11 Jun 1904
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1904
Page
1
The passage contrasts preferences for girls by appearance virtue or behavior. It weighs beauty, grace, kindness, sobriety, and faith, concluding some value inner character over external charm. The speaker credits Alma McEvoy with steadfast Christian virtue.
Mrs Spelthorne and her husband lead a refined but tense union behind cloistered doors. He disguises as a chorus girl to attend a ball while she plans a night out, then a chandelier collapse tests loyalties and a dramatic confrontation follows amid a web of infidelity and social games.
The article portrays Representative Payne persuading Maddox to withdraw a point of no quorum during a Georgia representative’s clash on the floor. Payne asks Maddox privately about a hidden motive as a crowd scene unfolds with laughing and wheedling tones and commentary on debates and a digression into etymology of humbug.
A fragment from a historic death mask tied to Carlyle, Norton, and Harvard Library traces its journey from Thomas Woolner to Professor Norton, with Harvard acquiring the fourth cast. The piece sits among casts at Oxford Cambridge and the British Museum as part of a noted bequest.
A Burmese dwelling uses four upright teak or bamboo posts to elevate the structure seven to eight feet. Floor planks are tied with rattan, walls are woven split bamboo, and ted dy palm leaves soaked in salt water render the house insect-proof. Light enters via large daytime flaps. rooms branch from a common area with bamboo partitions. Roofs are thatched and highly inflammable, with hooks for roof removal if fire breaks out.
While lifting boxes Pilgrim of Leighton Buzzard inhaled a mouse that caused a severe choking sensation. He drove to a doctor where he suffered discomfort but is now well again.
A fragmentary note describes a Burmese printed Lord's Prayer and a California park display showing 130 varieties of cactus. The piece emphasizes the contrast between printed text and spoken rendition and highlights a local botanical snapshot.
Moscow reports Vazoff, a Doukhobor dissident who aimed to found a Russian Mormon sect, returned from Canada to Russia and was arrested in Odess a after preaching polygamy to peasants. He led a riot in Uovo, fled, and was captured while addressing moujiks. In Cebu, Philippines, women fetch seawater from wells near the coast, tasting salty-free water.
A French naval officer proposes a smoke free fuel derived from petroleum briquettes. The process binds petroleum oil with ground soap resin caustic soda and dye, forming moulded briquettes that solidify after heating and cooling. Adding sawdust increases solidity.
The London Gentlewoman muses on a fashionable full dress for evening in 1309 and imagines whether girls then dreamed of cold, solitary nights. It contrasts modern beauty specialists with the era, pondering the social concerns of young women in that period.
A Philadelphia area society maiden cherishes a unique ring from her grandmother. Crafted by a famed Paris jeweler, the piece coils around the finger in a fourfold design ending in a serpent head set with an emerald. Hidden joints allow a long spiral of the awake, a marvel that has remained flawless for over fifty years.
A Sumatra instrument called Musical Wood uses hardwood sticks hung between two supports. Sticks of varying sizes are concave up and down to produce shrill tones when struck by a wooden rod.
Capt and Mrs C G Thompson of Arkansas City, first wed over fifty years ago, divorced after desertion, each remarrying and losing spouses. By chance they reunited, reestablished their bond, and recently remarried in a quiet reconciliation.
A brief note observes that of the long list of merchants who operated in Brunswick, Maine fifty years ago only A. V. Metcalf and Ira P. Booker remain. Booker, once in partnership with Metcalf, is now treasurer of Bowdoin College.
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