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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1903
Page
8
A reflective verse fragment quoting F. W. Faber on resisting sinful thoughts and embracing divine will. The speaker questions if sin can be endured with light steps and cheerful breath, seeking strength to bear the cross and love of Christ amid inner struggle.
My great great grand aunt Tabitha shook a homespun tablecloth to frighten a captive. She hid a prisoner under the cloth, then called on Capt. Tobe Leat and his men to protect settler families from hostile Indians. Tabitha freed the captive after warning the white brothers and sparing Wandoa, who kept his word. This tale, passed down as Tabitha’s tablecloth, links ancestors and frontier defense.
Derbyshire medical officers advocate a new school hygiene rule. Teachers will cleanse slates using disinfectant to prevent the spread of disease from slate pencil habits. The plan aims to reduce epidemics and promote healthier school practices across the county.
Old English Custer describes Worston in Lancashire as a mock borough where residents vote for a mock mayor. The winner takes the title of privy councillor and knighthood, with Sir William Bulcock serving years as laborer mayor. Coronations and civic honors included a kingly address to Edward and royal acknowledgments from London and Edinburgh.
A poetic tribute praises a woman as kind noble steadfast and pure. It extols wisdom strength and enduring virtue, declaring that a woman's goodness merits reverence and a lifelong throne. The piece frames womanhood as noble across all surroundings and ages.
Washington Star quotes the trouble with the average American letter and a remark on trying new songs. It notes skepticism about adopting fresh tunes with a jab at Panama, Nicragus, or none at all as potential paths.
Public release outlines a grand union station for the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railroads at Washington. It places the depot at the center of radiating avenues, with a 620 foot long white marble structure, grand arches, a Romanesque plaza, and lavish waiting halls, baths, and mortuary arrangements. The project totals about 14 million dollars with federal and district support for street works and grade-crossing abolition.
The Sun reports a party led by Mr. Phillips Verner heads to equatorial Africa to procure pygmies for America. Verner, a former missionary near the Congo, knows many pygmies and hopes for success. The dwarfed negroes are widely scattered from the Atlantic coast toward near the Congo, with an accompanying map marking their known habitats.
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