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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1906
Page
6
In a sunlit spring scene Polly quarrels with The Gentleman over a dress and a last night together. He departs with plans to marry but returns for the dress frill, and Polly realizes her true wish seals their reunion as the frill both symbols and catalyst. The other girl watches, declaring sanity and honesty in the end.
Fragmented OCR text cites jokes and quips from Houston Post and Chicago Daily News in a string of disjoint lines. It includes cigarette habits and grammar banter, plus a mangled poem fragment about appetite and bread, with missing context and incomplete phrases.
A collage of humorous dialogue snippets from the London Tatler Yonkers Statesman and Houston Post. Anecdotes include playful boasts of romance misadventures and a quip about a typewriter and a stenographer. The tone is breezy and satirical with quick exchanges and contemporary quips.
A Houston Post quote attacks female decisiveness in shopping versus male bargaining for real estate. The Weekly presents a fateful title for a theatrical manager applicant, asking if they would be a suitable walking gentleman as an actor speaks uncertainly.
A collage of short jokes and curious quotes from readers and editors, including playful lines about mad hats, the unfairness of life, fortunes told from hands, and amusing exchanges in restaurants and grocers. Nods to witty one liners and humorous exchanges across cities.
A Confederate narrator catalogs feats of southern women in the Civil War, noting their fundraising, uniform making, and efforts to aid armies. It highlights Miss F of Fairfax Court House, who earned a lieutenant’s commission for gathering intelligence and navigating danger, and Belle Boyd and Mrs. Greenhow as famed spies. It recounts a foray by a Forrest squadron aided by a fearless farmhouse guide who showed a ford under heavy fire, aiding a critical flank maneuver.
Lawrence Ring of St. Louis recalls exhumations at Fort Hays during the 1866 cholera epidemic. He describes being hospitalized, carried to the deadhouse, and crawling back to his cot after witnessing suffering. Ring notes strict interment laws and his Civil War service.
A German invention named vigorit allegedly resists fire and is safe from friction and concussion. It must be fired by electric current and withstands water and air, making transport safe. The report notes its use against navies and armies and contrasts it with traditional explosives.
Magnetic compasses are to be supplied in the future to all British and native cavalry regiments in India at the rate of four per squadron.
The fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the aniline dye will be marked by placing a portrait of Dr. Perkin in the National Portrait Gallery and a bust at Burlington House. Dr. John Aitken notes gas as the basis of smell while Berthelot claims musk can be detected at extreme low quantities. Two European science groups study the sun, the Solar Commission (since 1902) on weather and climate, and the Solar Union (since 1904) on sun secrets.
Physicians across the country report cures in female ailments with Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Fitchburg doctor endorses its efficacy in treating female troubles and recommends its use, while Mrs. Pinkham offers free advice to sick women from Lynn Massachusetts, highlighting decades of experience.
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