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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1906
Page
3
An autumn bride elect hosted a cheerful afternoon party for eight guests with recipes, a recipe book signed by each guest, and a salad served from the hostess’s own mix. Children enjoyed dressmaking crafts, paper doll activities, and light refreshments in a busy, family friendly setting.
A 30 member literary club devised clever fundraisers for charity. Baskets filled with copper were auctioned to 30 men who bid and found a lady’s card inside each gift. The event included tea coffee ices and a playful guessing game using state abbreviations. A Quaker tea party and a paper doll party followed with themed attire and simple refreshments.
Mme Qui Vive urges proper hygiene for lustrous eyes in the Chicago Record Herald. Clear water baths and avoiding strain protect vision. a boric acid camphor lotion is suggested for inflammation and tiredness. Eyebrows and eyelashes respond to good treatment. avoid reading in poor light and heavy embroidery.
An old guide suggests brushing thin brows with olive oil or pomatum, and applying a mix of red vaseline tincture of cantharides Jamaica ram and rosemary oil twice daily. It also offers a glycerine rosewater tonic, warns against overgrowth removal by electrolysis, and notes Germany made brow tinting products priced around 60 cents with caution to avoid skin discoloration.
Shoe Dealer notes this country leads in hides and skins consumption with yearly figures: 48,000,000 wheat skins, 24,000,000 sheep skins, 16,000,000 hides, 9,000,000 calf skins, and 2,000,000 other skins. Total value about 50 million dollars. imports 10 million hides and 17 million other skins. Germany imports one third less. England and France half as much.
A short moral piece condemns the selfish girl who hides a good she could share. It contrasts her with a friend who is unhappy when a chum has a nicer gown, and withholds introductions to avoid a rival becoming a favorite. The tone warns against envy and vanity.
A reflective note argues that good breeding stems from the heart rather than manuals of manners and that it underpins social popularity as an unseen standard. It emphasizes character over technique in interpersonal regard.
The fragment notes a daring use of blue with pink in French fashion this year, praising the combination as refreshing, beautiful, and girlish. It reflects contemporary style commentary with no additional specifics.
Betsy witnesses campers taunting a captive bear as it begs for peanuts. The bear speaks to her from the cage about life in the woods and longing for freedom. Betsy vows to return with peanuts while an adult leads her away.
A camel’s stomach contains four compartments with walls lined by large openable cells. When drinking, the camel fills each cell, then gradually releases water over days, allowing it to go five or six days without drinking. This enables long desert travel between distant wells.
A well brought up girl named Margaret is taken to a country house with a large dog. She uses etiquette learned at dancing school to introduce herself politely, then pats the dog as it wags its tail graciously. Detroit Free Press.
A traveler recounts a rhinoceros chase in Transvaal country with three Dutch hunters. After a horned beast chased the camp a native decoy and a pit saved a man, then the party lassoed and ferried the animal onto a barge near Hamburg. The 30 year old rhino, deemed fit for 50 or 60 more, was captured without injury.
A puzzle uses 17 slips three inches by a quarter inch laid to form six squares. Remove five slips to leave three perfect squares. The solution shows removing slips 2 7 9 14 17 to leave the three squares, and suggests a contest among youths to find the fastest solution.
A Boston Globe poem praising Uncle Joe as the best uncle among numerous uncles. The speaker, Billy, recalls Uncle Joe’s guidance and playful admonitions, contrasting it with other uncles who scold or lecture. The piece ends with affection for Uncle Joe and a nod to family bonding through simple fun.
A National Tribune correspondent recalls a Florence prison episode from September 1864, recounting evading guards during stockade construction, a brutal exit through surrounding lines, and injuries from a bayonet and musket fire while crossing to freedom. The narrator reflects on endurance in Civil War prisons including Andersonville.
Chicago Inter Ocean recalls tales from 1863 February 14 at Lexington Missouri and Youngs Point Louisiana. Veterans recount a lightning bolt striking a tent near battle lines, killing two and injuring four noncommissioned officers, with rumors of lasting disability and strange postshock experiences.
Mrs. M. W. Fogarty of Yankton writes to the National Tribune about a Bible given to her husband in Annapolis hospital. The heirloom contains the family record of Thomas Randolph Harrison and Julia Leigh and was taken from a White House Landing library after Seven Pines. She hopes to return it to the rightful owners or heirs under the Garden Rule.
In Woolwich Kent England an epitaph honors Maj James Brush Royal Artillery killed by an accidental pistol discharge by his orderly on 14 April 1881. The inscription reads Well done good and faithful servant.
The French war department tests a new machine gun design described as a trimming gun capable of firing 00 bullets per second. No further details on accuracy, rate, or deployment are provided in the fragment.
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