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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1906
Page
3
An article discusses erysipelas forms cellulitis and a Russian cure by sympathy. It recounts a nurse reader letter praising chalk and red flannel masks, notes two medical approaches, and includes patient anecdotes, domestic remedies, and Home Health Club guidance from Dr. David H. Reeder in Laporte Indiana.
A club notes section includes a reader’s request for full address details, a thank you to Dr. David H. Reeder of La Porte Indiana for lectures on plants and medicinal value, and a reminiscence of a mother’s herb remedies. The writer asks for the formula for compound shrub of gentian.
Max Halpin a special policeman living at 138 Essex street with a shift guarding Ludlow street jewelers watched Leo Giroki a musician at 126 Ludlow street. Giroki was arrested and arraigned before Magistrate Moss for bligging a new crime. The exchange shows Halpin’s brief police career and a mock court scene. Also included are cake snowball recipe instructions.
A basic potato salad combines boiled mashed potatoes with minced onions and a dressing made from the yolks of three hard boiled eggs mashed with vinegar mustard melted butter salt and sugar. The whites are sliced and used as a garnish with lettuce for color.
In Moscow a lion tamer named Peron and a Cossack servant faced a dangerous mishap when the Cossack, hired with little French, attempted to work in a tiger cage. A quick splash of water calmed the asleep tiger, and Peron narrowly avoided a catastrophe as the aide finished the cleansing task then departed unseen. The scene ends with Peron debating a repeat of the risky experiment as the tiger lay subdued. Meanwhile Master Fred’s curiosity gets a humorous payback when his father jokes about cutting his hair to stop the questions.
A simple guide describes mounting a weather vane on a post or shed fence. It explains nailing a figure to stand up, crafting a fixed north pointing arrow, and inserting a perpendicular stout wire atop the post to indicate wind direction.
Instructions describe selecting a thin pine board, drawing a figure outline near a linen area, cutting edges, shaping with a pocket knife, and attaching the vane to wire with leather washers and wire staples. Finish by painting the vane in bright colors for durability and visibility.
Retired U S Army General Daniel W Benham died recently at TiMn Ohio and was buried in Arlington Cemetery in an officer section near the main gate. He designed inscribed and erected his own tomb and wrote and carved the epitaph, leaving the date of death unlisted on others graves nearby.
A playful tongue twister about butter and better butter mixed with a note on hat lifting by knights. It recalls medieval chivalry when knights removed helmets to show safety among friends, linking to modern gentlemanly gesture.
In Jefferson City hospitals crowded and grim a black washer named Hannah evacuated a dying soldier from the ward to her bed and cared for him as a baby. She washed him fed him and kept him alive day and night until he survived though he later left for Indiana on furlough. The piece closes with a note of noble suffering.
A regimental baboon, mascot of an infantry battalion departing England for South Africa, displays unexpected joy while soldiers show mixed feelings. A descendant of Gen Shrapnel seeks a share of 30,000 dollars from Britain for his country, tracing to the 1894 innovation.
A soldier in the Sixty-ninth German infantry was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment at Treves for picking up an apple during a march and failing to drop it when ordered by a sergeant.
The Chicago Inter Ocean recounts Capt. Lucius H. Drury of the Old Badger and Third Wisconsin battery, wounded at Chickamauga September 13, 1863. Capt. John J. McCook shielded him as they rode, keeping Major Drury alive until he returned to duty after four weeks, then served to war's end.
Thomas Vernon of Honey Creek township near Kokomo Indiana is believed to be the only Civil War enlisted man never discharged. He enlisted early, served as a private at Camp Morton, supported seven destitute soldiers, and was later dropped from muster rolls by error. Though sworn in, his name was never mustered out, and after more than four decades he remains in readiness for a front call, now in old age and feeble health, certain he will die in service.
Mrs. J. H. Faris of Smith Center Kansas retrieved a Confederate flag brought by her brother Ira B Whitney of company B 127 Illinois at Arkangan Post in January 1863. The silk flag measures about five by ten feet and bears a white silk fringe a silk cord and tassels of knitting silk. Its field of blue spans across the flag with a large white star the initials A R likely for Austin Rifles and the motto Semper Fideles. The flag shows bullet holes and bloodstains. Both Ira B Whitney and John Whitney served and were killed or mortally wounded in the field.
During Servian infantry drills at Nish a regiment went missing for 24 hours. It was later spotted at the bottom of a ryine, dancing tyluma, supplied by a gypsy camara.
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