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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1905
Page
8
A damaged OCR fragment from the New Orleans Times-Democrat features fragmented lines about silence, memory, and distant fame. It mentions EMAL Teams, Spence, Meade, and Beene in a poetic voice with archaic phrasing.
In a smoky private office Branch recalls a long-lost romance as Lew Wix arrives in the city to locate his former sweetheart Janet Shetton. The meeting leads to lunch at Branches house and hints at a buried marriage while Erika, the new truth, unfolds with tension.
A terse diary like line recounts a man naming Jennie and a friend Louis Compton missing lunch, planning downtown errands, and noting a cousin Silas Hart killed by cars. He recalls a railroad man and a past accident shaping his second wife’s fate, ending with a weary farewell.
Workmen by Newton farm in Merion square uncover a five gallon demijohn once used for rye whisky. Mrs Summers, who was asked to use it for sassafras beer, reacts with alarm as a dog and twenty seven snakes emerge from the crumbling basket work. The creatures are killed and the demijohn is declined for reuse.
A humorous 19th century missive from the Los Angeles Times recalls a coal mine superintendent in New Mexico who bans employees moving into company housing without consent. The posted notice, dated February 11, threatens eviction without compensation and features a misspelled, emphatic signature, Hen Fister.
A Boston Herald reminiscence recalls a Portsmouth minister who vacationed in a Maine coast village. He used an unused church and held services. on departure a local delegation presented a bill for church use, which he paid and framed as a memento.
Mexico has seen twenty five years of rising prosperity as order and steady governance reduce faction fighting. Imports rose from 20 million to 75 million and exports from 7 million to 43 million in twenty years, with the United States as the major trade partner. US exports to Mexico last year totaled 45.8 million, versus 5.9 million in 1874.
A garbled OCR excerpt conveys partial lines about temper and behavior, mentioning a female figure near a fire and a distant person. The readable phrases hint at social scenes or domestic tension, but specifics are unclear due to corrupted text.
Shanghai launches a new cotton mill led by a local Chinese company with 2 Minadarin as president to boost industry and employment, signaling a shift toward domestic ownership in the textile sector.
A lengthy critique exposes a hoax spread by European papers on April Fool's Day claiming the U S Treasury was looted by American millionaires. It details German reportage, author L Trisng of the Berliner Tageblatt, and related fake narratives, noting prior prank inventions and a later Alfred Henry Lewis fiction sketch.
The Milwaukee Journal notes that aging is largely mental with youth found in self perception and effort. A person remains young by maintaining thought, reading, activity, and a continued inner renewal, resisting complacency as the outer body ages.
The installment ends with a woman reluctant to pay a $25 debt while a man presses for immediate payment. She insists she has the funds but refuses to pay that afternoon, citing mufleness and desire to delay. He finally overrules, and she counts the money, revealing the dispute over timing and pride.
Colonel John S. Flaherty of the Majestic Theater in New York discusses a manager known for lavish spending on productions yet not always delivering value to his shareholders and audiences. He quips that the man spends plenty of money but often fails to yield satisfactory results.
A Georgia tale told by Rev. Livingston recalls a widower grieving beside his wife's grave. He yearns for rain to soothe crops and to win Miss Seliny Johnson. A visitor notes the humor as the man waits for weather to change, six weeks of courtship stalled by drought.
President Finley of the College of the City of New York recalls riding an elevated train when two men from upstate discuss theater. They mention the actor Mansfield and confess they have never seen him in Repertoire, prompting curiosity about the play's nature.
In Newport a member of the Babes in Toyland company, Gus Pixley, paid a quarter for a Havana cigar but was told none were in season. The tobacconist said only summer cigars are kept, offering five-centers as the alternative and giving Pixley twenty cents change.
Mary Dickerson a 79 year old Cleveland domestic has slept standing against a wall for twenty years to escape morphine dreams. She says addiction began over fifty years ago, and after a religious revival she quit the drug. She now continues the regimen to avoid distressing dreams and would not sleep in a bed.
William Allen White recalls a century old Harper's Weekly quip about a Dodge City paper that cannot pay its road tax. The notice jokes that no issue will be published for three weeks while the state boards it, adding the editors will come out ahead by twenty dollars.
Swedish aeronaut M Frankel's balloon damaged during ascent forced a descent in a country house park on an island. A large employer celebrated a silver wedding jubilee when he landed. The unexpected guest sparked love at first sight with the eldest daughter, and the sergeant left her pale and soon engaged.
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