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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1901
Page
2
A fragment from The Williston Graphic echoes a poem urging inner openness and spiritual welcome. The piece invokes sunshine, rain transformed to gold, and the heart’s door as a path to gentler thoughts, grace, and kinship.
Cordelia Hackett plans a quiet life mending fences and tending family. Tom Rogers returns from the West, reveals a mistaken engagement rumor about Ed Purcell, and asks Cordelia to join him. She agrees, heights of emotion in a small town reunion amid memory and vows. The piece shifts to a brief note about Slatin Pasha and a light grace note about a gardener’s testimonial.
W. B Harwood recounts a frontier family in the Northwest who faced starvation after a long winter. Amid severed supplies and isolation an Indian raid left wheat mixed with broken glass, yet the family gathered around a large table amid lighthearted storytelling to endure the peril.
Two wilde animals in a Union depot baggage-room box fought after hours of standoff. The larger animal spilled water, threatened the smaller, and made the scene tense until evening when the bigger cat launched an attack, leaving the outcome unclear in the fragment.
A fragment from a wartime or hardship report describes MISS RUTH HANNA in a living room carefully picking glass from wheat to save kernels for food. Flour was exhausted and families boiled wheat to eat without grinding as Holies intervened to avert catastrophe. The scene underscores scarce supplies and improvised survival.
A collage of 19th century notes describes timber flumes in British Columbia fed by mountain torrents used by lumber crews to travel downstream rapidly. It mentions advertising boards in Switzerland and Mont Blanc, asphalt mysteries, a planned Arctic tunnel road to the north pole, and Norways Christiania steam kitchen serving nine cent meals, all reflecting era curiosities and wildly varied topics.
An observed tale recalls a striking mountain widow in the upper Cumberland area. The woman, widowed after a saw log accident, hosts a visitor, shares simple talk, and reflects on local curiosity about her life and choice. Another brief note reports Wisconsin dairy inspectors exposing viscogen, a sugar lime water adulterant, used to feign richness in milk and cream.
A fragment from Ladies World and New York items describes making lemon jelly with gelatin and egg whites, folding to light texture, serving in glass dishes, plus notes on fashionable dance slang and a fruit stew with currants and cider baked under a crust.
A Chicago Record Herald summary recalls the Greely expedition’s 1883 84 arctic ordeal at Cape Sabine 83 24 minutes north 74 west. It notes seven survivors of 25 after starvation cold and retreat, and the dramatic June 22 rescue by Commander Schley salvaging the remainder.
The Kansas City fire department features John, a playful and intelligent horse who entertains crowds with hose play. Attendants predict he may one day hitch to an engine and wield water to fight fires. During a performance he drank from the hose and caused a lively splash, later restrained to low pressure.
Readable passages describe scorpions in Mexico as abundant in walls and clothing, with bites dangerous especially at midday. It notes yellow scorpions are more venomous, scenes of fights among many scorpions, and remedies like brandy ammonia and cupping tools. Also mentions a Magellan Straits post office in a keg chained to rocks, guarded by navies, with ships exchanging fetters.
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