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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1906
Page
2
A garbled Williston Graphic page offers a patchwork of opinions and anecdotes. It references employers, a Philadelphia resident with a Bible, train car manners, Chinatown life, penmanship feats, celestial phenomena, Oxford stoppers, military badges, and a Tampa rooster tramp, all presented in a disjointed, opinionated collage.
A chance encounter at a Washington ball reveals a veteran general’s long guarded secret. He recounts disobeying orders to save a plantation mistress during Sherman’s march, falling in love with Florida Taylor and later discovering her in Georgia as a pension office clerk. The tale ends with their planned wedding in Atlanta.
The Fond du Lac Episcopal and rector Rev William Austin Smith clash over Bishop Charles Chapman Grafton. Smith attacks Grafton for prayers invoking pagan and Marian phrases in a Living Church piece, while Grafton defended as high church in a broad catholic Episcopal approach.
The Empresa Eugenie transfers Arenenberg Castle on Lake Constance to Thurgau canton. Napoleon III spent youth there, and Queen Hortense fled to Switzerland after a failed uprising. The castle houses Empress Josephine's harp and Queen Hortense's harpsichord.
Lieut Maurice B Shearer of Indianapolis is named governor of Midway Island, a small but strategic U S possession midway between Honolulu and the Philippines. At 26 he rose from private to second lieutenant after standout Marine Corps and Annapolis exams and will command a 3500-strong detail before sailing from San Francisco to Honolulu and then to Midway for the formal possession.
The Byzantine churchlike crematory in the accompanying picture is described as the handsome morgue, once San Francisco’s famed crematory the Columbarium. Time claimed the city enforced cremation for all, halting cemetery expansion, and the great burial grounds lay marked below. The crematory featured lavish niches and gallerylike walls with urns arranged above and below the line.
When Lord Dufferin, then viceroy of India, received a carved ivory paper knife from the Maharajah Holkar of Indore, he introduced a sharp tusked elephant into the room. The animal climbed to the papers, trimmed them with its tusks, and arranged the sheets in a neat heap for perusal.
A brief guide on estimating day and night lengths by doubling the night duration from the sun’s insist and doubling the setting time to obtain day length. This provides a simple rule of thumb for seasonal light variation.
Wilhelm Miller suggests turning cluttered back yards into beauty with living green screens. Virginia creeper on posts forms private arches. arbors with vines provide dry play space, tea areas, and practical shade. Garden borders, shrub groups, and curved lines create a pleasing, low effort landscape.
Two oatmeal bread recipes outline steps with oats lard molasses and yeast. No. 1 uses rolled oats water molasses and white flour. No. 2 combines hot water oats and yeast then kneads with bread flour after rising overnight. Also notes on furs should be kept dry and away from trunks while stored in a dry room.
Prune jelly is made by stewing two pounds prunes until tender, cooling, and pitting. Gelatin is dissolved in water then taxed with hot water and sugar, lemon juice, set in a cold-water bath, and stirred until thickened. Alternate layers of jelly and prunes form a mold, which is inverted to serve and garnished with whipped cream. Neat embroidered linen stock collars finish shirts, narrow designs, sailor knot at middle, slides add style.
Combine one quart flour with one cup butter or half butter and half lard. Stir in milk with a teaspoon salt until thin dough forms. Roll very thin, cut, and bake quickly. Crackers will be hard and keep well.
A remedy suggests two teaspoonfuls of finely powdered charcoal dissolved in half a tumbler of water to relieve headaches caused by excess acidity in the stomach, a common cause cited in the text. The guidance emphasizes this home remedy as a simple, readily available treatment.
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