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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1902
Page
6
Poem urges kindness to self and others and giving beyond need. Calls for truth, grace, and ruth to guide actions. Praises honoring the deserving with laurels for well done work.
In a fog of danger and daring, a young man rescues a noblewoman, battles Sir Charles Anthony, and wins Eleanor Fairfax's heart. After a midnight misadventure, he proves his honor in a duel and she professes love, amid a dramatic rescue by house servants. Exclusive sentiment in Germany follows a note on foreign workers in German industry.
A British temperance drive aims to suppress barmaids in inns and pubs, starting with Glasgow as the anticipated opening move. The campaign, supported by religious Scots and temperance groups, seeks to curb the service of liquor by barmaids, challenging an institution seen as essential to pub patronage.
In a Revue Scientifique piece by M. Frantz Glen ard the corset is defended against common beliefs. He argues corsets serve esthetic and hygienic aims, can aid in certain maladies, and that female fashion favors curved lines to please, while men's favors rigidity.
The article discusses women facing the ordeal of gray hair and the desire for instant whitening. It cites Paris hairdressers who claim they can turn hair white quickly, though at high cost. A simple, inexpensive method is proposed: washing the hair with a diluted blue bath to remove yellow tones, with repeats if needed, and results appearing in days.
Kaiser Wilhelm's sister Sophia, wife of Constantine of Greece, is described as English-German through Victoria lineage and at home in Greece. She aims to join literary circles as Sophia the Iterary, with court praises and plans uncertain. A brief note adds two more tidbits on hair wash and Siamese clocks of American make.
James Whitcomb Riley laments in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat as crowds dedicate the Indianapolis soldiers monument. He calls the Soldier divine and a guardian of freedom, linking blood, sacrifice, and renewal of national identity.
An anecdote from the Civil War recounts Schwarz's German battery near Wilson's Creek Missouri. A sergeant explains to General Grant how the battery’s guns were taken and then spiked and retaken, with the humor of mispronounced terms and battlefield confusion.
John C. Anderson and KR L. Dobson, both Louisville men, met in Mechanicsville at Policeman Frank Dobson's home to mend a 41 year estrangement rooted in the Civil War. Once bitter rivals, the cousins reconciled over dinner, recalling a sycamore street quarrel near Knoxville and the Sultana survivor Elza.
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