Unreadable fragment suggests fishing tale from Wes Building era
Fragmentary text describes fishing activities with a right-hand bower Bilberg. The speaker urges attention and patting, mentioning Dad and a bobber and an ongoing waiting period.
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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1901
Page
2
Fragmentary text describes fishing activities with a right-hand bower Bilberg. The speaker urges attention and patting, mentioning Dad and a bobber and an ongoing waiting period.
In a Virginia colonial setting Maverick, facing financial ruin and political vendettas, clings to loyalty and old bonds as his young wife begs him to hurry to secure a mortgage. They move from boat to house seeking money while a fugitive treasurer haunts the dim, guarded rooms of their past.
Narrative fragments reveal Maverick and Julie plotting as a sheriff closes in on Haines. A moral edge runs through a tale of debt, betrayal, and hidden loyalties set beside a rural creek. Inner reflections turn to old resentments and a shifting power dynamic.
A writer notes the greyhound 49 fears the coyote, a seemingly harmless wild creature of the western hills. The dog chases rabbits and breaks their necks, yet coyote sighting unnerves him, revealing an odd bravado imbalance between predator and prey.
A German sewing machine agent plotted to defame a discharged employer by using a phonograph roll in a village inn. He narrated insults about his former friend into the recorder to slander him, hoping courts would punish. Patrons later fed coins and heard his words, leading to an unforeseen outcome.
Winston Spencer Church Hill recounts a scene where a coyote confronts a greyhound in the village streets. The coyote retreats at the slightest growl, highlighting coyotes' wary behavior and nocturnal prowling in winter.
In Cincinnati 200, two giraffes showed affection with mutual caresses and shared morsels. A male fed his partner and, amid a slander case backstory, a court fined an employer 50 marks after the phonograph testifying failed. Also noted is a fish intelligence anecdote from the New York Sun about two fish sensing prey.
The text blends scenes of animal affection and competitive behavior with notes on solan potatoes and a strange statement about Italian royal apartments. It juxtaposes tame observations of pets with cautionary health remarks about green or old potatoes and then shifts to reflections on fish behavior and intelligence.
A compilation of humorous quotes from newspapers showing witty exchanges and social scenes. Notable lines reference arts, travel, streetcar etiquette, funerals, tailoring, and college singers. Observed voices include Detroit Journal Ohio State Journal Philadelphia Times Cleveland Plain Dealer Philadelphia Pregs Indianapolis Newn.
A Chicago Tribune tale recounts two young women on a railroad excursion who missed the return to Chicago. They sent a telegram to the depot caller to announce they were safe with relatives in Bloomfield and would ride the first train home tomorrow morning. The scene drew anxious parents relief as the telegram cleared the confusion.
Chronicle notes the most costly funeral, estimating around a million spent to bury Alexander. The body lay in a gold coffin with costly aromatics and a diadem atop. A gold adorned funeral car required more than three years to transport from Babylon to Syria, drawn by four additional mules.
A sprawling mishmash of notes and quotations covers empire land grants in New Zealand, population stats on Jews in London and Germans using Polish, telephone and train lines to Buffalo for the Pan American Exposition. It references Albergo popolare in Milan, the Milwaukee road to Buffalo, and stray jokes from Philadelphia and Baltimore papers.
In Rockbridge Missouri the recovery of Ambrose McKay a respected Mason and neighbor is reported after years of diabetes rheumatism and kidney trouble. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills his pain subsided and he improved greatly with strong praise for the remedy and its growing Missouri reputation.
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