquiry.
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