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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1908
Page
2
A garbled Western Kansas World item notes ice prices stationary yet melting, mentions Senator Hansbrough's renomination defeat, and parodies explorers Peary and Lang. It surveys varied curiosities from a stomach photography device to Morrocan sultan deserters, and reflects on naval careers and Parisian flying prizes.
A Cincinnati man age 24 tries to marry an 85 year old widow, stops at a church ceremony as Cupid toys with fate. The groom vanishes, is rumored kidnapped, and the bride endures a dawn chase through Tremont street with a crowd cheering. The husband reappears during a theater reception, proving the tale a comic catastrophe of love and mischief.
The summer’s oddest wedding journey involved Miss Pearl Car aye Cook and Edward Beck a stage manager from a theatre company. Delays forced them to abandon a train departure and take a cab for a trip around Baston Common three times with fellow company members awaiting at the stage entrance.
Miss Montana Largey of Butte Montana, heiress to nearly a million from her father’s estate, loves Ray MacDonald a Canadian Scot and bank clerk. Despite money coming between them, he declares he will marry her and they wed at midnight then honeymoon in California.
A Boston social event ends with Col. John H. Bartlett proposing after tasting a mince pie baked by Mrs. Susie J. Reese. The Grand Army man, impressed by her cooking, asks for introductions, and the couple wed, with Bartlett declaring a pie maker his true affinity.
In Philadelphia 19 year old Mrs. William Sing ley hides her secret six months after an elopement plan with William Singl ey, a Trinity Lutheran meeting at a basket social. He proposes with a marriage license and ring, the couple pledge vows, and tell their families of the union.
A daughter confesses a double life to her mother and father during a parlor confession. After an awful silence the parents react with emotion while the suitor Singley continues to visit as before. That night the family reconciles and the memory of past spankings fades.
Washington tale of 18 year old Marjory J. Savin and 19 year old Edwin Pilson secretly marrying. The couple informed her husband’s father Benjamin F. Pilson who greeted, kissed, and welcomed the pair. The Pilsons plan to support the newlyweds as they decide on a business path while living with the family.
The author describes an Indian burial method using corpse fastened to cross sticks on ground poles or treetops. Air and weather slowly erase the witness of the tomb leaving scattered beads and bones beneath. The scene evokes pitiful grewsome imagery observed in autumn winds shaking leafless trees.
A new English law is credited with attracting foreign capital, tallying about 25 million pounds from abroad as investors, including Germany, contribute funds to Britain’s market.
Mrs Malaprop jokes that her son thrives at a so called alimentary school. She claims he is a Sistesses sculler and top in gastronomy while spelling like a deformed speller. He wants to be an undertaker, and she teases the confessor to focus on the dead languages.
Advert reads that Lewis' Single Binder cigars sell over nine million annually and compare favorably with 10c cigars in quality. It claims rich mellow tobacco and urges dealers to offer Buy Single Binder. Also mentions Defiance Starch advertising fine white goods.
A domestic quarrel over dish counts for tonight’s Higges dinner prompts a husband and wife exchange about kitchen fortunes. The OCR text also references medical remedies and quotes emphasizing self-reliance and dignity from historical figures.
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