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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1902
Page
2
Henry Van Dyke reflects on aging with steady resolve and hope. He urges embracing the future with courage and curiosity, seeking new friendships and adventures while growing older without losing zest. The poem urges cheer through life’s winding path.
An aging Miller obsesses over a young couple walking by his home each afternoon. He recalls memories of solitude, longing, and unspoken feelings as the pair grow central to his world. A neighbor shows concern, then the old man erupts with a rough, half-sardonic greeting when a swimmer male approaches the girl.
A nameless woman recalls a year ago meeting a man beyond her social circle. Indifference to her past life drives her to seek a deeper, warmer love she cannot obtain. The pair meet again, despair and longing linger as they face an emotionally quiet, decisive farewell.
A schooner crew recounts Herm Blanco, a full-blooded Negro, turning white from terror during a four day storm at sea aboard the Schooner Fred A. Smail. As the gale peaked, Blanco’s skin pale as snow, then returned to ebony after three days. The ship, left Valparaiso with wood, birds, and monkeys, was wrecked and towed to port. Captain Z R Thompson confirms the strange change witnessed by the crew.
A compact era-page summary discusses keeping youth at midlife through humor and temper, referencing Max O Rell and M Blouet on youth loss. It then covers Italy moving toward municipalizing public utilities with referendums required for any service and compulsory powers to acquire private works after five years.
Sagasta, Spain's long serving prime minister known as the grand old man, nears eighty. He began as a newspaper reporter and has returned to journalism between political roles, yet Spain needed his services to stabilize the throne amid upheavals.
A Washington page details Senators Spooner Pettus and Millard, the Polish count Tarnowski in social circles, and the Turkish and German embassies. It notes marriages, decorations, staff sizes, hostesses, and upcoming arrivals including Mme Cambon and M de Margerie, with reflections on civic life and diplomacy.
An English resident praised his cook Wan Hoo for a fine dinner, joking about killing a dog for the dish. Wan Hoo denies the joke with a solemn gesture, explaining the animal was already dead when he took it away.
Public playground in Kansas City to be fitted with a shower bath for children. Matrimony described as degenerating into a continuous bread riot becomes too strange for average women.
A Pullman conductor helps deliver a baby aboard a flying Erie train. He improvises clothes from fellow travelers’ garments, names the newborn Nora Camellia Cisco Judson Mahoney, and reunites her with a Chicago-bound mother while a Buffalo husband discovers two Mahoneys aboard.
A Scotch style butler speaks frankly to a guest over dinner, advising the American visitor to decline soup to maintain politeness. A naval officer’s Philadelphia wife receives reports of Montevideo women who boast facial moles as beauty marks, noting their unattractive appearance yet cultural pride in the blemishes.
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