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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1902
Page
2
In a cold snowfall a trio returns from a card party. Donelson wins in advance. Morton brownnoses envy while Edith Wilson debates fate. Jack Morton confesses love. Edith resolves doubt, a quiet departure follows. Donelson ends with a devious congratulations to Morton.
A correspondent argues against protecting the seagull citing it as a fish pirate. The piece predicts eventual laws to shield coast fishing will label gulls as enemies. It notes gulls can decimate turbo fish and even an alderman would be legislated for harming fisheries.
The excerpt notes a playful take on ping-pong language and grammar as presented by the New York Sun. It compares skill in ping-pong to other sports and jokes about verb inflection in the present tense with phrases like I ping thou pongest.
A noted Irish barrister Tom Nolan faces Chief Justice Shea of the Marine Court. Nolan speaks with fervor while Justice Shea interrupts with a firm denial. The exchange centers on the barrister’s Point 1 and 2 as the case unfolds in scholarly rhetoric.
Ex judge Miles Hoffman of Arkansas recounts a personal night illness that left his wife alarmed, fearing he might be dead as he recovered. The anecdote, noted by the New York Times, captures a moment of quiet, near fainting, and a wife’s anxious vigil.
The London Chronicle reports that Turkey's vast spy network infiltrates all social levels and rival organizations, with ministers of police and dignitaries maintaining private services. Citizens avoid gatherings, conversations become loud in public, and paranoia grows as espionage spreads across society.
Naturalist M J H Fabre presents a detailed account of the praying mantis. The insect, pale green with veiled wings and a nunlike head, waits on bushes for prey and uses its toothed forearms to seize and devour victims sacrificing its prey in a single strike. In Provence it is nicknamed prego Dieou meaning pray to God.
A housekeeper discards mold found in a jar while a botanist would study it with a microscope. The gray green mold forms a fine spore dust and a delicate frost like tracery, showing massed fungous plants in decay. The spores sprout and grow upward forming a grayish green mat ready to spread.
In a Paris anecdote linked to the Dumas centenary, a letter addressed to "the greatest poet in Paris" was sent by the post office to Lamartine. He brought it to Victor Hugo, they debated who should open it, and Hugo drew the letter intended for Alfred de Musset, reading “My dear Alfred.”
An Englishman complains of rail inadequacies in Britain and cites a London and North Western Office incident. He sought a dining car ticket to a northern town, found a miswritten route and price, and was told no telephone existed to reserve a seat, only a postponed message to Huston.
Col Dan Turner of Memphis explains rail crime as a group discusses wrongdoing in the region. A contractor finds a stolen traction engine boiler later in a blacksmith shop where the missing parts had been hidden, revealing the thief’s plan to haul the boiler away.
A resident describes ping pong as a nuisance in apartments, noting nightly furniture rearrangements and the constant ping pong sounds from the drawing room above. The writer argues the game suits flats yet creates disturbance for neighbors living directly beneath.
A Lexington avenue music dealer’s wall sign read What’s home without a piano The painter altered it to What is home without a plane Peace The word peace replaced piano and the sign was removed and rehung behind plate glass in a restrained alteration that protected the original intent.
The great gray gander of Danville Pennsylvania has died at age 35 years. Raised by J. R. Phillips and bequeathed to his daughter, he later came to Mrs. Agnes Walker of Sidler Hill. He was blind for a year and nearly immobile in recent months. He grew bald long ago and wore mud to hide his topknot. He was the town's oldest goose and mourned by residents.
In the Waldorf cafe a group including J. J. Hill debated a new Wall Street operator. One observer scoffed that the mover acted on impulse like a drowning man, while Hill offered a nautical parable about climbing a straw and being saluted by the crew as the sea turned to champagne.
The Providence city faces debts tied to Roger Williams Park. The land descended from Roger Williams to his descendants, then to two sisters Rhoda and Betsy Williams who kept the old homestead alive amid a mortgage. The piece traces how a park tied to early New England legacy remained in family hands.
The Williams sisters agreed to preserve their old home and mortgage by donating it to the city. Roger Williams Park now preserves the Williams homestead where Williams died and Betsy died soon after, with the well he dug nearby and the ancestral burying ground kept in neat order.
Chancellor Goji Ukita lectures on Japan’s imperial regalia the mirror the sword and the divine jewels noting their copper steel stone composition. He explains the legends of the Sun Goddess Susenoo and the eight headed serpent, the Room of the Sword, and the priestess guarding the mirror as symbols of knowledge courage and mercy vital to imperial rule.
In The Leisure Hour Henniker Heaton recounts Charles Stewart Parnell’s detachment during the Times forged Pigott letters controversy. Parnell allegedly claimed to have discovered a western Australian gold mountain and later presented analysis aligning with Johnston Matthey & Co, testing minerals in Wicklow while his followers opposed the Times. The anecdote ends noting it is easier for God to work a wonder than to comprehend it.
A Philadelphia druggist shares a collection of humorous reader letters about cures and prescriptions with quirky requests. The notes include odd remedies and patient miscommunications alongside a few jokes about open doors and Long Island peculiarities.
John Murdoch of Dundee who died at Craig Lockhart hydropathic planned a public scheme in his last will and testament. He bequeathed over £60,000 to aid indigent bachelors and widowers, open to any religious denomination. Beneficiaries must show practical sympathy in science and have sobriety and morality.
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