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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1897
Page
2
A Chicago Inter Ocean report by A. M. Bruner describes a dramatic birth scene. The mother cried out with a lionlike roar, Mary asked to proceed, the door was stamped, and the nurse announced the successful delivery. Travelers nearby expressed joy as the mother kissed her newborn.
Lydia Darrah, a Quaker mother, overheard British officers plotting a surprise attack on George Washington's camp near Philadelphia. She warned Col. Craig, who relayed the danger and dispatched word to Washington. Her courage helped thwart the plan and likely altered the revolution's outcome.
A collage of humor and quips from 19th century papers. Jokes on language, youth, mischief, and pays off like a quick-fire tour through satirical snippets. Notable lines include a lawyer’s quip, a miner’s match request, and a wry editor’s rebuke about intellectuals.
The sturgeon inhabits large rivers of north temperate zones in Europe and America. Sacramento San Joaquin Russian and Columbia rivers favor its production. In early last year San Francisco market imports reached 79761 pounds. The fishshows armor like skeleton and shark like mouth. Flesh is reddish yellow and white called beef and veal by English fishmongers. Several varieties include accipenser stuma beluga and sterlet. 25 years ago San Francisco bay hosted millions of sturgeon feeding in mud at river mouths. Chinese imported lethal hooks to harvest sturgeon for marrow in backbones then discarded rest. Backbones shipped to China for isinglass production. Primarily used to make gelatinous soup.
The United States shows vast investments in electric lighting and railways. Capital for electric lighting, railways, and power totals about 1 trillion dollars with 370 million in trolley cars and 25 thousand cars on 12 thousand miles of track. Electric railways dominate over 90 percent of street and suburban railroads nationwide.
A fragment from the New York Journal shows characters debating holiday laws and Sunday work restrictions with a humorous mishearing and a tumble, reflecting early 20th century comedic style and social mores. The dialogue contrasts eating hay or planting corn on holidays with Christmas prohibitions.
A brief comic fragment describes two Scottish golfers wagering a halved match on a dark links round, each boasts odd mishaps and a curious hole in one misalignment. A separate joke shows a German-Italian telephone prank and Katrina Rupper’s self reference as she resents being asked who she is.
Advertises Great Northern railway excursions August 3 and 17 and September 7 and 21, 1897 from St Paul and Minneapolis at one fare round trip plus 200 points in Northern Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Tickets good 21 days, no tickets under $9.00. For details apply to railway agents or F. J. Whitney, G. FP. & T. A., St Paul, Minn. Also includes miscellaneous short gags and notes from various papers.
A column on washing summer gowns with Ivory soap outlines a simple method and tips for care. Separately a reader notes amazement at chimpanzee education showing a wild ape taught to smoke a pipe, play cards, and drink whisky through patient training.
A humorous aside notes the prodigal's return from a world tour and the elder son's reaction, remarking on a version that alters the usual biblical order as an example of higher criticism, with a nod to Puck.
An advertisement prospectus touts 1¢ land near Little Rock and Memphis for home seekers. It promotes fertile pasturage, rich cereal lands, and farming country in the New South, inviting buyers to call or write Rudolph Fink and W H Morrison of the Little Rock & Memphis Railroad for information.
A Mrs Pinkham special promotes Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash as cures for back pain heat strokes and leucorrhea. It includes testimonial from Mrs George W Sierarp praising relief after five bottles and urges women to seek treatment to restore the nervous and generative system.
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