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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1904
Page
2
A Chicago Record-Herald perceptive verse by E. E. Kiser assures that despite the trolley cars automobiles airplanes and fast trains there remains room for the old horse yet. The poem contemplates progress and speed while affirming continued value of equine power amid changing transportation modes.
In a small mountain town a mysterious stranger quickly quarantines himself, paying a month’s rent, furnishing a cottage, and arranging prepaid meals and supplies from the town store. He arrives with a guard dog and draws attention as neighbors note a bright scarlet notice posted on his door.
A tale of seclusion during a smallpox scare shows Harry Owsley relaxing by a fire in a city home. A nurse from Atlanta returns a basket of eatables to the steps as neighbors shield their houses and a bulldog guards the yard amid an anxious town atmosphere.
Blanche Gordon, a trained Atlanta nurse, treats Harry Owsley during a pleuro-pneumonia siege in a rural home. After days of sleepless care, Owsley recovers and confesses love, asking for marriage as Blanche returns to city hospital duties.
Free lemonade was provided for worshipers at the Hudson City church prayer meeting in Jersey City New Jersey. A large pitcher stood near the front door as young men sampled the drink after the service and found it delicious. Secretary Loeppel proposed passing trays with lemonade on warm Sundays and distributing palm leaf fans at sultry meetings.
Two New York settlement houses work to transform youth gangs into orderly clubs. Workers study gang leadership, convert captains and followers through personal engagement, and merge rival gangs into harmonious groups using gyms and facilities. The process is gradual amid lingering rivalries.
Representative John Sharp Williams recalls a dinner anecdote about a pioneer speaker warning against unchanging ideas. A thunderstorm interrupts the tale prompting a heckler to ask why he did not seek shelter under another tree. The moment ends the speech early.
In a hardware store a man asks for the price of small bathtubs in the window the clerk quotes two seventy five. The customer sighs and jokes that until prices drop they will wash the baby in coal gentile and keep costs down reflecting domestic ingenuity.
A Chicago Inter Ocean article depicts a man asking an older woman about a fiancée’s true nature by observing who serves in the kitchen. The grocer or butcher’s clerk is urged as the best source on a girl’s character and habits, including how she behaves at home. A second aged anecdote recalls a Three Rivers schoolteacher and a child confusing Nero with a hymn reference.
A poem by Zitella Cocke from Woman's Home Companion about the queer sensation of travel in sleep. The speaker imagines journeys to distant lands while remaining in bed, waking each morning without having moved.
A gentle Newfoundland named Prince Turner attends a Pawtucket grammar school with his boy Willie Turner. The dog moves about the room, greets students, and joins recess, even guiding his misbehaving master to the principal. Teachers debate Sunday school attendance for the large pupil.
A curious naturalist note describes green burs on wild rose briar plants. Inside are compact cells housing tiny white larvae, each in its own chamber, fed by wall tissue as the parent fly lays many eggs in the thorny stalks.
A seven foot four inch diameter circular saw, the largest in the world, has been built in Philadelphia. It will cut pine stumps into gleaming bolts, marking a milestone in manufacturing capability.
John Dixon of Shiloh New Jersey builds a house wagon to travel with his journeyman plasterer duties. He spends long days in cold damp sites and finds the movable home saves extra wages, providing fire stove bed and comforts on the road.
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