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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1904
Page
6
Early visitors report the St Louis exposition is fully completed with a grand, sprawling display. The Pike blends education with entertainment as powerplants, turbine engines, and giant machinery showcase progress while living costs remain affordable for visitors and locals alike.
In Butte Montana a luxuriously furnished gambling house caters to women patrons with discreet play and silent dealers. Fashionable players wager copper coins converted to chips while a waiter girl wins and loses large sums, exposing the house as a tight, risky game where the tiger rules.
The London Lancet notes that many people in prosperous circumstances die in their sixties from maladies of degeneration and premature senility. It contrasts two groups: those who self medicate due to appetites and those who live reasonably and seek relief from digestion issues by correcting errors.
A demure woman with a baby sits amid a crowded carriage. The infant, seated on her lap, kicks its feet as a fierce-looking man with a newspaper brushes against his trousers. He jokes that she treats the ride as a private carriage, she denies it with a sharp reply.
A fragmented poem narrative begins with whimsical verses about Niddy Noddy and a child’s plea for light. It shifts to Marian Phelps in Chicago Advance urging perseverance, urging readers to refuse to be put back and to keep trying despite discouragement, noting British resolve in warfare as a metaphor for resilience.
Yardmaster Turner of the Evansville and Terre Haute railroad misses work after an attack by a highwayman. His dog, loyal to the yard office routine, showed distress and later plunged into boiling pitch, leading railroad men to believe the dog died by its own act. Electric lights in Egypt brighten interior cities as nearly all towns gain electrical illumination.
A London Zoo experiment shows zebras can be tamed for riding. Captain Horace Hayes broke in a nine year old zebra named Jennie from Abyssinia, first resisting then accepting a halter and saddle after a lengthy handling process. Jennie soon proved intelligent, fast, and reliable as a saddle horse.
In a rural tale from the Dr. Allen household, Jack Myers borrows the doctor’s horse and buggy for a prank. Charlie the horse accelerates toward home as Jack’s friends watch, prompting a four mile chase. Jack apologizes and pays ten dollars, the doctor’s cost for the ride, learning a hard lesson about meddlesome tricks. Charlie is hailed as the story’s hero for his faithful effort and return to the stable.
A Savannah clubwoman testifies she was cured of ovarian and uterine troubles by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after four years of irregularities. She reports full restoration in three months and urges others to seek the remedy, noting doctors failed her. A note claims $5000 for genuineness proof.
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