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Newspaper
Alpine Avalanche
Location
Alpine, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1900
Page
6
Dr. C H Miller of Brockton Massachusetts reports remarkable tuberculosis cures by sleeping outdoors. He claims tepid air and dew pose no harm, citing patients who gained weight and recovered after months of outdoor sleeping with minimal bedding and simple diets. The method includes baths, open air days, and records of indoor time to track progress.
Two brief odd exchanges describe a strange Cochin peering through a fence while a Raval demonstration unfolds. The dialogue hints at playful banter and curious onlookers near a water trough in a rural setting.
The piece reviews New Zealand’s shift from a 九strike history to a system of compulsory arbitration. It credits Minister William Pember Reeves for pushing labor law reforms starting in 1892 and notes the law’s success after five years with broad approval and few dissenting amendments.
At a Berlin banquet, Bismarck recalls offering cigars to General Moltke during Koniggratz. Moltke, calm and focused on the battle, picked the good cigar from a case with two. Bismarck says he smoked the bad one after and never enjoyed a smoke more.
The Erie canal boosted New York into an empire state role and spurred Northwest development. Toll revenues far exceed canal costs, totaling about 400 million dollars paid to New York State. Freight through the canal funded urban growth from New York to Buffalo and supported a prosperous agricultural region.
The Iron Clad Warrior, Britain's first ironclad launched in 1860, is removed from active service. Displacing 9210 tons with 4.5 inch armor and 20 muzzle loading guns, she powered by engines of 5300 hp reaching 14. knots. Questioning remains if other relics still appear on the effective list.
Maud and Ethel joke about Gladys engagement to Softleigh describing him as an apology for a man and discussing how she had to accept him in a light hearted dialogue.
The gilded house mace with an eagle top, used to keep order, sparked a humorous moment when Col Ike Hill, sergeant at arms, faced a boisterous member. He waved the symbol and threatened, I will peck you if you do not sit right down, provoking laughter among officials.
Miss Katherine J. Dugan, possibly the world’s only blind choir leader, directs St. Aloysius church in St Johnsbury Vermont. Educated at Perkins Institution Boston she graduated 1898 and completed post graduate work in 1899 using raised notation and tactile conducting to guide her singers.
A Columbus visitor asked a lower Stade class pupil for the axis of the earth. The pupil spoke of an imaginary line from pole to pole, and when asked if a bonnet could be hung on it, replied yes an imaginary bonnet, much to the examiner’s satisfaction.
The ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder as a cure for swollen smarting burning and sweating feet corns and bunions. It urges shaking it into shoes and notes 25 cents at druggists and shoe stores with a free sample available by mail from Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy New York.
The Philadelphia board of health treats membranous croup as diphtheria and requires physicians to report and record all membranous croup cases under diphtheria for surveillance and statistics.
A Tuskegee Alabama parent reports that after their child's bowels bled and other prescriptions failed, Teerina Teething Powders relieved the illness and the child is now doing well.
A witty remark notes that women lack conscience as they repeatedly pose in each other’s clothes for photos. The comment reflects playful social commentary on fashion trends and self image.
It requires no experience to dye with Putnam Faceless Dyes. Simply boil your goods in the dye solution for quick colors and easy results.
A woman, angered at her husband, uses affectionate kissing as a weapon to wound his feelings and break his heart, a pattern noted in the tale.
Miss Alice Colborn of Hopedale announces her engagement to Baron Charles de Halpert an attache of the Russian legation at Rome. She is a niece of Ambassador Draper and has moved in Italy’s diplomatic circle with wit and foreign language skill. Baron de Halpert, a Baltic Russian noble, is linked to Prince Cantacuzene and attended the Cantacuzene Grant wedding at Newport last summer.
A deaf woman plaintiff in a Durham Assizes case could not understand the proceedings. The judge urged a compromise. The lawyer shouted for her view, and she answered with a smile that she would take a little warm ale if it would not inconvenience his lordship.
King Oscar of Sweden is described as a musical monarch who improvises for hours on the piano and organ and is a great lover of glee singing.
Emperor Kruger and his marriages produced a large progeny. From his first marriage to Sturdy Dom Paul there was one child who died young. With his second wife he fathered sixteen children. His grandchildren total 104.
The derangements of the female system that breed trouble and weariness do not cure. Uterine and ovarian troubles kidney troubles ulcerations tumors unusual discharges back aches and painful periods are the illnesses that cling to health and happiness and spoil disposition.
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