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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1906
Page
2
A tale of a gifted actor raised by fairy gifts who becomes celebrated yet entangled with the smart set. His father’s stern advice to entertain at home clashes with society’s flattering ease as fairies withdraw talents revealing the shallow audience and his decline.
In the Yangtse valley farmers prefer traditional Chinese tools over foreign implements. Hand tools dominate, with matlocks and primitive harrowing shaping the labor. Machinery is rare, even plows, and Shanghai firms show little interest in importing. In Manchuria Russian tools appear, but modern imports remain distant.
A widely circulated tale of the czarowitz, heir to the Russian throne, being deaf and dumb is contradicted by a recent photographic portrait and reports of his early linguistic and physical development. The young czarowitz is said to distinguish nurses by name at 14 months, spout long consonant clusters, recognize generals, handle sabers, and supervise multiple tutors and gymnastic instructors amid looming predictions of revolution and doom from various commentators.
Fish caught on the coasts of France and Italy are transported alive by rail to Germany and Russia for the market. Living fish are placed in covered cisterns on wheels with water continually renewed by a motor pump and pipe system.
Comrade W F Moster of the Sixth Tennessee Cavalry recounts a winter 1863 raid near Bolivar Tennessee led by Col Feeling Horse. Confederate riders fired on an improvised post, seized weapons, and later chased guerrilla bands, with 28 captured and 27 carbines recovered from the enemy.
A wounded boy serving a regiment crosses a blazing plain to deliver calibre 54 ammunition. General Sherman orders hospital care, but the boy urges to stay with the mission. He later requests calibre 51 as he laboriously reaches medical aid. The tale highlights bravery and misquoted dialogue.
Capt Warren Mosely recalls a brutal Civil War moment at Malvern Hill as a shell killed a private and sent blood over his uniform. A listening stranger, R. W. Jemison, reveals the same man was his brother, tying two Macon, Georgia households to a shared, unwritten tragedy from the war.
Rhode Island considers allocating 300 to erect a tablet at Gettysburg marking the place where Alfred G. Gardner placed the fatal shot into the muzzle of Hasard’s Battery. The Rhode Island action honors Gardner and the sacrifice of Battery B First Rhode Island Light Artillery in the Battle of Gettysburg, where officers and men suffered heavy losses and the brigade endured consolidation.
The Isle of Man, once a haven for English debtors and smugglers, earned a notorious name as a sanctuary for the unlucky and profligate. The historian notes the island’s decline from a feared refuge to a place where only the fortunate now flock.
A St Louis woman remarks on a rare husband, praising John with: One doesn't often get a husband like John. The Louisville Courier Journal features the exchange as a light social aside about marital admiration.
A fragmented ad and quotations route through a variety of lines promising progress and self improvement. The text references a pessimist hesitating to act for fear of harm and an optimist who refuses to judge the future by the past while citing a tobacco product promotion and soothing remedies.
A long testimonial extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, claiming it cured Alice Berryhill of Chattanooga and many other women. It stresses Mrs Pinkham's confidential advice to sick women and offers free guidance for those seeking help.
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