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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1906
Page
2
Discussion notes a claim that Rev Charles Wolfe copied The Burial of Sir John Moore from a French poet Sally Tollendal and retitled it. It quotes the original and translated stanzas and criticizes Wolfe’s authorship while also wryly surveying waiter napkins and forestry trends.
Reports say artisans and laborers in San Francisco are urged to seek aid while up to 70000 residents face the risk of freezing next winter. The warning underscores severe living conditions and the need for relief.
A devoted couple from youth faces a life changing crisis when Clarence learns his health will fail and end his career. Alice offers to share hardship in the country but he rejects the sacrifice, shocking her yet rekindling their bond as love endures against looming doom.
The piece extols abundant game across British Columbia from the Bridge River to Ashcroft and Quesnel, praising sport with elk caribou big horn sheep and white goats, plus fine fishing and bird shooting. It notes colonial trails and mining towns, and a humorous quip about automobiles staying power.
Washington outlines Secretary Root’s plan for a South American tour to boost US relations, speak with leading statesmen, and present a peaceful pro trade stance. He will visit Rio de Janeiro for the Pan American conference, then Montevideo Buenos Ayres Valparaiso Panama, returning in October. The article notes the Drago doctrine on debt collection and highlights expected conference topics including copyright quarantine customs and arbitration.
Lieut Jean Batlate Brugere son of Gen Brugere chief of staff of the French army is the guest of officers at Fort Leavenworth. President Roosevelt invited him to study at United States military college after Gen Bell and Gen Crozier praised his father’s courtesy during the French visit. Brugere aged 22 holds a commission in the Chasseurs d'Afrique and was trained at St Cyr and Saumur before serving in Algeria. He arrived in New York mid March and met President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft before heading west.
The St Lawrence, private observation locomotive of Central Vermont, once owned by Col. D C Smith, Governor of Vermont, earned the nickname the Vermont political machine for serving in campaigns. Built in Schenectady fourteen years ago, it features an front observation saloon, nickel plated boiler mountings, electric lights, and a 164 pound steam pressure rated for high speed. Now owned by the railroad and used by General Manager Jones and officials for inspections and private car hauls.
Mary Wagner of Bridgeport Connecticut reports kidney illness left her bedridden five weeks with backaches headaches dizzy spells and painful disordered kidney secretions. After using Deans Kidney Pills she improved after the first box and completed a full course of five boxes, with sale by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
In a country scene a group of automobilists watch a shepherd explain the crook. The shepherd demonstrates by catching a series of sheep with the crook hook on their hind legs and argues that a shepherd is incomplete without a crook, like a fisherman without a hook.
The text discusses Australian authorities promoting shelter tents used by Japanese soldiers for bivouac and shelter, detailing a waterproof sheet with hooks forming flexible shelter. It also retells a boyhood tale of Herbert Spencer walking 120 miles home from ham to school with two shillings, aided by a coachman on day three.
A local minister recounts suffering La Grippe like collapse and nervous prostration six years ago. He credits Grape-Nuts with restoring appetite, weight, sleep, and energy, noting a return toward former health and urging others to try the food and its recipe book for health rebuilding.
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