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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
7
A collage of jokes and quips from Punch Chicago The Poet London Answers Baltimore News Indianapolis News, featuring lines about a mother praising little sketches, a fool and wise man, editors never burning poems, asbestos sheets for writing poems, a man who sprawls on the street, and a charitable friend in need.
A Crown Point Indiana secretary testifies that Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cured her severe female organ derangement after ineffective medicines and plasters. She reports immense relief after two bottles and continued improvement after more, urging others to seek her guidance and stressing universal access to free advice from Mrs Pinkham.
A brief fable recounts Only-Try climbing a steep rocky hill while Happy-go-Lucky and Faint-of-Heart hesitate at the base. The lone climber reaches the green summit as the others remain below, illustrating perseverance over doubt.
Instructions describe an eyehole sheet game with two teams and candlelight for guessing which eyes belong to whom. The passage then notes winter habitats for birds, mentioning midwinter travel to the gulf states and robins in Florida feeding on china-tree and holly berries, plus birds along the coast and in swamp regions of Louisiana and Mississippi.
The article describes a whipbow, a longbow variant with the bowstring tied to one end, producing a fast, sling enhanced arrow. It explains construction from sapling and pine shingle arrows, the firing technique, and notes its popularity among boys in some regions, with store arrows kept for girls.
The article explains marble production in Thuringia Germany. It describes how poor villagers grind small square stones into round marbles and classify them as common china, painted china, glazed china, and imitation agates. It notes imitation agates use white stone painted to resemble real agate and details glass alleys blown in Lansehn with red glass twists. It mentions large twisted glass alleys feature animals like dogs or sheep for young players.
William McKinley in a Canton courtroom defends a surgeon in a case about a crooked leg. He exposes the plaintiff’s other leg to reveal a worse deformity, prompting the judge to dismiss the suit and joke that the patient should have the other leg broken and set by the same surgeon.
A garbled OCR snippet references marketing lines for Hale's Honey of Horehound and Pike's Toothache Drops, plus a dialog about becoming a husband with legal tender obligations. It mentions Detroit Free Press and Chicago Daily News style promos, hinting at period advertising copy. The fragment includes talk of marked ability, widows, and dating with product branding.
A collage of quoted lines, questions from hotel clerks, and brief notices. Appears as OCR scraps from newspapers including aphorisms, catalog blurbs, and small notices, with names and places like Philadelphia Press and Ram's Horn. No cohesive story, but multiple named persons and places surface in a loose patchwork.
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