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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1895
Page
3
A bygone log house fades to ruin while a pink wild rose lingers. The narrator envisions a past scene with a housewife at a spinning wheel, a jar of pink wild roses on the sill, children at play, and a husband on the doorstep as time slowly erodes the dwelling, leaving only memory and fragrance.
Lucien De Hem awakens on Christmas Eve in a snowbound city gambling hall and recalls his ruined fortune. A sleeping child beside a hotel wall prompts pity as a stray gold louis is found in her boot. He steals the coin, places it on the midnight table, and wins on Seventeen and red bets, racing toward restoring his patrimony in a desperate, reckless run.
Lucien De Hem loses a coin, but a guilty fantasy ends with a cold death of a child. He wakes in a clubroom, then enlists as a private in the First regiment of African chasseurs. Later he becomes a lieutenant and gives alms to a sleeping Spanish girl, showing a turnaround from vice to virtue.
A Hartford Times report describes a clear night watch as the Norwegian midnight sun appears near Tremso. Observers crowd the hurricane deck and crow's nest while a naphtha launch chase captures the sun at 11 44 p m giving a moment of brilliance before it fades, leaving the crew noting the sun sets in the north and the glare of continuous daylight strains their eyes. It also includes a brief humorous aside from the Todianapolis Journal about art and time and a wry remark on opera prep.
The pretty newcomer at the governor's mansion in Atlanta has been christened Georgia Hardeman Atkinson in honor of the state whose chief magistrate is her father and Uncle Bob Hardeman, the treasurer.
William Norris, nearly 100, long known as Grandpop Norris, was sentenced by a Birmingham federal court to a year and a day of hard labor for counterfeiting. A legendary mechanical genius with near blind eyesight, he produced intricate coin molds and ran a hidden distillery in DeKalb county, Alabama assisting neighbors and friends rather than profit.
The late Adolphe Beceste killed himself after anarchists refused to blow him up, seeking a bomb death but failing to find one. He wrote letters to acquaintances claiming renown in despair, confessed his pledge to a commissaire, and lamented his boredom and lack of originality before choosing a pistol.
The United States court at Fort Smith Arkansas is noted for a judge who has sentenced 151 murderers, reputedly the highest record in the nation for this generation.
Berlin police report two year theft spree draining 26 000 barrels valued at 40000 from 19 Berlin breweries. In other item, a South Carolina widow becomes her own mother in law by marrying her father-in-law.
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