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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1897
Page
3
A nostalgic verse recalls childhood nights through lattice moonlight with dreams washing away griefs. The speaker longs for the peace felt in youth as the ponded beams and memories drift like a tide back to a simpler era. The lines echo a longing for vanished innocence and calm.
Floyd Walton and Kate Walton reunite after war and hardship. Esther, Genevieve Sweet, and Lambert confront late regrets as veterans faced with promotion cuts. Lambert wins Kate, embraces life with the army while old comrades confront misfortune in a consolidating service.
A London Figaro vignette recalls a dinner banter where an Englishman questions a 24 foot tiger tale and a Scotchman boasts landing a two acre skate with six friends. The English host demands an apology, the Scot refuses, and jokes about trimming both feats lead to a concession offer.
An editorial meditates on why brilliant workers and teachers rise and leave, noting their lasting wealth of knowledge and the mystery of their brief, impactful careers. The piece laments the untimely passage from labor to reward and mourns their enduring absence.
A husband, a young lawyer, debates his strategy in a murder case. He questions whether to argue the deceased was killed by another man or to maintain the possibility that the person is still alive.
A collage of humorous quotes from Puck Detroit Journal Tit Bits Indianapolis Journal and Chicago Evening Post features witty exchanges about husbands wives patriotism patience and stage life with a closing quip on a child’s missing soul from the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegram.
A frontier report details opium and small-item smuggling concealing goods in bicycle frame tubing. Operators reportedly use routes Crystal City to Woodbridge and Hannah, with hundreds of pounds of opium moved monthly. Previous cattle-smuggling cases yielded $25,000. Manitoba officials and Canadian rail lines benefited from lax duties.
A dialogue features a young woman and Arthur debating rest versus bustle. He quips about preferring Europe to Cathay while she admits unfamiliarity with Cathay, suspecting it might be a fancy bicycle brand. The exchange hints at witty social banter and travel notions.
An old man berates his son for gambling at poker and forbids it, declaring such immoral gain wrong. He then hurries to his office to instruct his broker to buy heavily in wheat, sensing a price rise within 25 hours. New York Journal reports.
A Chicago dry goods clerk falls for a customer admiring lace remnants in the department. The exchange over lace quality ends with the clerk transferred after the manager resolves the fabric misrepresentation.
A New York house once famed for a canopied ceiling painted by an Italian artist faded from fashion as tenement dwellers moved in. Whitewash blotted out the stars, ending the luminous ceiling's dreamlike night. A telegram from Sonstertiimbleays mentions the sultan seeking more time.
An advertisement claims Hood's Sarsaparilla cures nervous trouble scrofula rheumatism dyspepsia and catarrh by blood purification. It pledges to purify the blood tone the system increase appetite and provide refreshing results if given a chance.
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