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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1902
Page
5
In near darkness off a hostile shore a captain and crew wait for a sign to aid Gen. Clay and Bixby. A sailor offers to swim to safety but the captain doubts Southern waters allow it. The plan is to cruise, hope for word, and steam for reinforcements before daylight.
A crew member secretly lowers a rope overboard and dives into the sea, escaping the patrol. The search finds no trace of Barton, presumed to have fallen overboard. The vessel accelerates toward Gen. Clay’s position as steam is ordered.
A Manila era anecdote recounts a colored trooper carrying his saddle and gear after his horse was shot. He quips that carrying the "white man's burden" is no easy job, reflecting humor on hardship in the field.
Memorial window debate by George R. Sims and others questions drawing line on using modern celebrities in church stained glass. Sims warns of a future window featuring Judas Iscariot with Joseph Chamberlain features and eyeglass. The piece argues rights and fruits of a tempest-torn tree.
The speakers argue France lacks Latin roots, noting few distinctive traits in Normandy Brittany and other provinces. They compare France to America in mixing diverse elements into a single national identity and contrast Americans’ will with French sensibility and refinement. They cite a Greek Olympiad anecdote where a Frenchman outpaced rivals by heart rather than pace.
George Innes Jr son of a famed landscape painter recalls his Montclair town service. He headed the police commission and led six officers guiding actions. He recounts stopping a drunken woman and declaring he would arrest her, then proving his police status with a haircut remark.
In a cabin Uncle Sambo prays to be delivered from sorrow asking God to send the Angel Gabriel to take him to heaven. Local boys imitate the angels and threaten his ascension at once. Sambo hides under his bed, fearful, and delays his supposed departure.
London reports a Welsh farmer who married three times and fathered 44 children, with 110 grandchildren and great grandchildren noted around his grave. Lord’s miscedin account records a Welsh tagmer near Festiniog dying aged 81, his fertility culminating in 44 offspring across three wives, and a lineage said to include 400 descendants including Canada likely to welcome settlers.
An abbreviated note describes early knighting rites where a man earns the title for noble deeds. The ceremony began with a formal gesture and involved deference to elders, with influences from women contesting roles and youthful participants.
A fragmentary page of early 20th century advertisements and quips includes patent medicine claims such as Laxative Bromo Quinine, a note on perpetual motion as a pipedream, and humor about marriage. It references druggists selling remedies, a Mother Gray worm remedy for children, and a whimsical line about learning from one’s mistakes, with assorted oddities and vendor pitches.
Mrs Esther Milner of De Graff Ohio writes of recovery after pelvic disease and insomnia using Peruna. She says after ten months she regained health and invites others to seek Dr Hartman’s free advice from The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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