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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1906
Page
3
The article extols diaphoretics and ginger tea as gentle sweats and details a hot infusion recipe. It then explains poultice preparation using flax seed, slippery elm, corn meal, oats, and herbs, with tips on layering, heat retention, using cheesecloth, and applying medicated poultice bags for various ailments.
A simple pan cloth method is described: pour boiling water over a cloth just enough to heat it without soaking. Let heat diffuse briefly, wring out, and apply to the affected area. The process provides prompt pain relief and begins recovery.
An article describes how nations are represented by animals in art and stamps. The United States is shown with an American eagle, Germany with a military helmeted eagle, Russia by a bear with a cap, France by a gallinaceous cock, Canada by a beaver with a maple leaf, and other nations by various creatures including a Dutch stork and a Congo State elephant.
A brief exchange questions how well a young woman is known to the speaker with a playful response about a calling acquaintance. The Cleveland Leader context suggests a light feature or gossip item centered on familiar social chatter and a witty remark.
An observant writer in the St. Louis Globe Democrat details the mockingbird steps and aerial poetry. It notes his elegant, buoyant bounds, rapid wing opens, and peculiar ground routine, with courtship and feeding described in vivid, precise terms.
A bus of 13 arrived at a Jacksonville jail and pleaded for a fellow boy’s release on vagrancy charges. The sentencing judge, moved by the display of loyalty, ordered the youth’s release. Detroit Free Press reports the touching act.
The Order of Carabao, founded in Manila over five years ago, drew members in Washington at its annual dinner. The group honors U S military service in the Philippines from 1898 to 1902 and lists prominent officers across Manila, Washington, San Francisco, San Antonio, Fort Monro, and St. Louis with a West Point corral planned.
A novel munition described as a cigar shaped bronze projectile nickel cased is fired from French infantry rifles. It reportedly spins at 3600 revolutions per second and at 300 yards can pierce the combined bulk of six men lined up.
Isaac Litteton of the One hundred sixteenth Gale infantry shares a popular Civil War tale about a gray mule and a guerrilla fight. Sheridan and Phil Sheridan exchange greetings, while the unit repeats the quip How are you Ike to many riders and staff. The tale spreads through the division until an official order ends the chant.
A pocketknife hidden in a hollow tree near Camden Tennessee is tied to the 1860s tale of Couriee Paratt a guerrilla captured by federal troops Col Lowe's regiment. Paratt was killed when a loyal soldier attempted to free him and the tree story ended with later fatal Union casualty near Danville.
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