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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1902
Page
3
A verse tale recounts Polly Wog Wog, a plain girl with a preposterous tail who thrives on mud and water. Her vanity grows as she repeatedly ignores advice until a sudden moral change alters her fate.
A clever party trick claims water will flow from a knife handle. A hidden sponge behind the ear is revealed as the performer presses the knife. The spellbound crowd is asked to draw three crosses on the elbow, then water drops fall from the blade. The trick relies on the concealed sponge.
A historical note on talking birds, especially parrots, describing how certain species imitate human speech and even form sentences. The piece contrasts parrots with ravens, magpies, and jays, attributing superior vocalization to beak, tongue, and head structure and noting birds’ strong memories.
A Countr Life essay discusses sousliks as a mixed type of prairie dog marmot and gopher. They live in sociable colonies across Europe and northern Asia, eat meat, raid carcasses, and even attack their own species. Eagles watch them from telegraph posts funded by the government.
A Fourth of July picnic featured wooden plates carrying red white and blue map pieces of the original thirteen states and Cuba with numbers for guests to guess. Winners received a large cannon fire cracker filled with bonbons. The spread included scarlet columbine cherry baskets stuffed vegetables and various sandwiches plus lemonade served from a tin pail as an organ grinder performed nearby.
A collage of quips and jokes from early 20th century papers. Bits reference a shoemaker’s death rumor, financial wrecks, ungracious lovers, water and red flannel undershirts, Hygeia powders, a decayed millionaire, oblique science quips, fishery fantasies, and a cabinet officer’s pay, all in a brisk, punchy collage voice.
A translated article from a Shanghai paper discusses the Anglo Japanese treaty effects in East Asia. It argues white racial superiority, mocks other races, notes exclusion laws against Chinese and Japanese workers, and praises Japan’s progress while warning China to reform to avoid domination. An aside features humorous anecdotes from the Syracuse Herald and Stray Stories.
Bozo Gicano a stout Dalmatian aboard the Cunarder Umbria hid in a boiler for three days to escape, fed by stokers. Arriving in New York he reached Ellis Island where an immigration inspector, one of a few who spoke Dalmatian, learned he sought Felix Gicano. Commissioner Williams promised release if Felix could be found, and soon Bozo located his friend among Slavs in the city.
Legislation allocates five thousand dollars to form a naval board of officers. The board must choose a suitable Great Lakes site, assess value if privately owned, estimate purchase price, and report to the secretary of the navy. The report will go to Congress with recommendations, and the board will visit Chicago before month’s end.
Washington readers report a notable petition from Prof Theodore Munger of Rochester Michigan to Representative 8 W Smith seeking five cents from each astronomer worldwide to reveal earth turning mechanisms. He cites a $50 000 prize for solving gyroscope curiosity and promises new scientific principles after fifty years of study. He warns assailing the petition harms science.
Great Northern Railway offers homeseekers excursion tickets to Manitoba Montana Washington and western points at about one fare round trip. Tickets available from agents or F L Whitney G P YT A Bt Paul Minn. Also new summer Shore Tours book for eastern resorts with routes and rates. Copies on request from F Daly Chicago G P A.
A collage of snippets covers global budgets, labor, smoking rooms for women, butterfly species, sea lights, wage gaps in France, migrant photography rules, pigeon slaughter crusade, coal haulage costs, land cultivation limits, early debt history, coffee prices, royal study, auto trials for army, naval notes, and Indian labor shifts.
A compact digest notes diverse facts from weather to law. It cites London weather forecasts since 1879 and Canada plans a barbed wire fence along the Montana boundary funded at ten thousand dollars. It mentions Vesuvius danger, elephant fatalities, and immigration figures.
Three year old Helen Moon of New Providence faced kidney trouble described as the worst form. After doctors misgivings and swelling, the family used six to nine boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills and the child improved rapidly, ultimately recovering fully.
An advertising note markets a Lake Shore Michigem Southers Railway shore excursion from Chicago on July 17 for 18 dollars round trip to Atlanticity Cape May Ocean City and Sea Isle City with stopovers and boat routes via Cleveland and Buffalo. Contact City Ticket ce 190 Clark St or C F Daly Chief A G P A Chicago for full details. Includes assorted quotes and product pitches from period adverts.
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