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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1902
Page
2
Brief lyric prose from the Washington Star reflecting on missed chances to buy property or stock. It laments hindsight and the tendency to blame prior actions, noting how history would claim each enterprise would have succeeded if different choices had been made.
A fragment from Henry Hyde’s One Forty-Two presents a city messenger boy narrating a Friday dog call to fetch a poodle from a swell flat. The scene follows the boss’s warning, the bath scene, and a flirtatious buyer with a sly promotion, ending with the boy's brash resolve to handle the task.
A first person narrator recounts luring Trilby away by staging a kidnap ruse. He hides the dog in a basket, dumps him in water, and uses a fake rescue to provoke the old daisy to offer a reward. She pays ten dollars after the ruse, while the narrator pockets the money and mocks her gullibility.
In Ghent Belgium a highly trained police dog unit has become a recognized part of the town constabulary. Chief Commissioner Van Weseman trained the dogs to high efficiency and crime in the city is said to have fallen by two thirds since their introduction. The remarkable dog driven force performs tasks from guiding the blind to patrolling streets and enforcing order.
A retired officer argues that the United States should fund annual militia encampments of 40 to 60 days in every state. Officers and men would be paid like regular army personnel during these camps. Held during school holidays, encampments would attract students and build a ready force of about 250,000 in a few years.
A Philadelphia Ledger report summarizes Prof. Percival Lowell’s December 1900 Martian ejections. He argues they differ from lunar projections, arise from high altitude cloud generation along Mars’s heat equator, travel northwest, reach about 8.4 miles height, then vanish as sunlight sets. Prof Spyder and Gogovsky corroborate the interpretation.
A fragment discusses the production of artificial ice, explaining the principle that compressing a gas generates heat and that removing this heat enables ice formation. The text outlines the basic thermodynamic concept behind artificial ice making.
The piece discusses royal godfather duties among nobility, naming peers and heirs, with a note on tipping practices in a Manchester hotel. It also explains ammonia cooling via steam pumps and expansion vessels, detailing heat transfer to water and ice formation, and lists population counts by region in the German empire plus other nations.
Fashion notes praise hand painted buttons and semiprecious accents on gowns with black velvet and empire sleeve mantles. Turquoise, coral, and amethyst embellish gowns while novel petticoats use lightweight jersey and silk ruffles. Also offered are care tips for infants emphasizing fresh air, loose clothing, and minimal overfeeding to avoid illness.
Overwork and under oxygenation were linked to waste buildup acting as a poison. Sir J Sawyer Birmingham agreed much chronic invalidism stems from chronic suboxidation and poor in-door air. The claim: ventilation matters for vitality, with one third of life spent in bedrooms where air is poisoned beyond tolerable in a sitting room. Open-air exercise cited as remedy for nervous disease and neurasthenia per Medical Record.
An editorial note argues that begin should be chosen over commence in daily writing. It claims begin carries strength and simplicity, while commence supplies a relic from older, fancier usage. The piece cites Elizabeth 4 Withey and Ladies' Home Journal while contrasting origins of the two verbs.
The article recalls strict pest quarantine in San Francisco, describing bans on landing cucumber and orange maggots, scale insects, and other invasive pests threatening California crops. It notes fires destroying infested shipments, enforcement actions, and the hope that vigilant officers protect the United States from agricultural blights.
The official 1900 population statistics for France show births exceeding deaths in most departments, with Paris showing higher divorce rates and births. It notes 72,121 legitimate births in 1000 with 19,141 in Paris, and a gender ratio of 21 males per 20 females. Also mentions detectives chosen for olfactory abilities and a scientist claiming unique scent signatures.
Fragmentary OCR recalls a domestic dispute where a husband argues a wife should rise to light the fires, revealing tensions between labor and home duties. A telephone interruption and scattered quotes hint at a broader mix of society items and ads from the era.
Mrs Hulda Jakeman wife of Elders of the Mormon Church from Ealt Tate City Utah reports severe menstrual pain and bed confinement. After six months on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound her health fully restored with no recurring symptoms. She endorses the product and notes Lydia E Pinkham offers free advice from Lyon Massachusetts.
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