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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1905
Page
8
A fragmented verse by Sames T. Fields laments a lost life with images of dawn, a reddening cat, and a regal bead. The speaker pleads for peace and rest, asking for simple acts of remembrance and sorrow. The text preserves a somber, reflective tone.
A young boy boasts of a repaired revolver and dreams of becoming a cowboy or desperado as he tries to impress Bessie under an arbor. Roma and Wilkins intrude, the couple’s awkward courtship unfolds with stilted speech and coy misfires, while two younger narrators weigh the drama with sharp, comical commentary.
A local scene unfolds as a boy mimics a stage villain to woo a girl. He boasts a lawyer’s authority and a plan to marry, while a noble maiden waits, reading crochet as a steadfast suitor arrives to declare his long pursuit and seek a private moment.
In a humorous exchange a young man stumbles through proposing to a girl. She gently mocks his awkwardness and a familiar suitor’s bold act contrasts with the boy’s hesitations. A playful, old fashioned moment ends with a smart jab at the suitor’s ineptitude.
A London dinner tale has Wagner joked about as very funny by Lord Pitkin who mistook a black faced performer for the composer. The miscue sparked a late jubilee entertainment where Pitkin’s laugh echoed until the source of the joke was finally revealed. Also a telegraph operator’s lunch flirtation ends with a joke to marry, and a New Hampshire juror refuses to retire, insisting the verdict is already made.
A fragmented note contemplates age and birthday feelings. It muses about being fourteen again, longing for youth while recognizing the passing years and the mixed emotions of aging. The tone hints at nostalgia mixed with humor about growing older.
A New York style piece discusses trends in portieres from red husg fabrics to modern decorative movements. It contrasts movable rods with fixed hung portieres and describes methods using hold-backs, grills, and pleated panels for door drapery.
Reports from Waitea Kauai describe barking sand that roars when stirred by wind. A white resident lost a watchdog to theft, but deployed carfield to protect henhouses. wind caused sand to bark like many watchdogs. The experiment suggests white residents now keep barking sand as a watchdog, sparking fears of extinction for real dogs.
A Philadelphia lawyer recalls how a French tutor impressed the value of regularity and punctuality. He quoted the tutor’s saying that punctuality mirrors the sun, rising exactly at daybreak, never before or after, to stress lifelong discipline.
Dr. John War Encei a halfbred Chickasaw Indian is among the tribe's wealthiest members through real estate deals. He studied in Bootland where his Hudson Bay trader father was born. His wife a Caddo woman runs a network of western stores selling Indian relics and beadwork.
A Kansas City Times story notes geese drawn to bright fire beacons on stormy nights in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas. Hunters reported hundreds of geese killed when radiant lights misled them at night, with dawn revealing the deception.
A Brooklyn woman recounts a visit to Canada and a pet niece who brought a box of peppermint candies. The aunt declines chocolate covered peppermints, then the child returns with plain white candies after licking the chocolate off the treats.
An artist served with a quit notice defaced the walls with jet black paint and white death heads skeletons and crossbones. The landlord requested court intervention but the judge ruled no interference as long as the flat was not damaged.
A slender 17 year old Louisianan nicknamed Babe joins United States Military Academy class of 1880. The fledgling cadet proves plucky, fights and defeats a heavier foe, then graduates in 1884 to a distinguished Army career with the Tenth Cavalry. He serves in Arizona against Apaches, performs a heroic rescue for a black sergeant, later serves as an Army attaché in Berlin, and meets a fatal diving accident after a river swim.
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