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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1904
Page
2
A poem from the The Hilliston Graphic notes a lack of differential clutch and no pneumatic tire as the speaker laments being a "one-horse-power horse." The verse reflects sorrow over obsolete speed and value as readers are reminded of a once-loved vehicle now seen as abandoned in Ghienzo Daily Tribune.
In a 1904 nautical tale two captains, Dan Stillcombe and Bowne, swap a secret love letter for Marshy Pike, causing a comic shipboard mix up. The letter, misdelivered, prompts a harebrained rescue across New Haven and Providence, ending with Marcia choosing Bowne and Lydia aloft in a humorous twist.
A collection of light quotes shows exchanges on economizing handwriting and marriage. Jokes include a literal twist on we versus I and a pun on reading a letter. The Detroit Free Press and Chicago papers contribute quips about conversations between spouses and readers.
A Western townsman with under an acre of ground turns to strawberries celery and misc vegetables. He rotates crops yearly to rest soil, uses stable manure, and harvests yield about 1300 dollars from three quarters of an acre, with 400 spent on fertilizer and help.
A man named Greens wins a 500 pound prize by inflating a device to demonstrate lung capacity at a fair, pocketing the sovereign while remarking on his seven years as a bugler. The crowd applauds as he taunts about South America lacking coal and iron, noting no major factories.
The article traces the Secret Service Bureau of the Treasury from its origins during the Civil War era to its evolving role. It notes rapid growth in investigators, government reliance on the bureau, and calls for a centralized criminal bureau across departments. It also previews expanding use beyond counterfeiting and back pay cases.
A parish church in Kempsey is noted for two elms flanking a pew once occupied by John Kyrie, a tree lover who planted an avenue now said to send offshoots inside the church. The Kempsey church chestnut grows from Sir Edward Wilde’s tomb, linked to a village chestnut origin story.
In a city hall tale a San Francisco police patrol horse named Tom endures abuse from a janitor, later accepting sugar and a carrot but refusing to take from the stick. The janitor’s final gesture ends in a painful squeeze of the horse’s teeth, while a Pennsylvania headstone anecdote coins a pun on inscription squeezing.
A reader asks why Japan and Russia went to war. The article outlines territorial tensions in Manchuria and Korea, the Yalu river border, and the competing railroad ambitions linking Siberia to Port Arthur, with Japan reacting to Russia on Manchuria and Corea. It notes diplomacy failures as warships depart.
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