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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1901
Page
2
A poem by G. W. Hendricks in Buccess urges readers to start immediate effort. It contrasts unborn day fantasies with present action and warns that waiting leads to missed opportunities and unfulfilled dreams.
In a neighborhood between a high school and a church, the Barker children imitate every event around them. Grace plans a social ruse to meet a celebrated novelist, while Tom aims to learn the craft of writing, stirring tensions as their antics escalate.
Grace and Tom stage a backyard chess show for Grace’s publisher guest, charging two cents per child. The novelist, amused by the scene, shakes hands with admiring youngsters as the crowd gawps at the makeshift spectacle. Tom and Grace hide the earnings to buy rabbits, planning a quick escape before trouble arrives.
In a clipped legal quip a lawyer questions grounds for divorce while a speaker insists on desertion not exertion. The piece recalls a mining boot-loss tale from a 120 foot drop, notes boots found high in a shaft, and veers to verse and social gossip about a wife and a poet.
In Franke Leslie's Popular Monthly an article details Plymouth Wyoming valley mine fire caused by a breaker blaze. Blazing timbers blocked entry as pumps and nearby river water battled the inferno, flooding the shaft to the bottom and permeating every nook where fire could seek refuge.
A New York organ maker described a trunk built to transport an organ for evangelist Ira D. Sankey. The trunk allowed rapid setup on stage, keeping the instrument safe and ready for use during travels. It may rank among the longest continuous journeys for an organ model.
The text describes Col Henry Steele Olcott being lodged while floodwaters are pumped from a mine. Five months of constant pumping, followed by repairs, reveal a large fire deep below the water line. Air and gases from the fire created a cushion that held back the flood, requiring vent holes and renewed flooding efforts. Operations finally resumed after two years.
A somnambulism case from St Badaire at Blois is noted by Dr Dufay and printed in Proceedings. The article hints at organs carried by traveling shows and trunks, implying a curious circus era practice.
The New York Press discusses seven as a holy number and forty as superstitious, comparing forty to thirteen. It recalls Moses on the mount for forty days, Elijah fed for forty, rain lasting forty days, and Noah’s ark era lasting forty days.
The diary recounts Theo phile Janiaud a sleepwalking pupil at a normal school who, July in his second year, walked with his brother in law M Simonet toward a river path. A misjudged step in darkness nearly endangered him as he boasted he could see better and asked if the match underfoot glowed. The narrative blends folk beliefs with biblical allusions and notes on animal lifespans.
A Scientific American account describes the whale rich channel off California from Santa Barbara to San Nicolas as a natural ocean highway. It notes the California gray whale migratory procession, encounters with ships, and legends of a whale graveyard near Santa Rosa Island during storms.
A man at a hotel table fumbles through a French menu asking for Latin phrases and odd dishes. The waiter searches the kitchen for sine qua non tempus fungi and pluribus unum until offering beer and gooseberry tart. The note closes with a claim about playing cards made in Mus country and European taxes.
A compiled list explaining common Wall Street terms and jargon from watering to bull and bear phrases. It defines jargon such as watering carrying Irish dividend vip hunch and more, noting bulls bears short long and other market actions and conditions.
A Boston firm finished a colossal timepiece for a Manhattan watch retailer. The seven foot pedestal supports a four foot dial, electric illumination, and three foot crystals to be seen from blocks away. The two foot thick case, plated with carat gold, houses astronomical adjustments and costs about five thousand dollars after four years of work.
A collection of odd statistics and quotes including population and rail figures for Sydney, prison policy, agricultural data, and economic anecdotes. The text mixes scientific curiosities with humorous slips and brief captions, offering a snapshot of trivia and popular sayings of the era.
A period piece notes fake hair products irritate scalps and dry hair, with dandruff blamed as the cause of hair loss. It cites Newberry’s Herpicide as a germ-killing cure, then shifts to assorted ads and snippets about fashion, shoes, and remedies, including Allen’s Foot-Ease and various notices.
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