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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1904
Page
6
Peter battles storms and pride over Kitty during a summer by a lake. A dangerous voyage tests enduring love as Peter confronts Kitty’s shifting feelings and resolves to win her with patient courage. In a dramatic fall, both survive and Kitty softens, prompting a renewed proposal.
A Connecticut tavern deal ends with the farmer counting 25 eggs after agreeing to two dozen. The proprietor offers the extra egg and a small token, but the farmer refuses, accepts the 25 eggs, and pockets his money. The proprietor then asks what next. The farmer replies with a joke order: Sherry and egg.
A sentencing judge spares Mrs. Alta Peltier five years for misleading young girls due to mercy shown by her five month old baby in court. The infant accompanies her to Auburn prison under an indeterminate term, prompting officials to discuss the effects of prison life on babies and the rarity of child custody until release.
German ship brings six French convicts escaped from Noumea penal settlement to Brisbane. On drift of 46 days they reach New Guinea and are arrested. After recovery they are sent back to Noumea where about 7 500 convicts are held amid a 53 000 population.
A poem note by Eunice Ward in St Nicholas recounts two china dolls debating origins from China. They clash over eye and hair color, learning that many kinds of china dolls exist worldwide.
A trained baboon named Maj Kelly is described as a valuable and cultured pet with a $23,000 insurance value. He attends a social gathering wearing evening attire, greets guests, and even performs a Paderewski imitation at the piano before retiring to the smoking room with the men.
Philadelphia physician Dr Edward Martian hosts a party for girls at his country home near Wallingford. A cow eyeing a girl in a red dress becomes the comic focus as the children react to fashion and a green old cow with surprising discernment.
Twelve year old Jack McGeehan led a billy goat into the Receiving Ward of a Philadelphia hospital. The goat suffered an abscess on a front leg that crippled it. Two doctors held the animal while a third opened and cleansed the abscess. The goat showed immediate relief and was led out by its grateful owner.
A columnist explains a stage magic trick using a blank paper and a lit match to reveal a pre drawn image. The method relies on a hidden drawing made with a salt peter solution and a non gloss paper to create a burnt design when the paper is illuminated.
A Detroit Free Press note explains using saltpeter or potassium nitrate to draw on paper with a flame. The method relies on oxygen-rich saltpeter to burn along drawn lines, linking the design to gunpowder chemistry. It warns to connect all lines and handle fire carefully to avoid accidents.
The Pitch lake of Trinidad covers 99 acres and yields asphalt with water veins, a nearly inexhaustible supply discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh. Other lakes include a salt crust lake on a Caspian peninsula, a rose colored lake near the Caspian with snowy salts, and a snow fed lake atop Volcano de Agua in Guatemala that collapsed after centuries of existence.
A humorous note from a free dispensary recounts a patient answering doctors with a chicken joke about his cough and chill. The item quotes the Philadelphia Telegraph and echoes a series of quips from newspapers on manners and bachelorhood.
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