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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1900
Page
3
In a Sturgis era salon, Dr Murdock bets he can solve any unsolved crime from a daily paper. The tale centers on mysterious pistol shots near Knickerbocker Bank, a stolen satchel, and a borrowed police chase, challenging detective theory with circumstantial evidence vs conscience and luck in a public wager.
A Cambridge observer notes diverse night workers and trades in a big city. He describes bone and bottle men paper and rag collectors coal gleaners and a man who hauls wire while others wander streets after dark seeking odd jobs and night shifts near the riverfront. The piece profiles curious crafts and the eerie spread of nightlife across late hours.
An article debunks the belief that rice is the main daily staple for China's lower classes. It notes pork is cheaper and widely eaten, with hogs kept as household pets and food animals. It mentions Canton immigrants and unusual delicacies like cats and a joke about honey and a live mouse in a pit of honey.
A mix of anecdotes about Col Tom Potter of Philadelphia and New York, a life insurance sales pitch with a pushy agent, and broader notes on endurance and advertising. It cites a Chinese working man contrast, a new reporter’s wedding story phrasing, and cautions about fake endorsements of popular products like Cascarets. It also mentions rising new houses around the city and editorial suggestions on language.
ST MAMYA ACADEMY Notre Dame We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of St. Marys Academy which, ape in another column of this pa per The nth year opens September 4th a We do not need to expatiate upon the scholastic Advantage of St. Marys for the catalogue of the school shows the wope of work included in its curriculum, which is of the same high standard as that of Vaxsar and Bryn Mawr, and ia carried out faith fully in the classrooms. We simply emphas ize the spirit of earnest devotion which makes every teacher at St. Mary's loyalty arrive to develop each young girl attendant there into the triest holbest and most intelligent womanhood. Every advantage of equipment in the close rooms laboratories and widy rooms every care in the matter of food and clothing and exceptional excellence of climatic conditions all of these features are found at St. Marys in the perfection of development only to be obtained by the consecration of devoted lives to educational Christian work in a spot favored by the Lord. The Fine Arte Journal Have your summer vacation plank matured yet Billy Oh yes but they had to be side-tracked on account of some summer notes that also matured Indianap olis Journal So much in industrious and frugal he can acquire a good deal of money without knowing much else Atchison Globe
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