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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1903
Page
6
Henry Hillis recounts a fall from wealth and respectability after a chance encounter with a grotesque imp in a hotel leads to false arrest, disinheritance, and public shame. He describes injury, jail, and a ruined life as newspapers, a police report, and a bitter telegrams cascade destroy his prospects and heart.
A playful verse from Maude Whitmore Madden in Good Housekeeping describes a bedtime train journey. A mother and child board two engine cars and travel through tunnels toward a dark bedroom door, ending with the comforting idea that home is the bed station.
A Chicago Tribune late piece recalls cats with refined tastes and talents. Tom the 14 year old black cat adjusted to a speaking tube to seek help, while Bonny in New Jersey serenades piano keys and courts her mistress with playful tilts and climbs. Other felines join in guitar plinking and social presence, illustrating amusing animal intelligence.
A Corean crafted armchair assembled from a passive vine and gingko seeds grown into a hard, mahoganylike material. Brought to the United States by a sea captain, the chair measures three feet four inches tall and twenty five inches wide, weighing over a hundred pounds. The artifact, praised by Scientific American, shows unique gardening craft from the Far East.
Miss Sallie Blake of Calvert County Maryland fed decoc tion soaked grapes to her turkeys. After the jars were emptied the birds ate the grapes and became stupor. mistaken for dead they were plucked, revealing bare bodies. Next day the flock wandered about in red flannel coats.
A family in Tiffin Ohio moved, rented their old furnished home to an elderly woman. The family dog, kept in with the furniture, favored a parlor chair the new tenant also liked. To reclaim the chair the woman would shout cats at the window. The dog raced to the window, then returned and calmly sat in the chair, outsmarting the mistress.
A Philadelphia Press cited Mr. Manley’s dramatic recovery after medical efforts and a friend’s advice to take Dodd’s Kidney Pills. The note praised the remedy as a wondrous cure and urged others suffering to try it. The report captures public enthusiasm and testimonials from readers and physicians alike.
A testimonial from Mrs Launa L. in Washington D C praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a reliable remedy for women illness including backache irregular periods and nervous attacks. The letter asserts the medicine corrects female distress and restores health, claiming widespread trust and lifelong use.
A Congo Free State book describes natives feasting on white ants during a season called the white ant month. Rivers empty as people of all ages gather the insects by the hundreds, roast them after wing removal, and even boys catch and eat them directly at table by light.
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