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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1908
Page
3
To Lake Wenatchee Chiwaukum stage line meets trains daily at Chiwaukum. Nine miles to foot of lake. Good fishing. Fare $1.50. Oliver Bates, proprietor.
The Globe Hotel located at Cor First Ave and Main St Seattle will be at Soap Lake for ten days starting the 19th or 20th of this month.
Henry E. Reed says the appointment of managers completes the $600,000 appropriation process for the exposition. District Attorney Elmer E. Todd certified the securities and approved the stock, with Secretary Geddes expected to visit Seattle soon as disbursing officer of the government board.
Austin Strong recalls Robert Louis Stevenson watching him play from a bed as a captain aboard a chair ship. The young captain sailed through storms until stepping ashore drew Stevenson from his bed to shout Swim you swim prompting a shared, lively moment between uncle and nephew.
A broken glass secured between two books and rubbed with a silk handkerchief makes paper figures dance and perform antics on the table. The setup uses lightweight or tis sue paper to create dolls dogs and other figures that move when the glass is rubbed vigorously.
Five hundred Ute Indians who revolted and terrorized after fleeing Utah will travel 900 miles from Rapid City South Dakota to return Friday under escort of a captain and ten cavalrymen. The return follows a conference between Chief and President Roosevelt and the chief pledged good behavior.
An Odessa correspondent notes cigarettes and tea as entrenched Russian customs in banks, post offices, and telegraphs. Clerks smoke privately behind counters while tea is served by waitresses and provided by the establishment. The scene suggests a nation where tobacco and tea are everyday fixtures of work life.
The Massachusetts General Court issued the earliest U S patent in 1648 designating a monopoly to Joseph Jenkes of Lynn for water driven engines. The fourteen year grant barred export and set price moderation. Jenkes, an English immigrant, built the first fire engine in America and crafted dies for Pine Tree coinage. He died in 1682 at about eighty one.
The text argues that myths arise from the natural human drive to explain phenomena before science. It asserts that both savage and civilized minds seek the "reason why" and that mythmaking begins when attention is drawn to an intelligible phenomenon, a view echoed by anthropologist Edward Tylor.
Puck describes a bustling factory where novels are produced in stages. Foreman explains the process with plots punched at machines and description stitched by hand, then finished and cut into chapters. The piece critiques mass production of literature.
A fragment quotes a tactless remark about a baroness from Flegende Blatter and a sharp counter about beauty and heart. The source also mocks sensitive truth telling in a Demuvcrat note from the Ovictns Times.
A mountain party with Pastor Bertrand experiences a near fatal episode described as the sleep of snow. He narrates a cold, lifelike ascent and a return as friends revive him, with vivid impressions of fear and a final resuscitation after a balloon-like ascent. The tale is presented through Leon Landsberg's Boston Post retelling.
A Pearsons Weekly feature recounts Haiti as a site of repeated mass killings since colonial contact, alleging over five million violent deaths across centuries. It includes disparate notes on sleep talk revealing truth and a South American lancer snake causing fatal swellings. A humorous exchange about church seating ends the excerpt.
The quip recounts Mrs Gramercy expressing concern as customs seize Paris finery, while Mrs Park boasts her name appearing in the papers, hinting at a social sparkle from publicity. The exchange is framed with wry wit about reputation and material gain.
Feature of students mistakes and risible misreadings from English schooling. The examples cover soldiers, biblical figures, classical historians, and social issues revealing humorous misunderstandings and era attitudes.
The Chicago News reports that in Florence in 1814 Sir Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday demonstrated diamond burning using a sun focus through concave lenses. A platinum rod held the diamond inside a hydrogen-filled globe. after initial glow the stone burned for minutes and was eventually consumed.
A man enthuses about a restaurant calling it the best place he had eaten in months. He says everything is first class and urges others to try it, while a friend cautions that true judgment should wait until not so ravenous.
A congressman aboard a wrecked train recalls a passenger tossed by the shock who dumps ice water on him and jokes he is the coolest man in the car. The exchange includes quips about luck, marriage, cats, and a wedding bride who eats least, from Chicago News, Manchester Union, and Spanish outlets.
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