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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
2
The verse recalls elegant fashion of James Monroe’s presidency, praising purity and courtesy. It notes dames and gentry in lace and brocade at a ball, comparing then and now with enduring charity and noble conduct, as quoted from Roy Farrell Greene in Youth's Companion.
In a vast Parisian residence the yellow salon once echoed with fashion and romance Now a countess and her ward face a vanished ardor After a concealed affair a household hints at scandal and decline An invasion of servants restores the room’s faded grandeur then fades back into aristocratic stillness.
In the yellow salon, an American girl challenges aristocratic schemes as Dorothy declares she will leave with her mother the moment she reveals she will not marry the count. She later rejects Alixe’s betrothal and guides Dorothy to tell the countess the truth, ending in Dorothy’s marriage to Jack and an exotic Japanese dragon as a gift.
A bar tale spans many cocktails with a bartender claiming no limit to varieties after a 40 day streak and a Paris Academy test reports rhythmical tongue twitching aiding resuscitation from drowning. A Roman Forum find of 370 gold coins of Emperor Anthemius adds ancient intrigue. Plus a brief Amended Statement moment and a comic exchange about belief in love.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from multiple papers. Jokes range from domestic banter to social observations about class, marriage, and reputation, with punning dialogue about money, dress, and relationships.
The First National Bank, the west’s largest banking institution, employs over 250 clerks whose desks fill the main floor and surrounding balconies. Organized in 1868, its history includes a Clerks Savings Association with 6 percent interest and a pension system funded by small salary deductions, augmented by a $10 gift from retiring president Nickerson. Clerks share daily lunches in the basement to boost efficiency and health, while the bank’s large capital and surplus secure depositors against loss.
John Gilmer Speed argues in Ainslee's that southern cotton spinning will not threaten New England. He notes 100,000,000 world spindles with 17,570,000 in the United States and 2,600,000 in the South. England and Europe still dominate world production, and New England remains near cotton fields, suggesting continued prosperity rather than peril.
Mrs Squills wakes Mr Squills claiming burglars are downstairs. He doubts it. she insists, then shouts in alarm. The brief exchange ends with a tense claim of intruders amid a sleepy scene from Weekly.
A jumble of notes reports Jove supplying two thirds of quinine, elephant feeding costs at $30 weekly, Prussia appointing female factory inspectors, and armies with 17 000 ton capacity. Other items note railroads in China funded by American capital, German and British trade balances, and Vienna’s new requirements for policemen to swim. The clippings idly cover pensions, tanning bark, pen cases, and stamp-collecting congressmen.
The writer John Cummings of Wetaskiwin Alberta recounts a move from Farmington Washington to northern Alberta. He describes building a home and stables, prairie winters, doubled farms and herds, and strong prospects for crops and prices, noting families thrived and debt decreased.
Fragments describe trade with China and competition, patent remedies like Hastetter's Stomach Bitchers, playful barbershop quips, poetry parodies, seed company catalogs, jokes about unlucky numbers, pneumonia cures, catarrh rewards, and a Eureka Springs Crescent Hotel notice for March 1900 with Frisco Line travel details.
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