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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1907
Page
7
Step by step the article explains a magic trick using two hats a false die and a real die hidden inside a black cubeshaped box. The performer racks attention with chatter then alternates revealing the dice and manipulating the hats to misdirect the audience while the real die is moved unseen.
A German boy in a historic village would not shout Fire and alarm if the house next door were burning. Instead he would wait patiently until a decision to act would be made, fearing arrest for hastily sounding an alarm.
A teacher questions Johnny about his brother’s schooling. Johnny explains the brother attends the high school and has been a freshman last year. The dialogue hints at a nickname or term soltovorethie used in the exchange.
The ten year old Pierre Lavell, a favored barracks boy of a Rhine garrison, alerted troops to a jailed soldier’s plot to blow up a magazine holding 30 tons of powder. He was saved from a grave fate by swift arrest and was sentenced to be shot after trial as a grenadier. His pay keeps his widowed mother comfortable.
A needle can float on water when gently lowered on a fork due to a forming meniscus supporting most of its weight. If water penetrates the needle’s eye, the needle sinks. another method uses tissue or cigarette paper to carry the needle onto the water and let it float once the paper sinks.
A parlor friendly smokeless cannon experiment uses a hollow steel pen holder filled with water and a cork stopper submerged in waxed potato to eject a steam driven stopper after a candle heats the water. Also included is a railway joke about the time three o'clock.
On April 1 1883 Fort Leavenworth unit sent to Atchison to root out a band of enslavers. A seventeen year old recruit Henry Hegner infiltrated the plantation, aided by cavalry, freeing about forty enslaved people and capturing guards and two others. The operation culminated in the escort to Atchison.
Washington notes portray Mrs. Taft as a prominent domestic figure and accomplished musician and linguist. She organized the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and studied instrumental music over 15 years. Her children attend Cathedral School and Bryn Mawr preparation, with Robert at Yale and Charles aiming for West Point.
President Roosevelt, seeking fresh photographs, postponed a cabinet meeting after a sunny break at Rock Creek Park. He rode his horse before a photographer for over an hour, capturing several negatives and deeming one pose worth narrating to halt government machinery.
The wedding of Miss Helen Dent Wrenshall, a Washington girl and musician, to Chaffee Grant of San Diego, California, grandson of the late General Ulysses S. Grant, is noted as a major society event. The Wrenshall family is tied to prominent bankers and legal circles in Washington and the East.
Justice Harlan hits a decisive home run to seal a win, earning wild cheers from the crowd as he circles the bases and tips a hastily prepared julep. The scene features a fast start and a display of base running by a Kentuckian amid chaotic postgame excitement.
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