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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
2
Fragmentary poem lines describe chickadees nesting in a tree and a scene involving a brownie on stilts and various misrendered animal names. The text presents playful imagery without a clear narrative or complete facts.
Arthur Reynolds the artist journeys through the Sierra passes with a guide seeking health and inspiration. A surprise reveals a snow crowned summit and a church in a fir grove. Edith, a precocious child, influences her father's views as love your enemies guides their faith and future.
TheTrue Thomas Jefferson recounts a letter from a 14 year old Jefferson describing the weight of sole responsibility and the lure of bad company. He recalls early friendships with high standing figures and his father’s injunctions to pursue study and self improvement.
A noted English bishop, famed for dignity, sat while a painter worked. After an hour of silence, the bishop asked for progress. The artist, unfazed, replied by motioning the bishop to move his head and shut his mouth, then said he wished to take off a little of the cheek, provoking the bishop’s irritation. A Chicago anecdote notes the phrase about titled persons versus commoners in Russia.
Prof Edward Dowden argues the Romantic Revival shaped the twentieth century through imagination and liberty. He traces Wordsworth and Scott as pivotal to uniting naturalism with spirituality, and notes Byron’s failure to envision a higher moral freedom, leaving a lasting sense of lost power upon his death.
A letter-rag collection recounts a New York Chinatown teapot episode where Won Soo Won quotes 35 cents then 65 cents to a young man and his date, repeating “sixty-five cents” as the price. The tale blends stock stereotypes with a quip about advanced woman movement and a joke about Timson-Van Peffer’s six months to live.
A collage of comic snippets and witty exchanges from early 20th century papers. Jokes about wives music, streetcars, and daily urban life appear alongside quips about public figures and political sentiments.
A retrospective piece traces Richard Cromwell’s brief reign in 1658 to his later exile, poverty, and fragile family disputes at Hursley and Westminster, recounting Mrs Pengelly keeping his accounts and his final death in 1712, along with a Paris of public service notes and oddities from Rome and Germany.
An account of the Adirondack region porcupine describing its appearance and fierce tail defense. It notes quill injuries to dogs, the animal’s habit of turning tail, and how predators like wolves lynxes and panthers may kill it by flipping it over to access its bare underbelly.
A persistent young man with a manuscript asks a manager where he sees his play set. The manager advised a particular setting, and the youth says he is following that guidance, joking about whether the scene is laid in the infernal regions.
A testimonial from Mrs Louise Gibson of Chicago credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing kidney trouble backache and headaches after taking six bottles and accompanying pills. The notice urges confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts and asserts widespread success in female disorders.
A mosaic of curiosities spans royalty, science, travel, and politics. European royals are closely related, while elephants bear heavy loads. Death rates rise modestly, duties curb tea, rail expansion flares, and church union rumors surface. Letters misdirected in London and new transit plans surface in Manila. Afghanistan blocks missionaries. a Jahore sultan decorates with diamonds. Crimean War histories intrigue King Edward. Mohammedan devotion grows in India under British rule. Rome hosts the vast cemetery. Berlin notes a new periodical on revived heathenism. Ether anesthesia marks a milestone. native Hawaiians seek seafaring life. Japanese presence remains small.
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