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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1901
Page
2
In a rural funeral amid a tense journey, Isy and companions confront loss and moral duty. A mother pleads for comfort as a stranger sacrifices pride to pray. Parker and Ransom confront guilt while Johnson delivers a moving prayer and vows reconciliation with his father and Miss Marvelle.
A theatre company on the New England circuit faces a faltering season as Johnson, the new member, fails cues and arouses ridicule. Leading lady Miss Marvelle and star Parker mock his lack of insight while he pines over Helen Marvelle, adding strain as the troupe presses on toward a spring closing.
A New York carriage builder markets a new crest service. An employee paints crests on landaus and victorias, even inventing unique crests for clients who lack copies. The method reassures owners, avoids public critique, and promotes consistent family branding.
The article discusses the concept of a bad man as a frontier figure. It contrasts danger with virtue, noting the evolution of a good man into a frontier bad man shaped by border conditions and firearms. It explores how communities rely on strong personal valor to maintain law when official justice is limited.
An Austin father to curb truancy claims a curative method for two sons aged 12 and 10. The boys, pupils at a Washington boulevard parochial school, were absent two weeks, misusing mornings for prairie exploration. The father bought a conductor's punch and issued cards resembling warrants to the boys through the school.
The passage honors peace officers who enforced law on the border led by Wild Bill Hickok and colleagues like Tom Smith Patrick Shugrue Michael Shugrue William Tilghmann and Hector Thonis among others who brought order from chaos. It also notes slang used by jurists including Sir John Madden in Victoria New South Wales where school day cards were used to prove attendance.
Uncle Sum reports on Alaska farming efforts by the early cultural department. Experiment stations above Sitka and in the Yukon valley test vegtables grains and fruits while opportunities for cattle and sheep ranching are identified. Daw son lies within a hundred miles of St. Petersburg, marking a northern frontier for agriculture.
The text pieces include a court scene where a justice apologizes for calling a matter fake and barristers protest the term, followed by a dated snippet about a graduate in New England and remarks on Norway, Finland, and Alaska. It also touches on marriage age and medical views, ending with garbled phrases about eating stone and idle talk.
The article notes Philadelphia Fairmount Park as the nation’s largest city park at 2791 acres and mentions a solid silver chair presented to the pope valued at $90,000. It cites Chicago’s six stations receiving 40,000 daily visitors, a Brooklyn walk time, and advances in travel by coach. It introduces radium glow from Mme Currie in Paris, a new metal alloy partinium for vehicles, and describes wolframium aluminum reinforcement.
The Chicago Daily News sketches summer fashion trends with pale fawn cassner gowns and blue ribbons, fresco styled muslin gowns, hemstitched frills, and new driving veils of crisp silk muslin. It notes a Parisian mix of inexpensive garnishes with luxury, plus striking white wraps with blue yellow black trims. A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote recounts a factory boss hiring a nonconformist youth, then a recipe for Strawberry Pyramid dessert and a few light jokes from Stray Stories and Puck.
A satirical piece features a Crayola of insults toward a man who extolls stories about his children. The text mocks pompous self importance and its effects on public discourse, ending with a comic, bantering tone about social norms.
An advertisement in this paper extols Notre Dame University as one of the nation’s great educational institutions. It notes courses of study, preparations for higher learning, and a thorough program in commerce and industry for boys and students, praising fifty six years of active work and the institution’s national fame.
An early report describes Queen Victoria’s famed hair and a court physician’s secret treatment. It names Newbro’s Herpicide as the germ destroying remedy for dandruff, claimed to promote hair growth and halt shedding.
Early 20th century style ad copy promotes Allen's FootFang powder for feet with claims of relief from corns itching swelling and soreness. Mentions drugstores and Shea stores selling sample seat free and a marketing quip about nerve and crankiness. Includes a laundry tip for delicate dresses and a brief poem line from Reeder.
A compact note tracing how terms such as meat, vown, miscreant, libel, polite, vagabond, and blackguard evolved from broad to specific senses. The etymologies show meat as food, vown as farmhouse, miscreant as renegade, libel as pamphlet, polite as smooth, vagabond as wanderer, and blackguard as kitchen staff.
Lostant I July 8 James Watt, long plagued by kidney trouble and nervousness, finds relief after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He purchases six boxes, then shares the cure with his Belfast brother, sending pills and a personal recommendation across the sea.
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