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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1905
Page
2
In a sunlit countryside escapade Charley and Reginald race for Benborough with Phoebe and Melinda in tow. A reckless drive turns perilous when Melinda faints and Reginald battles to control the car, only to learn the passenger is Phoebe and the danger clear.
United States Consul Kehl reports in Stettin that northern Germany embarks on an imitation sandstone or beton government insurance building. Details describe faux red granite railing and hallways, brick framework faced with imitation stone, and plaster molds for ornaments. The method claims 60 percent savings with durability comparable to real stone.
A white potato variety from Uruguay is being cultivated in France and could replace the Irish potato. After several years it becomes an excellent food, yields highly, resists potato diseases, and thrives in moist soils near the Mercedes River marshes in Uruguay. Its jasmine scented flowers yield fragrant extract. The plant self propagates from a remaining root after one planting.
A woman, angered after allegedly beating her husband and knocking him down at Broadway and Thirty-third Street yesterday, denounced him as a brute in a remark captured by the New York Sum.
The massive Greenland meteorite, weighing about 7.4 tons, was hauled to New York by Lieut. Peary and staged at the American Museum of Natural History. Described as eight by twelve feet and six feet thick, the iron rock links Inuit tool origins to the famed Iron Mountains reportedly found near Melville Bay.
Grigsby, a clever agent, peddled a patent hair dye door to door but was met with slammed doors. A fearful woman with gray locks suggested a brown boot polish instead. He offered two shillings for both uses and swiftly departed without payment.
In a humorous skit from Smiths Weekly a tired widow Mrs Hingso wakes to burglars and dismisses fear while her husband resists danger. The odd scene escalates as wine thieves in the cellar are discovered and revolver questions arise amid comic bravado. Included is a clipped note from Chicago Chronicia about Commissioner Ware threatening a transfer.
Fashion guidance on modern coiffure rules from Mme in Mode, urging removal of the rat from the pompadour except for the white haired grande dame. It details clever compromises like side parts, marcelled front, and light three-puff waves to frame the face and finish with a knotted back, avoiding excessive height near the collar.
A how to on molding a child's nose into a Grecian shape through day by day massage. It warns against breathing difficulties and irritation, noting cartilage softness allows flattening or lifting. It also claims eyebrow shaping can be improved with treatment for children.
The text lists old kitchen rules such as two cupfuls per pint and four per quart, with various substitutions for salt flour milk butter and extracts. It also includes jokes about household rulership and a remark about a baby and mother in law, attributed to the Chicago News.
A Chicago Journal column argues housework benefits health and figure. It urges proper sweeping, dusting, and scrubbing from the shoulders, with breathing and posture improvements to develop broad chests and toned arms.
The Millinery Trade Review notes color harmonies in hats using plumage and felt. It describes pink and white camellias with green leaves, long ostrich tips in rose pink and copper red, and moss green felt hats trimmed with turquoise, saffron, and moss green tips. Feathers are arranged to curve over the brim, ribbons bound at the crown, and streamers hang over shoulders.
The housekeeper's slate is praised as a useful and valuable gift for brides and older household staff. It suggests buying a thick slate, framing it simply, and adding screw eyes for hanging plus cords for a pencil and sponge, turning it into a practical kitchen helper.
Instructions describe a chatelaine sewing bag crafted from two inch satin ribbon joined into a loop tied by a large ribbon bow. Tools such as a spool of silk glove mender emery and small scissors attach to ribbon ends. A silk work bag uses silk fabric, a round silk covered cardboard bottom, and an oval metallic bag top with a gathering string.
A garbled OCR passage mentions phrases like Nothing But the Truth, the Real Thing, and a confused exchange about Dobson the composer. It reads as scattered dialogue and lines from a dated column, with unclear context and numerous misspellings.
A Cleveland Leader fragment reports Mr. George Peel, a respected Iowa resident, praising Dodd's Kidney Pills as curing Bright's Disease and kidney trouble after years of ailment. He credits two boxes for full recovery and extols the remedy's universal curative claim. The piece also references ad lines and unrelated clippings from other papers.
Mrs Williams describes thirteen years of nervous prostration with exhaustion and heart symptoms. After ineffective kidney and change of life treatments in 1908 she found relief only after July 1903 with Dr Williams Pink Pills. Two months of use revived appetite, strength, and cheerfulness, per her account.
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