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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1902
Page
8
A tale of the Major and a crippled black boy named Mozart Mendelssohn, born of a strange nickname, whose musical gift grows under care. The Major’s generosity and the boy’s skill bloom into a shared dream before a fatal blizzard ends with them going home together.
A quirky debated scene unfolds as Chotee Lamb Mish and Senator Foster of Washington share a hotel roof with Mr Load of California. A misrouted lamb causes a waiter to report the dish as Puget Sound salmon, amusing the diners and highlighting cross state banter during a session.
Long historical reminiscence recounts Peter Sunderland as the last man to leave the Fort Amanda trenches after a fierce assault at Bunker Hill. It details his lone defense, injuries, rescue, and eventual settlement in Ohio near Dayton, with burial at Fort Amanda noted.
Col Thomas G Lacter Rockfort Hi recalls Gen Turchin widow pension of 30 dollars monthly voted by Senate. Mrs Turchin faced poverty in Radom after Civil War service. GAR and others sent aid. McClellan was a civil engineer for Illinois Central. Turchin joined Ninetynine Inole regiment.
A veteran recounts a sequence of meetings with General Grant in 1865 after serving in the telegraph and signal corps. He notes Grant appeared shy and embarrassed when greeted during Northern state tours and reflects on his postwar shift to the newspaper business.
An anecdote recalls a campaign against the Sioux with a three-squadron cavalry column and a quarrelsome lieutenant colonel who is brusquely rebuked by a lenient colonel. The major, junior to the lieutenant colonel, awaits his cue to intervene. A veteran recalls battle nerves, while Gen Crozier advances ordnance work and Springfield and Frankfort armory enlargements to boost munitions output. Hiram Cronk, last surviving pensioner of 1813, spends quiet years near Rome, New York.
The article surveys rare creatures sought by collectors, including the proboscis monkey of Borneo with its long upturned nose and three stomachs, the gueraza with black and white fur, and the parts-eater bear of Thibet. It notes efforts to obtain specimens, peculiar traits, and scarce sightings in distant regions. It also mentions the duckbill creature in Australia with its webbed feet, beak, and pouch-like cheeks for storing food.
A passerby helps a destitute African American man in ragged clothes cross a busy Bowery streetcar ride. The youth alights, assists him to the sidewalk, and the car is halted as others applaud the act. the helper rides on, humble and silent.
Didet knew the Senator. McConnell, a man sent to the Senate years ago by Idubo, served five or six weeks and disappeared. He appeared recently in the senate chamber, but few senators knew him. Edmunds asked a page who the stranger was, and the boy replied Senator McConnell. Edmunds, shocked, left the cloakroom saying a man who cannot speak is not fit to stay.
Ceraski of the Moscow Observatory contributed valuable data to astronomy. Two years ago she first identified a variable Algol type star with regular dimming caused by a dark companion orbiting it. More recently she discovered another Algol. No telescope can yet reveal the planet causing the brightness changes. her reputation in this field is well earned.
A quoted traveler from South Africa praises the Kaflire as the cleanest people in some aspects. She claims they scrub daily and coat themselves in oil, yet their clothes stay dirty. She mentions mine workers wearing only the moochie, a yard of blue cotton wrapped around the hips, while house staff wore white duck.
Daniel Hardy named general superintendent of the Missouri Pacific railway recalls his early days as a water boy on a single track line through Frazeyville. The account paints his rise from humble beginnings to high rank, noting the dignity of public service and the weight of leadership.
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