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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1903
Page
6
Turner deceives Louise by starting an affair with Eleanor while engaged to Louise. He struggles with truth, attempts to tell Louise, but is paralyzed by guilt. Eleanor ends their relationship with a decisive note, leaving Turner to confront betrayal and repent.
New York born artist Violet Oakley plans a major mural for the Harrisburg Pennsylvania capitol. She will create a five foot deep frieze titled The Romance of the Forming of the State, with panels starting eleven feet from the floor. Oakley, part of a Villanova trio with Jessie Wilcox Smith and Elizabeth Shippen Green, studied in Europe and has murals including the Church of All Angels in New York.
A New York Times excerpt discusses women questioning politics as District Attorney Jerome explains the current situation to female visitors. One woman asks, is Tammany a man or a tiger, highlighting humor and gendered views of politics in the era.
A description compares spending on hunting in Hing land to a gold coin fourteen feet high and one foot thick. The coin’s weight is equated to a box containing 8 300 foxes, illustrating the vast expense in stark, unusual terms.
In Hiawatha Kansas a man received a misaddressed letter bearing part of a mournful song. Postal staff traced the melody to a bar or music line and learned it was tied to a fatal modern tale, then forwarded the letter to New York Tribune.
Mrs John H Thomas of Wilkes Barre Pa was severely burned when a box of shoe polish exploded near a cook stove. The blast set the house on fire and she was polishing shoes at the time.
Cyrus W. Oliver of East Saugus Mass caught from the raft belonging to the boat club the season's biggest smelt. It dressed weighed 16 pounds and measured 11 inches, marking a record catch for the locality.
Mrs Edith Heath of Center Sandwich is credited with a notable hunting tally including three raccoons one skunk one hedgebos three partriders one deer and a crow. Peter J of Gerva ire is named as the most intellectual monarch cited in local lore.
The article notes child prodigies like T H Safford who mentally computed long figures such as 617 760 barley grains in 1 040 rods and extracted cube roots of large numbers. It cites Buxton, Zerah Colburn, and Arthur Grimm achieving feats like doubling a farthing 139 times, computing powers, and memorizing squares and cubes, illustrating early maturation of extraordinary arithmetic skill.
An observer notes a blue and yellow macaw that blushes red when angered and warns friends that white cheeks mean feigned attacks. The owner of a blue and orange macaw reports a parchment face that turns bright pink above the beak when the bird is angry or excited.
A small church stands amid Coney Island’s coasters and rides, with a nearby lighthouse tower rising 65 feet. An electric lantern at the summit beams “Jesus Saves” on all four sides, marking the beacon as a gospel lighthouse beside the shore.
A recent demonstration shows the equator is not a perfect circle. If a line were dropped from Ireland to New Zealand following the curve, it would be longer than a line cut across the Earth at right angles. The exact difference has not been precisely measured.
Horace A. Moody of Cornwall has a Swiss watch once owned by his grandfather Joshua Stockwell, a Cornwall pioneer who died in 1840. The timepiece traveled with Stockwell in the Harrison campaigns of 1840 and 1888, linking it to two era campaigns and a notable local lineage.
The fishing steamer Leander Wilcox arrived at Mystic Connecticut with 640000 menhaden caught in two seine sets. This huge haul marks the largest single catch at Mystic this season and brings the steamer’s total to 16200000 fish.
A peculiar scene in Rockland Massachusetts shows a polecat running with its head in an old tin can. Bystanders chased it yet none pursued capture as the creature slipped away into a nearby stone wall.
A fragment notes a tiny typewriter said to be the smallest ever made in America. Described as four inches by three inches and weighing about a half ounce, the item is connected to a 14 year old claim and historical curiosity.
The old tale from East Spain centers on a room known as No 28 and a fearsome stigma attached to the number 23. A locked door and a heavy key bearing the numerals remain as relics of the cruel lore.
A Swiss expedition in Canton Schwyze descends into new underground caves. They used 5,000 yards of rope ladders and acetylene lamps, spending two days underground and traveling 2,500 yards through vast caverns sparkling with stalactite. They report swift subterranean torrents capable of powering industrial undertakings.
The article notes the Canary Islands women have Moorish blood, described as dark beauty framed by a white shawl, a head covering likely from the Moslem veil, while contrasting eye whites. It also mentions Lt Inn Co G Third regiment M V M Col Richmond holding an old commission in the M V M in that state area. An immense cross on St Alban Church in Holborn England, over twenty five feet tall, is said to be the largest in England, donated by the Duke of Newcastle. Wrote After Many Years.
Morning reports describe wildcats bothering farmers as Connecticut claims sole honor for unusual battlefield observation. A resident return from Gettysburg notes two Gug aircraft flying over the scene, marking an odd convergence of farm life and war memory.
The fragment hints at a bulletin or article discussing ailments like rheumatism and catarrh, possibly in a health column or advertisement. It lacks clear events, names, or dates to establish a full news item.
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