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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1903
Page
2
A verse from Alonzo Rice in the Indianapolis Journal recalls a hillside home lit by a mother's care. The speaker traces memory across foreign landscapes and fields, reading love’s message in a glowing casement light as a guiding beacon for return to home.
A narrator recalls rivalries among girls Daisy Tyler and Philippa, a childhood crush, and ten years later a dinner reunion. Philippa recalls a shared past, tests the narrator, and he finally confesses love, aided by a quatrain exchange and a forgiving kiss.
The Washington Star reports a humorous reminiscence by a Gettysburg veteran, recalling a recruiting officer in Buffalo who bought a fake Indigenous figure as a substitute for $400, only to find a wooden cigar store chief. The tale ends with a skeptical note on the era of substitutes and frauds amid wartime demand.
The article notes certain substances harm humans less, with animals tolerating poisons differently, such as horses with antimony and goats with tobacco, while dogs and cats suffer more from chloroform. It also recounts a girl asking her mother beside a cemetery how long tombstones take to grow after planting people, illustrating a grim rural curiosity.
A well known physician warns against entering water after a hearty meal. Waggs quips that one should instead head to a first class restaurant if the purse allows. Chicago Daily News.
A Confederate era account recalls a squad forced entry into a rich plantation home after being denied food. The narrator describes finding ample bread meat sugar and other provisions and sharing them with his squad before returning to camp with glee while noting the ladies survived without apparent starvation.
Jack and Dorothy, poor country children, miss the parade and circus due to strawberry picking. The dreamlike night leads to the circus watering stop and a child ride on a gentle elephant, ending with the line that the circus came to them. Based on a N. Tribune item.
A whimsical verse about a kitten fearing dogs, who buys a cat-boat to flee to sea. He sails with a crew and a nightly dog-watch, but a pursuing ocean greyhound appears, forcing despair. Carolyn Wells, in St. Nicholas.
The article chronicles a long pattern of bounty-jumping by Marry EK Mason, detailing multiple enlistments and desertions from 1901 to 1902 under diverse names such as Harry E Lowe Carry Edwards Harry Briggs Harry Dubois Harry S Bates Harry Hastings and Harry Lewis. It notes potential bounty payments and questions the motive for such frequent changes while listing enlistments in Brooklyn Detroit Philadelphia Louisville St Louis Mobile and Cincinnati.
A fragment notes a remarkable insect that imitates leaves, praised as one of the most wonderful examples of mimicking nature. The text hints at close scrutiny revealing it is not vegetable matter but an animal disguise.
The Detroit Free Press describes insects in Java that counterfeit green leaves so closely that they deceive the eye even at close view. The coloring matter mirrors chlorophyll, and natives say the bugs originate as buds transformed into leaves. A leaf butterfly resembles other butterflies until perched, where its wings align to resemble a leaf with visible ribs.
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