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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1902
Page
7
The excerpt describes a trolley car conductor’s duties and demeanor, detailing how he must manage passengers, pennies, and etiquette with wit and restraint. It then shifts to gypsy beliefs about mountains as clouds, mist, and heaven paths, noting thunderbolts as lucky stones when carried.
St Swithin was buried in the open churchyard as requested by him and thought no vault could shelter him better. Upon canonization monks of Winchester planned a choir burial move on July 5 but heavy rain for forty days halted the translation. They then built a chapel over the grave where many miracles are said to have occurred.
A district visitor questions a house keeper about a sick woman on the first floor. The keeper explains she is barely conscious between fits and will not last long. The visitor laments the sorrow and jokes about recalling the laundress who once did cheap work.
A garbled passage describes a quarrel over housekeeping and delaying tasks. A husband complains about hanging a clock in a dining room while his wife asks why a plumber isn’t sent, revealing tension in a disrupted domestic scene.
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls a balky horse that refused to move until a brutal, dangerous method was used. The owner tied the horse to a wagon wheel, left it, and waited as a freight train loomed. The beast rolled, crashed, and survived, later behaving well for years after a single harsh lesson.
Instructions describe removing dull smoky appearances on pianos using tepid water and Castile soap with a fine sponge, drying with a chamois skin, and applying a linseed oil polish mixed with alcohol and vinegar in small amounts. It also covers removing bruises with pumice and cleaning keys with a 1:1 alcohol and water solution.
A quoted exchange reveals two lovers, mad at wasted effort, noting how hard they worked to win each other. They admit engagement after confessing mutual schemes to obtain the other, and reflect on the folly of their pursuits. The dialogue hints at shared folly and future plans.
Boracic acid occurs with volcanic gases and salts near active or extinct volcanoes worldwide. Borax figures in glassmaking pottery glazing and medicine for external sores and ulcers as an antiseptic. In Sweden it is used to preserve meat and mills, claimed to have no unpleasant effects.
A man of perception observes advertising’s growth into business lifeblood. He asserts advertising does more than draw trade. it creates new customers and generates demand for new or neglected products. It is a force essential for striking success.
Letters praise a pill for stomach relief and liver regulation noting easy use and pleasant effect. The seller is Ori Gray & Co. A stray sentence claims a girl once doubts her photograph resembles her.
A London Tit-Bits excerpt recounts a novelist altering a doomed heroine’s end to please a nobleman whose ill daughter’s life hinges on fiction. It also notes Elizabethan fashion with hats described by Kingsley and Scott, citing Oxenham and Leigh in vivid detail.
An observed gulls' tactic at Tacoma shows a clever feeding ploy. A gray leader gull perched near water and issued calls to guide others onto a sunken log. The group tipped the log, exposing barnacles as they gathered the food one by one.
A historical report describes a rigid diamond cutting operation where each worker must account for stones on arrival and at night. The system, designed to deter theft, creates a vigilant environment as unfinished stones are locked away, yet the danger of internal pilferage remains high if a dishonest worker tries to misappropriate stones.
A rescued missionary, still weak on a cot, asks her rescuers for a fashion paper, saying she has not had one for six months. The band of rescuers surrounded her, visibly relieved, as she whispered her request.
A fragmented note recalls a woman’s whispered concern that she may be deemed a heedless wife when she wakes her husband in the night to ask for comfort. The tale touches on rash passions and the awakening of understanding between spouses.
A Pearson's Weekly excerpt recalls a town night bank robbery and a man wrongly accused by circumstantial proof. Alleged sightings at a bank and hotel, insomnia claims, and a moonlit balcony romance lead to a dismissal, illustrating how circumstantial evidence misleads jurors and witnesses alike.
The article surveys diverse beauty customs across cultures. Arabian women stain fingers and toes, Persia uses a black eye outline with ornamentation, Japanese gild teeth, Indian women color lips and dye tooth pearls black, and Hottentot women paint the body in red and black compartments.
The article notes Spurgeon’s dramatic excess in sermons with an anecdote from Haweis. A preacher in the middle of a talk bets with Paul’s words and a half crown on the Bible, then reads “Through Christ that strengtheneth me” and withdraws the bet, declaring he is beaten by the terms.
The article discusses historical sumptuary laws governing hair length. Men could not wear hair to shoulder length and women were restricted from loose plaits. Long hair marked freedom for maidens, while slaves had it cut short. Free-born women likely confined hair by custom rather than official edicts.
The article notes that most old Chinese bridges barely fit two mounted men with rails on both sides for safety. It suggests early missionary accounts, which described suspension bridges, inspired later Western looting of this bridge-building method.
The Tinto River in Spain has unique properties. It petrifies the sand of its bed and causes stones that fall into the stream to fuse with others after months, forming a single stone. Fish cannot live in its waters.
The passage claims Prickly Ash Bisters cleanse bowels and boost appetite while Hoans Pharmacy promotes these products as improving digestion and vigor. It contrasts dealers informing customers with men who never advance beyond compliments.
A Devonshire farmer stops a weary vicar at his gate on a cold Sunday, offers cider, but the parson declines citing dinner hour. The farmer recalls a doctor’s remark that the vicar is terribly dry this morning, prompting humorous misunderstanding.
A reflective piece on Japanese calm and simplicity, noting austere interiors, minimal possessions, lean housekeeping, and adaptable rooms that can open to balconies or verandas. It suggests Westerners could learn from Japan despite some cautions about superficial changes.
A mother teaches her daughter to avoid pressuring guests for more food, but a dinner scene reveals the pitfall when the daughter asks Mr X if he will have oysters and the mother gasps asking why he has not yet been served. The guest has already been helped three times, highlighting social missteps.
A curious weather phenomenon described in the United States where rain falls from clouds but evaporates before reaching the ground. In the Colorado desert regions with shade temperatures around 128 degrees Fahrenheit, heavy downpours occur yet no water touches the earth.
A rule states that the distance in miles to see an object on earth equals the square root of 1.5 times the observer’s height in feet above sea level, adjusted for atmospheric refraction. For 100 miles visibility, an observer at 6007 feet yields the needed distance, useful to ocean travelers estimating a ship’s distance.
A pearl fisher near Prairie du Chien discovered a spherical pearl weighing 121 grains with a diameter of three quarters of an inch. Valued at $10,000, the artifact is described as the largest perfect pearl ever found in the Mississippi River basin.
The Philadelphia Times notes Gough toured the West to spur prohibition, provoking fear among distillers who sent speakers to counter him. In Topeka a heated exchange ended with Gough declaring temperance would bring spiritual and material rewards, while a heckler warned of corn profits for whiskey makers. Gough retorted caustically, trimming the debate to a single pointed zinger about corn and poverty.
The Henderson North Carolina resident recounts an experience with dysentery and Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, noting it controlled the illness quicker than prior treatments. For sale by Orr Gray & Co. The rest includes unrelated fragments about a woman and a race.
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