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Newspaper
Washington Gazette
Location
Washington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1903
Page
2
An East traveler notes Western slang among hobos and their vivid terms. Phrases describe eating, travel, lodging, and bravado, with terms for passes, tomats, crips, and the notorious hardened talk used in prisons. The piece highlights regional color and street speech in the American West.
An elderly Paris woman living at Buttes Chaumont keeps spiders as pets. She, the daughter of a former official, hosts a music loving brood in a large airy room. Her black spiders respond to harp music with fascination, retreating to their webs to quieter tunes.
In a series exploring heroism, Weir Mitchell interviews survivors of dangerous deeds to assess whether acts are driven by deliberate choice or impulse. Read about Ferrie Fowler who saved her sister Grace from a streetcar, a New Jersey mother stopping a bull to save her husband, and a Vancouver mother rescuing her child amid a house fire.
Diagram details a 15-cable network linking North America to Europe with routes by Anglo American, Commercial, United States, French, German, and Europe Azores cables. It notes a great circle from Wollfleet to Lands End, passing near Marconi’s Talste Head station, and a 100 fathom depth contour under 600 feet.
A woman dressed for a dance asks her husband to leave extra money and items. He hints that a “natural accessory” to the gown is needed. She suggests a set of items while he questions what she means and implies the request is for the gown itself. The exchange shows social expectations and humorous miscommunication.
The piece discusses how doctors judge lung health through stethoscope findings. It explains healthy breath sounds as pleasant and soft, and describes dry wheezing in bronchitis and crackling notes in pneumonia. It also mentions dripping sounds from air and water in chest and the bottled air analogy for chest cavities.
Painter Wil Low recalls Robert Louis Stevenson and Law as lifelong friends from youth. In a Montmartre garden a heated party member hurled a bottle, which Stevenson caught in midair with grace and wit, then admonished the thrower to calm the scene.
Fragmentary verse about nature and piety, mentioning flowers, growth, nourishment, and a sacramental theme. References a Father Tabb figure, with scattered images of sowers, nurses, and vanishing jokes, all in a faded, misread text.
Elmer Dover the private secretary to Senator Hanna visited Cleve Jani during holidays where Toledo lawyer Cooper boasted he could name every current and past U S senator and most House members. Dover and others bet tobacco, and Cooper proved his claim in about thirty minutes, winning cigars for the summer.
The French Legion of Honor lists 37 190 chevaliers 5 990 officers 5 059 commanders 218 grand officers and 55 Grand Croix in the hierarchy of the order.
The Portuguese tried cattle farming in Newfoundland in 1653 but all traces of the imported animals have vanished.
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