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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1903
Page
2
Miss Featherstone wears a rose and a Valentine stirs a boarding house romance. The shy, educated professor declares love after Mazie’s prank misreads the scene, revealing Featherstone’s hidden feelings and Mazie’s own heartache.
A Denver News account recalls Dever Day, prisoner at Andersonville, who led a prayer brigade of about 606 men for water during 1863. Despite death and taunts, they prayed daily until Providenced Spring appeared as water ran again. Also recounted is Sergt Will Reed’s lone moment at Chickamauga when ordered to sit as battle loomed, a grim quip from Col. Coffer.
A retired officer recalls Gen Ulysses S. Grant never laughed heartily but enjoyed stories not off color. At West Point in 1868 Grant teased a joke about a brigadier becoming a general while a pie tale reveals his humor. A prior imposter ate pie, prompting a parade order to retrieve and share the pumpkin pie.
An essay contrasts two southern anemias found south of Virginia, malarial and hookworm diseases. The malarial form arises from clay soils and responds to quinine, while the sandy-soil hookworm disease affects intestines and resists quinine but responds to thymos. Dr Stiles’s discovery promises major health improvements for the region’s poor whites through prevention and treatment advances.
Mrs Worthwads exclaims at Luella for ungrammatical speech after her return from Vassar. The exchange centers on correcting the sentence The wages of sin is death to The wages of sin are death. The scene features the beau tiful girl with alarmed eyes.
Fragmentary verse honoring a fearless soldier. Lines praise courage and martyrdom, with wreaths and laurel mentions. Names Clifford Cluse and Leslie’s Month appear as attribution. The piece frames death in battle as final, unwavered by triumph or failure.
The 1863 incident reports Jen kins in Hagerstown where six Confederate men dressed as Union soldiers surrendered. Jenkins berates the Federals as cowards, ordering a six man detail and sergeant to parole them at the town’s west border, leaving the crowd angered by his harsh handling.
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