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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1906
Page
3
The article explains making essences from essential oils using alcohol and water, including peppermint for relief and ginger for infusions. It covers fluid and solid extracts, infusions, and tinctures, with practical dosage notes and cautions about alcohol and preparation.
The Home Health club reports many letters sharing remedies for frosted feet and chilblains and notes growing desire among followers to aid others. The group emphasizes passing on helpful tips to create a lasting, far reaching good influence and to strengthen community bonds, hoping the effort continues indefinitely.
Fragmentary OCR from a school arts piece notes how children train fingers and eyes to master piano notes. Mentions Martin and Nicholas in a faded line. The piece emphasizes practice leading to steady progress and discipline.
Instructions describe simple metalwork tasks that boys can perform to fashion a brown pat tern article. The piece outlines basic steps and tools needed and emphasizes safe, beginner friendly practice.
A frugal craft guide shows boys and girls how to make decorative metal scrolls from thin iron or brass strips copper wire sticks and black paint. Lay out the pattern on heavy paper, bend the metal with pliers and round-nosed tools, seal joints with copper wire, and finish with two coats of lampblack paint for a 12 by 4 inch candle bracket suitable for a mirror or bureau.
A restless boy Ralph Perkins leaves the farm seeking a livelier life. He pockets ginger cookies and doughnuts, plans to sleep somewhere dry, and imagines a world without chores. At dusk he returns, realizing no place feels better than home as he begs his mother for comfort and a doughnut.
A Daily Whooper squib mocks advertising with a fragmentary exchange about an ineffective ad. A Cleveland Leader quote highlights a bumbling plea from a young man seeking a wealthy housekeeper who will do her own chores.
A father asks about his son’s scratched face and the boy explains he was playing with the neighbor’s child. The exchange hints at a broader dispute or misunderstanding between households as the adult notes the other boy’s alleged behavior.
A round wooden tray with four raised partitions around the edge holds four marbles. The puzzle requires moving one marble into each compartment, demanding careful, precise handling. Good Literature says it can amuse a roomful for an evening and an ingenious boy can make the apparatus at home.
A small boy ends a family prayer asking for blessings for various members and ends with a plea to remember Brother Charlie. The line shows humble faith and familial tone from a house prayer.
An old soldier notes that skilled riflemen win wars, citing Dewey and Togo. The Seventy-first New York National Guard receives a $1500 silver cup honoring historic military leaders, with portraits of Washington, Jackson, Taylor, Grant, Scott, Sherman, Sheridan, and Lincoln. Creedmoor rifle range is featured.
An Irish soldier fabricates a fur lough to visit a sick wife. The captain exposes the ruse with a made up letter, Pat concedes, then admits both are liars in a men to men exchange. Report cites the Philadelphia Record.
In wartime tales a dog ambulance corps earned praise for rescues in Manchuria, where canines wore red cross blankets. A Banff death marks 102 year old Mrs Timpson born in 1804 who recalled Waterloo signals at age 11 and retained sharp memory late in life.
Addison Ballard recalls Christmas in Warren County and a red and white comforter worn in 1862. He describes gifts of a red apple mittens and powder explosions as a boy, plus later camp life in Nashville and Murfreesboro. He recalls a Confederate wearer of a red comforter and a blanket with initials.
The London Engineer notes a batch of 18 Cherbours built submarines for England. Each measures 167.72 feet long, 16.3 feet beam, 10.24 feet draught, 398 tons displacement, with two propellers. Surface power is 700 horsepower steam engines reaching 12 knots, submerged power likely electricity. Each boat carries seven torpedo tubes and a crew of 2 officers and 22 men.
Report describes pigeons dressed by workers at the Murray hotel in Omaha bearing a metal band reading U. S. carrier pigeons. One bird showed a scratched label U. S. Bennington, suggesting origin from Bensington. Details imply misread or damaged engravings on carriers.
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