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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1905
Page
8
A dramatic reading follows David Leighan’s confession and the showdown over Mary’s marriage. George plans emigration after foreclosure while confronting Uncle Daniel’s hard bargains. David exposes a secret pact affecting Mary and George, driving a tense, morally charged resolution in Challacombe.
The aging Mikhail Potemkin Pobedonostzeff, over eighty and bedridden, remains a staunch foe of reforms in Russia. He loyal to autocracy and orthodoxy, told Senator Beveridge Russia is a world, despised free press, and blames the Emperor for weakness. His death thoughts fear ruin for church and state.
A historical note discusses pencil production in the United States and abroad. It cites a yearly domestic usage of about 160 million pencils, with nine tenths produced at home and factories employing over 2,000 workers and paying roughly $700,000 in wages annually. American output valued at about $2,000,000 uses Virginia cedar, while graphite is imported from Mexico, Bohemia, Ceylon, and Siberia with preparation centered in Germany.
In Swampherst Subbubs cites a booming town while Citlman recalls traveling salesmen, a drug salesman and funeral supplies. A humorous note mentions Rain-in-the-Face adopting the hog Latin Aquamugga after government changes Indian nomenclature.
The United Kingdom population was 43 210 778 with England and Wales at 4 152 977 Scotland 4 676 603 and Ireland 4 800 208. The text then shifts to a reflection: whoever thinks he knows it all imagines there isn’t much worth knowing. True love is founded on the rock of reverence.
Peter Buel Porter left Congress to serve on the battlefield during the war of 1812. He commanded volunteers at Chippewa Lundy’s Lane and Fort Erie, earning praise for gallantry and daring. After hostilities, he declined a general’s post and returned to Congress, continuing a life marked by steadfast patriotism.
Rain-In-The-Face one of the Custer massacre leaders and rumored to have killed General Custer died recently at Standing Rock at age 62. A Sioux chief born in 1843, he fought US troops in the mid 1870s, later served in Indian police, and remained unreconciled to whites. He escaped after arrest for murder, joined Sitting Bull, and fought at Little Big Horn where his bravery was noted though claims of personally killing Custer are debated.
The tale notes Rain-in-the-Face had several wives, none endured happiness. His final wife was found with a rope and a cut throat, and many suspected murder though no legal proof existed.
Lona Dare a 14 year old Walkerton girl nets about 50 dollars per acre from farming and pickle contracting after finishing eighth grade. She plows, weeds, and cultivates five acres of corn with her grandfather s shovel plow, driving from diploma to dirt in record time. Her parents credit natural inclination for farming and horse riding talent as she contracts two acres of pickles and tends potatoes and corn this year.
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