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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1900
Page
2
A collage of comic and rustic scenes from Black Hills life and theatre. Quips about Black Hills men at the Gem and Deadwood shows, with a rapid-fire exchange about a Frenchman and a Native American in a play. Lingering anecdotes from Rapid City and Custer, plus a wry London quip about reincarnation.
In a tense Confederate court scene, Margaret Beach faces a death sentence for espionage. Maj. Bernal Berante testifies to reveal the real spy, exposing Gen. Heath as a traitor while saving Margaret through a crucial flag of truce. Harold Teach and Georgia emerge as pivotal figures in the unraveling plot, with longstreet moves described and a pivotal document presented.
In a Tennessee riverfront living room Gen Heath hears evidence on Gen Longstreet's fate. Margaret Beach and Georgia Beach present as Heath and the officer discuss exhausting attempts to verify a report of Longstreet’s corps detachments from Bragg's army to crush Burnside.
A rural court tale shows a couple seeking a total divorce from a rival justice of the peace. The husband offers six dollars in his stocking as a bribe to expedite, but the judge fines him five dollars for bribery and one dollar for wasting time, noting the case is beyond the judge’s jurisdiction.
A compact reel of sharp one liners from a bygone era. The Ghastiest Gems collection showcases quips about weather parties and clever jests attributed to famous papers like the N T World and Chicago Times Herald. The snippets capture editorials tone and public wit with brief, punchy lines.
A collage of quips and cartoons from Philadelphia and New Orleans papers includes a broker jawing about money and ming says, a dumbfounded skeleton, a boastful fat joke, and a barber’s barbered joke about teeth. A teacher’s mortage gag and a trolley smell anecdote round out the collection.
Frederick A. Cook describes a cloudlike mass of islands near the South Shetland group seen from a ship, noting Livingston and Smith islands, ice free coastlines, glaciers, and lack of vegetation, and suggesting a lighthouse and rescue station as a humane government mission.
The cotton belt spans 24 degrees of longitude and ten of latitude, excluding large areas with limited cultivation. It covers about 600,000 square miles, roughly one third of the settled U S, with 20,000,000 acres planted yet only a fraction farmed. The region’s center of cotton production moved from Montgomery, Alabama to western Mississippi and beyond from 1550 to 1890, driven by westward expansion into Arkansas, Texas, and Indian Territory. A satirical aside mimics a tax joke about charitable institutions.
A Louisville girl who had recently been in Germany met a young English officer in Ul tame, staying together for two months as he sought promotion. The pair enjoyed a joke about Americans smoking and a pipe gag revealed his stereotype as he learned the girl preferred pipes to cigarettes.
A conversation reveals a man’s hidden genealogical ties from Mayflower origins to Revolutionary War ancestry. He finally discloses his father’s original name Lichterskendar ski before changing it to Dows under court approval.
In a bustling store a haughty matron fights for a box of three imported soaps, while a humble woman clings on to the prize amid elbows and scowls. Separate scenes capture a New England art class sketching, a cactus boast, shaving notes, and quips from urban crowds reflecting on modern life.
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