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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1903
Page
2
Poem lament from Chicago Inter Ocean about a lifelong bond severed by death. Narrator mourns lost partner, asks if love began with life and ends only with death, and prays for reunification in heaven. Dated voice reflects early 20th century sentimental lyricism.
Dorothy, a widow, sits before a driftwood fire weighing a life split between two men Thurston and Tom. She discovers deceit from Helen Grantley in Tom’s letters and pictures. anger, resolve, and a plan unfold as she contemplates a life away from Japan.
The Chicago Record-Herald reports that fashionable men must skip Panama hats this summer. Sinners of style cringe as a man who bought a Panama last summer for 25 dollars may regret the expense and trend shift.
An 1638 cookery manual titled Murrells Two Books of Cookerie and Carving is described. It offers period recipes such as red deete baked in rye paste with butter and vinegar, fritters on the court fashion with curds and eggs, and a blancmange evolution. The piece notes historical cooking methods and a gel like amber colored jelly from pippins.
Practical household guidance covers whitening clothes with turpentine strips, potato rub for knife stains, sunshine to lift scorches, paraffin lighting tips, selecting codfish, proper table setting, rust removal with oil and lime, making linen bags from towels, and care of fringed linens and doilies with a new coarse-tooth comb.
The Brooklyn Eagle advises washing aluminum articles with warm soap and water, rinsing, drying, then polishing with chamois skin. For heavy dirt a paste of whiting and water or methylated spirit is applied, left to act, then buffed with leather. Do not use soda as it blackens the metal. The text notes the average annual temperature of Sithe and Omaha is the same.
A discussion notes the shift in the perceived "old maid" age from 25 to 30, arguing women in their thirties rival younger seasons in charm and influence. It praises mature women for broader experience, warns against youthful shyness, and urges spinsterhood to be embraced boldly while maintaining grace without pretension.
Dent five eggs and five tablespoon fuls of rich milk or cream togethers add half a teaspoonful of finely minced parsley. Simmer six very thin slices of bacon in boiling wa ter five minutes. Put a piece of butter in the omelet pan and when hot pour in a thin layer of the egg mixture. Lay on this the slices of bacon wiped dry pour in remainder of the egg and cook over a slow clear fire hard roll best. When it begins to set turn into a buttered tin that will jnet fit the top of omelet pan, then slide back into the pan again and brown the other side.
A fragmentary quote captures a character’s reaction to a chaotic scene during a fire sale. The speaker dreads buying more clothes, admitting mere bad luck as the event unfolds with urgency and tension.
Lord Rayleigh notes oil films may be as thin as one twenty fifth millionth of an inch matching a molecule’s size. Haecher warns cold baths harm children, raising susceptibility to colds. Signor Pinos presents a hydroscope claiming deep sea visibility and shipboard control. A new air bubble therapy reportedly relieves neuralgia and injuries. Helberger’s electric field experiments drive insects from soil, freeing ground over large areas.
A collage of quips and jokes from various papers features puns about panes, heiresses, and finance. Light, era-tinged snippets from Detroit Free Press Yonkers Statesman Chicago Daily News Washington Star Philadelphia Press and London Tit-Bits play on money, marriage, trade, and punctuality with brisk, ironic humor.
In a Cincinnati Enquirer piece a party member muses that a true umpire who can please both sides deserves a front row seat in heaven. The human question asks who is entitled to that seat. The exchange frames the umpire as a model of fairness and skill.
Ella Dixon argues against criticizing women for extravagance in dress noting men overindulge in other areas. She contends Victorian restraints harmed women’s ambitions and asserts brighter days come with pleasurable clothes, often beyond modest means.
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