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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1902
Page
6
Poem reflects on night at sea with the moon and waves, contemplating death and faith. The speaker leaves the city, gazes at distant lights, and finds reassurance in God and a guiding pilot toward a homeland.
A haunted log schoolhouse near Minton unsettles the town for weeks with lights and a white figure from the forked oak. Zachariah Hinser, guided by his greedy habits, encounters the specter who accuses him of denying his daughter charity happiness and threatens his future. In a twist, Jim Hinser toys with a ghost hoax using his grandfather’s props, while Charity marries George Burton and Grisly legends fade into a local tale.
The London Hospital notes lace making by girls in a cripples home and industrial school, finding pupils quick to learn and pleased with the task. Elsewhere, the article cites 1901 footwear exports at 5.5 million dollars, compares German Wonder yarn to cotton yarn, and discusses the origins of the dancing “waltzing mice” as due to confinement rather than disease. It also covers sleep study by the ethiometer, and iron ore production in France with three main districts: northeast Moselle, Pyrenees, and Normandy.
Sir J Crichton Browne M D, president of the medical section of the international congress for the welfare and protection of children, reports that about thirty percent of Great Britain is underfed. He cites rural Scotland and Dundee factory towns where undernourishment and stunting plague both boys and girls, prompting parliamentary debate and concern over national fitness.
Six years ago wheelmen held political sway, influenced road policy, and drew crowds as races became major events. The boom fed clubhouses and organized clubs, but it collapsed abruptly, leaving concerns about the sport’s future and the fate of its promoters amid changing times.
The article explains a $1,250 appropriation for a new great seal of the United States, the fourth since 1782. It details past seals, their designers, usage changes, and notes the seal’s expected shorter lifespan due to increasing official paperwork. It also recounts historic practices for affixing the seal and its modern ceremonial roles.
A collection of humorous clippings from multiple papers. Jests on marriage offers, modest dowries, rural feasts, polo strokes, forgiving fathers, music shops, and a man lamenting three daughters while banjos and love songs echo under three windows.
King Edward orders no delay in pardons for military offenders facing early release as South Africa veterans return home. War office and board of trade fear a labor-market shock from about 08000 reservists militia yeomanry and volunteers reentering civilian life and seek employer appeals to prevent displacements. Also notes a Tennessee walnut stump boom with high prices as old timber gains value for veneering and fine furniture.
A collage of fragments cites Lydia E. Pinkham's remedy and Burdock Blood Bitters with assorted quotations and anecdotes from various papers. It mentions Philadelphia and New York origins, casual references to health claims, and several brief, unrelated quips about health products and social scenes.
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