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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1897
Page
3
London Truth appeals to women to end the feather craze in bonnets. It argues that each plume costs a maimed bird, urging immediate action to stop cruelty and spare birds for fashion. The piece frames women as responsible to speak out and reform this barbarous practice.
After a violent clash over arrests, Captain Close and Lieutenant Lambert confront a riot in Chittomingo county. Parmelee’s men ignite a confrontation with Potts supporters, Potts' mule is seized, and townspeople clash. Lambert learns Potts’s group fled son after a tense day, while Burnes coordinates a night muster to recover absentees as old Mrs. Walton watches from afar.
Attorney Robert F. Spearman recalls a Utah frontier tale near Beaver. A ranch attacked by Indians trapped a family. a 12 year old girl and her brother escaped through a canyon to Beaver for help. The siblings navigated the route to safety, aided by a relief party that arrived to rescue the beguiled household.
The piece presents a melancholy exchange between Mr Nerlity and his wife Norah Herlihy about wartime hardship and missed benefits from a pension. A second vignette from an English wedding features a clerk mishearing a witness’s surname McHuck as Mov Cue, with a joking reply about spelling.
A collage of brief humorous exchanges and gossip from various papers. Jests about writing versus bicycling, courting, marrying into a family, and a Turkish court gag highlight social mores and light satire. Notable lines include a rural editor thanking a donor, and a bawdy quip about a husband’s ambitions.
A Glasgow man recalls the Persian shah visiting a French theater and admiring a dancer. The shah meets MacKenzie, head of a powerful clan, and promises to see local Highland women perform at a castle gathering. The tale blends royal interest with Scottish hospitality and gossip.
A short notice notes Princess Ena's bold riding at Windsor a trait admired by observers. It describes her public duties and the mannerisms of the young royal, drawing comparisons to her royal grandmother and highlighting her popularity among older generations.
A fragment quotes a witty exchange about a husband forbidding his wife to ride a wheel, with a digressive remark that she overheard the claim. The line captures humor and social constraints of the era from the Detroit Free Press.
A poor village widow loses her abusive husband and faces limited sympathy from a shopkeeping woman. The wife bears bereavement with quiet acceptance, while neighbors, including Mrs G, struggle to respond. The scene, recounted in Tit-Bits, highlights hardship, restraint, and social distance.
The text asserts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal antidote and remedy for malaria, dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism, neuralgia, biliousness, nervousness, and loss of appetite and sleep, claiming medical men across North and South America, Guatemala, the West Indies, Australia, and Europe endorse its value, though tones of certainty vary.
A Detroit Free Press tale quotes a setback line about an intellectual woman inventor of the self rocking cradle. The punchline reveals the inventor was actually a man aiming to catch a baseball game, reflecting a humorous misperception about gender and innovation.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Poot-Ease for painful feet, corns, bunions, and sweating. It claims instant relief for hot or tired feet and offers a 25 cent price with a free trial package. Sold by druggists and shoe stores. requests readers write to Allen St. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y.
In a cryptic Shakespearean style dialogue Dee demotia asks Othello if fall has come, then she watches him load a revolver. He responds with a curt, intimate line about this and another evening, then uses a pillow to trap her in a fatal suffocation.
Victor Hugo asserts that living equals upholding justice truth reason devotion and duty and defines life as conscience by knowing one’s worth and what one should do.
A reader from Mount City, Illinois recounts a severe boil outbreak on her brother’s neck. After taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, one bottle eased symptoms, two bottles completed a cure, and he recovered fully.
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