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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1905
Page
2
A veteran vaudeville raconteur recalls a mesmerism scheme that morphed into real danger. Judith Stokes and her handler Ze noba Zenobia charmed audiences, exposed a challenging skeptic, and vanished with a wealthy patron after a season of sensational performances and hush money.
In a tense chapter fragment, Judith Stokes and her father resemble Rev Porter and daughter as Mr Montgomery shares a startling tale. Josiah reacts with fevered urgency to locate Bill Stokes, while the narrator weighs revealing the link to his former master. The chapter ends with a dramatic confession looming.
Lightning rods have fallen from favor yet still provide limited protection when well designed and maintained. Weather Bureau guidance from Professor W. S. Franklin covers grounding, rod design, and straight grounding paths. A hotel anecdote illustrates rods diverting lightning safely into a lake rather than striking the building.
The article advises staying youthful by avoiding earthy salts in food, favoring fruit and distilled water with diluted phosphoric acid, and notes other health tips. It also covers a fit treatment, a new anaesthetic, and a lockjaw remedy using ashes and foot soaking.
An Erie man who refused society leadership invited to dinner despite not wanting to be a Chesterfield figure. He faked illness to his wife who insisted he join. After the second course he admits fatigue and jokes he must go home to feed the pigs.
A list of student created definitions with humorous misreadings and wordplay. Entries include Papal Bull as a sacred cow joke about popery and Coin of vantage as usury and a valuable coin. Paradox is described as heavenly story or a paradoxical poem, with Apocryphal linked to medical matters and Prevaricate to thinking before speaking.
The Ohio Northwestern gang of arsonists operated from 1874 to 1899 across Williams Fulton and Lucas counties and into Indiana and Michigan. Fifteen to twenty members used insurance fraud to burn properties for 10 to 100 dollars, totaling about 1.5 million in losses. Over 40 indictments followed, 18 jailed, others fled. two members died by their own hand, one became a state’s evidence witness.
The piece recalls President Buchanan era disarray in Washington as Dix asserts loyalty with a strict anti secession stance. It describes a romantic vision of Union resolve sparked by Dix’s order to shoot if the flag is hauled down and the nation’s drift toward Civil War. It also recounts a Romanian winter ceremony with religious blessing of waters and straw for horses.
The article notes the annual blessing of the waters, a quaint ceremony in early year. It highlights widespread observance in Roumania Russia and Bulgaria with large preparations the day before and a procession from church to the quay.
A young woman enters a New York restaurant for lunch and claims she forgot her purse to avoid paying. The generous proprietor insists she eat now and pay tomorrow, but she leaves hiding her purse and laments the lie that earned her this punishment.
A Columbia College professor recalls Luther burning the papal bull, contrasting his serious act with a student’s notebook quip that Luther “gives a vaudeville show, accompanied by fireworks.” The piece ends with a farmer’s phrase for remodeling a building: it has been worked over.
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