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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
2
A speaker laments urban life and crowding, longing for a rural return. The voice recalls leaving home for work, feeling unnoticed, and imagines the countryside as a place where the trees nod in greeting and the box can sleep on the kitchen door step. The piece contrasts city bustle with simple labor at the farm.
A handbill shows a $5,000 reward for the arrest of John Rawlins Glimmer, a 48 year old red haired man missing two fingers and with a neck scar. The fugitive allegedly embezzled $250,000 from Newton National Bank and fled from New York to Chicago, with cops tracking him as he is described in detail and sought by authorities.
A scrambled diary style tale follows a driver and a fly carrier from the stable to a foundry caper. Characters named Tod, Mike, Rawlins Glimmers, and a partner pursue a missing fly amid a sequence of stumbles, a staged radio call, and a $310,000 reward in a curious local incident.
A miscellany of notes recounts New Yorkera's plan to invest $1,000,000 in a winter resort on Berida Island, details about Cardinal Mezzofanti's language prowess, a luxury houseboat on the Hudson, and quirky historical and local anecdotes.
The engineer and fireman claim Bill Dalton’s ghost held up a Kansas City bound Iron Mountain train for 49 minutes near the Verdigris bottoms between Claremore and Nowata. The superintendent suspended both men, later reinstating them, while investigators seek the truth. A Cherokee Nation tale includes Id Cherokee Bill and a later ghostly return to the cab.
A debate quotes Dr Oldun on admitting others to a sick room and preparing a patient for the hereafter. The Baltimore American reporter notes a sharp exchange suggesting a physician must understand his business, with a retort about whether lack of understanding excuses the claim.
Ohio State Journal reports Mr Nobb Now's son making headlines on campus due to a seniors nose injury in a cane rush and involvement in three freshmen incidents the prior week.
James McMenamin, famed crab canner and sole keeper of a secret canning method, has died in Baltimore. He built a Hampton Virginia cannery that ran six months yearly and reportedly earned about $1,000,000 from crab meat. His will or heirs may reveal his process, or the plant may close. He moved from Massachusetts to Virginia in 1875 and, aided by Mayor Whitehead, began his cannery venture.
Bishop Newnham of Moosonee diocese, about 1 000 miles north of Winnipeg and west of Hudson Bay, reached Toronto after a 1500 mile snowshoe trek lasting over four months. His party, including Indians, pulled sleds as temperatures plunged to 40 degrees below zero and nights were spent in skin bags. They traveled 20 to 25 miles daily, endured a torn log house, and arrived in good health with no home news since Christmas.
A Hampton cannery evolved from a small to a large plant yet has never fully satisfied demand for canned crab meat. Proprietor directed operations with a large force of colored workers extracting meat, then processed in a locked room overseen by Mr McMenamin before sealing into cans.
A fragmentary report cites a New York Sun remark about a steamship line settling on air-filled mattresses for upper berth rooms and a strange note on Victoria's death. It then shifts to Bishop Newnham visiting the city to aid a diocese, describing a barren Esquimaux region where natives subsist on hunting and fishing and have faced famine and dog meat in lean years.
Japan's coastline and harbors present scant lure for invaders. Few beaches, steep cliffs, and fortified shores protect anchorages with modern artillery. Yeddo Bay stands as the most feasible bight for a potential assault.
Dr Koideny of Herlin Germany unearthed a life size mosaic of a man from Nebuchadnezzar era near a Babylonian temple site. Found ten feet from a temple wall the colors remain vivid and gloss largely intact. The artwork is on display in Berlin and showcases high ancient art standards.
The article recalls steamer life preservers failing when mattresses burst after pin pricks, notes pins used as mischief, and reports a company warning against using pine in berths. It mentions wartime naval caution, a steam-propelled path through danger, and asserts invasion of Japan is unlikely. It ends with a New York judge ruling that married women’s wages belong to their husbands, reflecting gender views of the era.
A Saskatoon district correspondent extols western Canada as a fertile, healthy prairie for American settlers. The land offers rich loam soils, two soil varieties, top fertility, and favorable climate with long growing seasons, good drainage, and abundant water. The South Saskatchewan River provides navigation, and vast grasses support stock raising and dairy farming, with strong rail access and marketing potential.
A promotional feature extols Mrs. Pinkham guiding women with private troubles for twenty five years. It praises Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound as a curative aid for ovarian and womb inflammation and urges readers to seek her free advice at Lynn Mass through Mrs Chappell of Grant Park Michigan who endorses the remedy.
A compilation of scattered notes notes various subjects including Minnesota inmates in 1897, abolishing compulsory vaccination societies, a potential park sabotage, preservation efforts for Andrew Johnson’s boyhood home, Havana cigar trade, a nine acre hotel serving 6000, Philip Armour quote on keeping quiet, Michigan steamship on Great Lakes duty, and New York public school bath improvements with 14 showers and spray system for efficiency.
Aldrich Missouri May 27 Mrs Mollie Moore of this place suffered severe nervousness and kidney disease. Four doctors predicted death before she began using Dodds Kidney Pills. She improved immediately and has continued to improve, with many praising the remedy as curing cases once deemed incurable.
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