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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1898
Page
2
The piece describes a kind elderly man wandering sunny streets, observing children he meets and gently comforting lonely or fretful kids. He guides them with calm hands, treating each as his own, hoping readers notice his quiet kindness strolling through their neighborhood.
Hartley confronts inmate Keene with a dramatic breakdown of his planned murder and staged insanity. Hartley explains the defendant’s calculated acts to create an airtight insanity defense while Keene rages and resists, climaxing in a violent disruption of the interview. A sudden jailer’s cry interrupts as a new line about South Carolina public schools appears.
A collage of quips and jokes from various papers including Puck Brooklyn Life Chicago News Cleveland Leader and Washington Star. Includes quick exchanges about food memories bad risks with life insurance and a gag about cannibals in Kansas.
Seattle correspondent reports from a Klondike camp along Sulphur Creek with miner fortunes and risk. Joseph Green, colonel of Washington's First Regiment, details wages, high grub costs, and open gambling while staking a 50 by 60 foot town lot. He cites $125 in three hours and about $3,000 in two weeks from sluice work, plus a $9.15 nugget.
A patchwork of facts from science, literature and industry. Avaxix and Zora’s book fortunes are noted alongside royalties for Gospel hymns, the first electric car in 60 years, and a statue of curiosities: a Brussels wind powered clock, a New Testament switch derailment, and global lamp power rising to 400 million candles. Reports cover tastes in clothing, coinage, and bread consumption in cold weather, with portraits of notable figures such as Tennyson and Charlotte Bronte’s bridesmaid Nussey, plus notes on education, health, and novelty devices.
A four year review of railway transactions highlights the Nickel Plate Road as a standout, expanding facilities, equipment, and service despite economic depression. The public’s generous patronage supports better facilities at lower rates, delivering a peerless trio of fast trains for travelers east or west, says George A. Benham.
An insurance man recalls a man who insured 100 cigars per box totaling 10 000 cigars valued at ten cents each. The insured later claimed the payout after smoking them saying the policy paid if goods were consumed by fire. The insurer warned of incendiarism and the room shook as the door slammed.
From Seattle the Great Northern Railway receives 27 pounds 11 ounces of Alaska gold dust and nuggets, including a 1 pound 6 ounce nugget from Bonanza Creek and several rivers in Circle City and Tanana districts. The shipment will be shown here briefly before being sent to eastern general agencies for exhibition. This is the largest Alaska gold quantity handled outside banks and mints to date.
Fragmented OCR summary references Brats or Omo Locan County and a senior partner J Cheney with details about a firm and payments per cane. The text is garbled but suggests a sworn statement dated the sixth day and a sale or cure claim mentioned.
A disjointed collage shows travel envy and warnings, then shifts to patent medicines and tonics such as Bitters and Dr. Miller remedies. It extols stomach health, rheumatism relief, and liver cure while urging readers to try tonics and laxatives, with scattered mentions of newspapers and locations.
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