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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
2
A collage of remarks and jokes spanning politics society and culture. Notes on marriages inventions sports and travel give a snapshot of urban life in a distant era with wry commentary and whimsical observations.
Special correspondent Henri Pene du Bois describes the German royal wedding in vivid detail. The Kronprinzessin and Crown Prince progress through a lavish chapel ceremony with empresses, chancellors, and nobles observing. He notes the bride's beauty, demeanor, and the ceremonious mood as rain falls outside.
The article contrasts Helen Gould’s personal, hands on charity with male philanthropists like Carnegie and Rockefeller who delegate. It notes Gould visits nurseries in New York City, chats with matrons, inquires into needs, and peeks into children’s rooms. It also includes anecdotes about Reid’s advice to Ambassador Reid and a humorous note on John Kendrick Bangs sending and receiving gift inscriptions.
Fragmented OCR tale depicts a court scene where a lawyer in good standing defends a felon amid bribery and deception. It cites a divorce, public justice brushes, a journalist-like narrator, and a mix of names and hints of trial strategy. The piece remains opaque and impressionistic.
TheMontreal Herald notes plants used for nonfood purposes such as the Japanese wax tree with waxy fruit used for candles the candle-nut producing many lighted kernels strung on sticks and the candle tree fruit resembling candles. It mentions the telegraph plant of India a slender shrub whose trifoliate leaves move like signaling leaves in early morning.
Antiq uarians cleared a blocked cave near Winznau on Lake Lucerne revealing a Stone Age grotto. Inside were stone implements such as knives and spears, large shells, drinking vessels, and dishes. Bones of extinct animals were found in one chamber, while a workshop area showed stones in the process of being shaped.
Secretary Hitchcock recently planted an oak sapling at the White House grounds grown from an acorn taken from a George Washington oak at St. Petersburg. The chain goes back to acorns gathered by Russians in Mount Vernon, then grown in Russia and finally returned to the United States.
Forest and Stream notes a San Francisco fish and game show featuring golden trout from Mt Whitney. R W Requa and two assistants climbed Whitney Creek in a blinding snowstorm to harvest about three dozen trout. They kept ice in a tank and a large ice chunk floated in the shipment water for freshness.
Lahbore Tribune describes a Ceylon breed called sacred running oxen. These dwarfs of the ox family never grow taller than 30 inches, making them among the smallest domesticated cattle observed.
Hon John Tighe of Remsen Street Cohoes writes Peruna restored his health after extreme work left him with a weary mind and body. He claims Peruna cures catarrh and nervousness, urges readers to seek Hartman’s free medical guidance, and shares quotes on faith and duty from various authors.
A plea for careful nutrition during adolescence stresses building a sturdy body and warns against unhealthy cells. A young woman recounts coffee’s stomach and nervous system effects, tea’s worse impact, and how Postum Food Coffee improved her headaches pains and mental clarity, credited to Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan. There’s a reason.
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