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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1902
Page
2
A collage of anecdotes features a Fayette Street church sermon on looking pleasant and child responses about photos, a temperance tale on a Jersey City train, Monte Carlo play banter, a Lewiston schoolboy mishearing letters, a Cuban campaign anecdote, golf misfires, and remarks by Rosendale and Peckham.
A survey of scattered figures covers employment in mines, census years, land vacancies, Ireland deaths, Tinsees natives, Fieldings and Tom Jones, baseball sayings, Australian sheep, New York Methodism gains, American investments in Cuba and Havana, Filipino vaccinations, San Francisco saloons, London drinkers, Berlin marriages, English mail to South Africa, Michigan sugar from corn, Central station calls, Victoria Crosses, Shakespeare, eels with two hearts, quarantine origins, solar flares, drinking fountains in London, and numerous other global stats and anecdotes.
A report notes 62 percent of adult Syrians at New York port could neither read nor write last year. Southern Italians show 53 percent illiteracy, Greeks 21 percent, and Polish immigrants 31 percent.
Fashionable women at Larchmont near New York embrace riding astride and outdoor sports. Many ride horses sail yachts and drive fast automobiles before enjoying ping pong or bridge whist in their resort community.
A Hol land man in the Peculiar People faith broke his arm and refused medical aid. He wrapped a Bible leaf around the left toe for relief and claims instant improvement, yet he continues to walk about with the broken arm.
East coast society leader Mrs Clarence H Mackay favors violet stationery and eschews red stamps due to perceived tint issues, reflecting a fashionable trend among high society circles. The anecdote highlights social rituals and preferences shaping appearances in prominent households.
A girl returning from a wedding recalls the ceremony with a humorous quip about the man with the book and apron. The piece notes 4,800 millionaires in the United States, led by New York, with Massachusetts, Illinois, and North Dakota also listed by counts and rankings.
Michael J. Hennessy of Worcester Massachusetts donated twenty one pieces of his own skin to be grafted onto Francis Earl a one year old boy badly burned. Earl is receiving treatment at West Pennsylvania hospital in Pittsboro following a railway accident that injured Hennessy and sparked his interest in the case.
The piece explains that shade alone does not cool, the tree itself stays about 45 degrees Fahrenheit, about 7.2 degrees Celsius, and this cools the surrounding air. A stand of trees acts like a pitcher of water cooling, lowering the local temperature through constant tree temperature and evapotranspiration effects.
Austrian tailors announce a quarterly black list listing unsatisfactory clients with full names addresses and exact debt amounts. The move targets overdue accounts and aims to pressure defaulters into payment while informing other trades.
Leonard G. Neighbour was buried in Carlton New Jersey as ten near relatives, all widows, mourn his grave. The deceased was the youngest of ten siblings, five boys and five girls, with all the brothers dead while the sisters and his own widow survive.
The Guayaquil fire drew worldwide focus on Ecuador's port city as a $600,000 blaze showcased its size and grandeur. The city is reported near obliteration, making recovery and reconstruction urgent and challenging.
George W. Cable tells a Sunday school class that of his three children at home, half are girls, and the other half are girls too. In Mysore, two hundred native beaters arrive from eastern Bengal for an elephant hunt amid the investiture of the young maharajah at Aurmer.
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