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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1904
Page
2
A fragment shows a man and a woman sing from hymn books. He yearns as she serenades with On Jordan's Stormy Banks while she glances and directs him to borrow her book. Their growing closeness begins with shared music and shy exchanges.
Eleanor Lansing inherits a bracelet rumored to curse its wearer. Phillip La Grange’s influence, blood red stains, and a venetian night lead to a dramatic reveal that the so called omen was only red cement from a faulty repair, as her suitor Ted Maxwell is revealed to be the true love.
The pope keeps an old nickel watch with a shoe-string for a chain given by his mother when he was a boy. A Cardinal offered a costly gift but Pius preferred the sentimental timepiece. A Philadelphia classroom tale follows about a Russian immigrant child who lacks a mother or grandmother.
A survey of free fruit and vegetable celebrations in Colorado towns. Glendwood hosts strawberry day with cream and sugar, Grand Junction offers peaches, Rocky Ford features cantaloupes and watermelons, and Greeley showcases giant baked potatoes. Brighton tomato day ends in a friendly tomato fight. Castle Rock, Longmont, and Cofign county also host apple and pumpkin events. County fairs fund these festivities with races, roping, and roasted oxen, as crowds enjoy free offerings.
Uncle Ben recalls a Brooklyn Eagle tale about a boy walking home with a ghostly swish sound behind him. He discovers the culprit was creased stiff jean pant legs rubbing together as he flees through lonely countryside pastures and trees.
In Aden a Somali bull named Tommy allegedly chewed lit cigarettes and washed meals with peat rum aboard the steamer Falcon. The bull belonged to Captain Craig, the skipper, and was a favorite with the native crew according to a London News correspondent.
In a garbled exchange from the Enquirer Cloclanat, an elder remarks there are council bluffs at the city hall while a boy asks for Council Biostat, capturing a scene of local civic banter and muddled dialogue.
The Aztecs were skilled cultivators and soldiers who relied on maize and maguey for food and drink. Southern Indiana observers note Aztec workers as porters and laborers, with strong physiques and modest crafts, while clothing shifted from breechcloths to cotton trousers and jackets in cities.
A reader imagines a fairy granting three wishes to end schooling and allow endless play. She longs for openyards and woods, a baby girl with yellow curls, and simple baked treats, naming Cornelia Matson in Good Housekeeping.
A heat illusion dubbed the animated serpent impresses with tireless, automatic motion. The serpent spins for hours without visible machinery, fed only by gas or candles. The Chicago Inter Ocean notes the design uses a spiral drawn on Bristol board to create the effect.
A playful experiment shows how a paper serpent spins over a candle flame. Air drawn into the flame creates movement by heating air and causing a twisting whirl, prompting onlookers to wonder at the hidden power behind the trick.
Willie Peeler an 18 year old Fort Dodge Iowa correspondent for the New York Herald built a wireless telegraph set from makeshift parts after attending a liquid air and wireless lecture. He wound 2 1/2 miles of wire on eight reels, varnished layers, and used two improvised copper plates from tin lard cans plus a glass tube cap and a sewing machine needle.
A Moorish prison rescue unfolds when a British warship hears singing of Old Hundred and storms the fortress freeing three captives. Separately, Norwegian boy Conrad Jonassen sent a stork with a note to Norway, leading to a later expedition that freed enslaved sailors and earned a town emblem of a stork on its church.
The lantern fly of Brazil grows up to three inches long with six inches of wing span. By day it displays rich colors and by night it glows with rosa and silver light, the brightest of lumong flies.
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