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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1903
Page
7
A playful Cassell's Little Folks vignette shows a six year old boy sobbing because he believed he was eight after his mother told him the truth. The humor-tinged dialogue features his elder brother and a narrator noting the bemused, gentle family scene.
A brief note describes a simple illusion where a six inch strip of paper is lit at the upper end and held between the thumb and index finger. The performer offers the strip to a willing participant who grips it as the trick unfolds.
A prank using a 12 inch paper strip ends with the participant burning his hand as the strip springs back. The note cites a Chicago Tribune description. The tale connects to a mixed collection of anecdotes including a ghostly scare at home and a pet raccoon versus bald eagle incident from New Jersey.
A woman recalls a Paris meeting with a highly trained monkey from Japan that bowingly greeted her, presented a passport paper, brushed dust from her dress, ate politely with knife and fork, and performed tasks like threading a needle and polishing shoes. The creature listened intently, never exhibited, and died young of pneumonia.
A magazine note describes a water trick using eight matches arranged as a star with a wand that has sugar and soap tips to pull matches together or push them apart. Sugar tips draw water to crowd matches. soap tips melt, fat on water pushes them away. A motivational aside states on the sun a one pound mass weighs 2734 pounds.
A historical feature describes Betsy Ross voting for a five pointed star and outlines a paper folding method to craft the star with one snip of scissors. It details proportions, folding steps, and trimming to produce a balanced star, noting Betsy Ross as Washington's seamstress and the flag’s early English materials.
The article discusses color perception as a widespread phenomenon, noting color blindness is more common than once believed. It cites color misperception in humans and animals, describes how color camouflage works, and explains afterimages. It ends with a brief anecdote about a cow at a water works pumping station coping with floodwaters and drinking.
Chekib Bey Turkish minister to Washington attends the Medjidia launch in Philadelphia. He recalls giving beggars credit here and amid the luncheon exchanges laughs at the idea of his lenient generosity. A separate anecdote recalls a visit to an insane asylum where a clock misread time provoking a quip from a young Irish doorkeeper.
Rev. Jos Pope publishes a German farmer George Jerer tale of rheumatic relief from Dodd's Kidney Pills after failed treatments. Jerer reports recovery, improvement in walking, hand contraction eased, following treatment and six boxes. The note appears amid other items including travel ads, quotes, and remedies noted by the era.
A St Paul department store saleswoman Nellie Curtain credits Peruna with easing daily mucus loss and body aches. Congressman Mark H Dunnell also endorses Peruna as a tonic and cure for catarrh. Readers are urged to write Dr Hartman for free guidance at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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