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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1902
Page
2
A sprawling column of satirical notes and world glimpses covers royal previews and defeats, American imperial reach, misprinted names, and light gossip. It jokes about kings, financiers, scholars, and plays while noting political and social quirks across nations and cities.
Calve has unveiled a new jewelry fad in New York: a turquoise hand harness comprising a bracelet linked by gold chains to turquoise rings on each finger and a thumb ring, designed to draw eye in the stage production Messaline. Mme Calve owns several sets and wears them in performance, while a health note warns short nails may signal rising paralysis.
Ten minutes span the life turning a Richmond woman into maid wife and widow as Lieutenant Richard M Stanton died in the Philippines. Miss Mildred Deuel, 17, married by civil ceremony moments before his death. She later learned of his passing as he lay recovering in California, with a brief reunion in San Francisco cut short by illness.
Ainslee's Magazine notes a visual illusion where the right thumb vanishes from perception when viewed against the left eye’s blind spot. The piece explains the blind spot, its discovery in Charles II's era, and why the gap in vision remains unnoticed by most observers.
A drill hole at the Turf club grounds near Johannesburg struck the main reef at 4,800 feet, within twenty-five feet of the expected depth. Rods were left in place for twenty months during wartime, then withdrawn starting May 26. By 10 am the following Monday all rods were removed, after completing the 1,850 feet pulled that day.
An elderly Philadelphia area servant, shown the sea for the first time at a seaside resort, admits no strong objection to the ocean while her mistress watches with the children. The scene contrasts impressions made in different settings.
The Holton Tribune reports a mosaic of Kansas news items. Local reputations and oddities surface, including a Miami county man quitting vice to keep his college-bound son, a Lee White debt case, rattlers stored for a rainy day in Parker, and a Marshall county widow renewing a life policy after her husband’s drowning. Wichita’s rum worm pest threatens bottles and casks, while Beloit, Pomona, and McPherson chatter on inventions, chautauquas, and appliances.
Gen James H. Wilson argues for reciprocal trade unions with tropical nations led by Cuba and Porto Rico. He praises Cuba as a vast, fertile, and healthful field, notes unutilized acres and rich resources, and envisions American enterprise expanding via a continental highway and a new isthmian canal to link markets from the Orient to the Americas.
The article notes that early amusements like dusting caused many fatalities, prompting laws against it. In Frases, dusting remains a popular sport, despite the danger and past prohibitions. It discusses public reaction and the endurance of the activity in modern times.
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