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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1904
Page
6
An Irvington resident known as Burner boasts of his furnace methods to three visiting relatives. He emphasizes fuel, drafts, and ash removal as keys to winter comfort. In a single night a faulty setup leads to a deadly outcome, ending his confident demonstration amid a cold morning revelation.
A quirky tale follows Burner waking to a cold air from an open register then investigating the mystery of the frigid room. Separate column notes discuss Connecticut oyster farming, bee pollen baskets, and a Parisian revenge on a rent-evading tenant in a wary urban vignette.
An elderly woman traps a bailiff and a police officer in a fourth floor flat after locking the door and tossing the key out the window. Four hours pass as onlookers fear a murder, until a locksmith and police reveal the ruse and the chief escapes in a cab.
A Chicago Lawn owner recounts a deadly matchup between Valentine a star donkey and Proteus a goat. After repeated clashes amid icy pens the goat fatally injured Valentine. the fight ended with Proteus walking away and Valentine dying minutes later. Trainers and assistants failed to halt the attack. A later note covers cheap waterproof cloaks made in Japan for 20 cents.
Pierre Loti, commander of the French warship Vautour, baptized a cat aboard his ship in Stamboul. An Odin altar was set in the dining saloon as verses by Loti were recited and the cat Belkes received Scandinavian rites and a protective blessing against rats while keeping the ship’s opalescent eyes.
At Gravel Creek eight miles south of Nashville Indiana a stranger enters Alexander Shipley’s country store. While Mrs Shipley tends the counter the visitor, claiming hunger after a day in the woods, asks for food and is provided with it. The account ends abruptly with the stranger’s approach.
Mrs Shipley confronted a would be thief while working with glassware after two guests fled. A revolver appeared and she fired, wounding no one as the tramp fled. She retrieved his gun and returned to work, claiming the attacker would remember his escape. Her husband later saw the man several miles away walking rapidly.
A Pittsburg magistrate Joseph H. Vichestain used a jail pairing method to curb a young man’s drunkenness. He placed the intoxicated man with a raving lunatic in a padded cell and subjected him to hours of coercive suggestion by a madman who claimed to be Croesus and would grant vast wealth. The tactic sobered the youth. no liquor passed his lips for five weeks afterward.
A New York Sun anecdote recasts Heinrich Conried’s Peoria visit as a comic-seeming lesson on pride. Conried recalls a German saloon kiss and a later denial that he remembered such praise, illustrating how fame can distort memory and ego.
In pervasive Chinatown gossip, Ah Moy sells his newborn daughter after his wife bears a seventh child. Lee Tuol purchases the girl, who is shaved as a sign of taken ownership, amid a celebratory feast and fireworks. The episode highlights traditional tensions over girl children in a mixed cultural setting.
Mrs Mike Huller a Henderson Ky grocer hid seventy six dollars in bills under floor planks. Weeks later a rat gnawed through and moved the cash, later found intact but tucked in a rat bed beneath flooring.
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