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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1905
Page
6
Fragment from a London Daily News feature and accompanying fiction recounts a narrator's epiphany on beauty and immortality, a boy named Marley, a kindly old man called Mr Dog Grubbs, and a mother and child whose lives intertwine as the man contemplates adopting the child. The scene shifts between lyrical musings and domestic dialogue about names, guardianship, and a Philippine assignment.
An old man named Grubbs, once feared for his harsh manners, forms a fragile bond with a sickly boy through a window face he longs to see. He befriends the boy via a kind gesture to the mother, revealing a gentler side as he becomes known as "the dog" for his protective, subdued care.
Judge Dickson recalls a Bisbee church incident told to a Brooklyn Eagle reporter. He finds Rev Banks cooking cottontail on a four hole stove in a kitchen behind the church study. The judge jokes about sharing the meal and the pastor’s horse roaming the range while he preaches.
Dr. Zugertort, famed chess player, pondered a new opening in the street and was halted by a policeman who urged him to move. He replied without lifting his gaze that it was the officer’s move. The scene captures the distracted genius in a humorous street moment.
In a briefexchange the two discuss who should answer, with paps directing to the mother and the mother directing to the inquirer, then to the commercial agencies. The fragment hints at social navigation and referral culture without a clear resolution.
A method described by an American Machinist correspondent uses a platform scale where adding a pound on the beam balances 100 pounds on the platform. To weigh a letter, place it on the pendant, add material to raise the beam, then divide the balance by 100 to find the letter’s weight.
The article explains balancing weights on a platform scale using ratios and simple division. It shows examples converting pounds to ounces and then to metric units such as grams and milligrams, noting how to deduce unknown ratios by weighing known weights. It also illustrates mental calculation between denominations.
The article describes Papuan dress and ornaments in New Guinea. It notes necklaces and armlets of cord beads brass wire teeth shells seeds and shell anklets and bone or bone and stick earrings. Men wear elaborate hair styles and feathers while women cut hair short and faces are tattooed or scarred with clay and coal patterns.
A record of the creation of the world’s largest knife, crafted in the United States at a cost of several thousand dollars. The note hints that its conceptual scale may be hard to grasp from a printed description alone.
A diagram depicts a six foot man wielding a knife whose blade is five times the height of the man. The piece notes the manufacture of this giant knife was under sale act to prove what American individual entities.
A Cincinnati Commercial Tribune inspired party activity uses a pencil, cork, knitting needle, and a pasteboard triangle on a glass of water. Participants balance matches on the board to weigh surface tension, noting the cork remains trapped despite heavy load.
Correspondents describe how suspending a wood stick in a barrel of water during freezing can relieve pressure and reduce cask breakage. Water expands as it freezes, forming an egg shaped ice chamber with top thickening, sometimes lifting ice and allowing water to escape, reducing rupture risk. A timber piece two to three feet long helps distribute pressure and may prevent cracking.
A dated letter from 1897 details long standing illnesses in a wife and husband, both reportedly cured by Peruna after following Dr Hartman’s guidance. The testimonial mentions chronic constipation, menopause, rheumatism, and catarrh, plus a remark that Peruna helps sleep and health in old age.
A pasted collage of odd phrases and ads includes instruction-like wordplay, railway fare notices for the Nickel Plate Road, LaSalle Street Station departures, and an agent address in Chicago. It also features early 20th century product ads for Foot-Ease, a humorous quip from the Baltimore American, and a stray New York Times fragment.
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