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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1904
Page
2
In a grim house on a dingy street two doctors tend a wrecked man while his wife Mary confronts a past of infidelity and sacrifice. Dr Fairfield offers care and a possible future, but the patient’s death wish clashes with a forbidden, enduring love that survives the trials.
A short verse describing a child’s growth with humor about clothes growing too tight and a child named Godfrey. The narrator notes slow growth and compares it to another child, Tommy Pitt, amid school and play.
A mistletoe seed grows on an apple tree after a bird drops it, taking root in the branches and thriving until it bears white berries. It is described as sacred, with a legend of Baldur’s death by a mistletoe branch, as recounted by Longfellow and tied to a Christmas season sale.
A gray haired professor visits a king with a math puzzle to deduce birth month and age. After a sequence of operations, the result 1260 points to December as birth month and age shown by the last two digits. The king notes this as a clever method to learn ages kindly.
In Brooklyn on Hicks Street the dog Prince woke his 14 year old owner and barked through smoke as a hallway fire spread. Bridget McCarren and husband alerted neighbors as Freddie Otto led the family to safety. Prince returned to save the dogged hero, guided by loyalty and presence.
Instructions describe making a chrysanthemum from tissue paper with white and yellow shades, steps for cutting circles, notching edges, central holes, wire stem, and green tissue leaves. Also reports on a bear near Beaverhill Farm seizing a piglet and a girl rearing rabbit kits as a dairy project.
A study states North America has about 412 forest tree species distributed as 176 in the Atlantic region 106 in the Pacific region 10 common to both 46 in the Rocky Mountains and 74 in Florida tropical areas. Europe has 158 species and at least six North American species are also indigenous in Europe.
A child named Morris Mogilewaky explains to Miss Bailey that his father "has a tin lark with a beer cover and handle" used at the store, mishearing Shelley’s ode and prompting playful correction about a bird versus a beer tin.
An 19th century Cincinnati Commercial report details frauds in watch cases. Lead hidden inside hollow cases, spurious solid gold designs, and misused stamps mislead buyers. Dueber-Hampden Watch Co. of Canton names manufacturers in this exposure of deceptive practices.
Representative Tim Sullivan recalls a New York tale of a man out all night who, seeing an undertaker’s night bell, rang it and declared to the undertaker through the tube that he would prefer Pate as the last man he will do business with, illustrating drinking behavior.
A mixed ad and clipping page shows a John A. Salter Seed Co offer promising 10000 plants for 100 with seed, cabbage, carrot, celery, lettuce, onion and flowering bundles, plus 16¢ postage. Other items promote a historic Nashville Chattanooga route for Florida trips and train services, with rates to New Orleans and Mobile. Also includes brief quotes and medicine ad for Lazative Bromo Quinine tablets.
Ina Hassett of Silver Lake Massachusetts says after four years of severe inflammation and ulcers she nearly died. She used Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for five months, improved from misery to health, and urges other sick women to try it.
A Philadelphia Telegraph fragment recounts how a nervous groom requested bells organ and grandeur for his wedding. The ceremony ended with the groom delaying departure as the bishop pressed on, prompting laughter from the congregation.
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