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Newspaper
Ashton Gazette
Location
Ashton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1914
Page
3
A historical set of craft instructions explains making fire balloons using eight gores from heavy wrapping paper, tissue, and a bamboo bottom hoop, with a fireball of excelsior and a heat collar. It also details spooled doll carriages built from wooden spools, cardboard, and paper, including steps for wheels, chassis, and a doll swing.
A devotional study contrasts the self righteous Pharisee with the humble tax collector. It notes the unjust judge parable’s backdrop, details Zacchaeus’s conversion after meeting Jesus, and concludes Jesus is the friend of sinners who saves those who humbly seek him.
Five Cents All Grocers announces the Rub No More Co based in Fort Wayne Indiana. The new venture markets cleaning and household products through discount outlets and catalogs. Local merchants anticipate a shift in pricing and competition.
An editorial lays out six reasons to advance summer ice prices. It notes thick blocks cost more to handle and waste from large cuts, storage ice freezing solid, rising summer demand after a cold winter, extra thick and cold ice justifying higher prices, and argues price rarely tracks production costs. It cites Life as the source.
A fragmentary note from the Philadelphia Record discusses an idealist as a very young man who thinks all women are angels. The text contrasts modesty and self reverence, suggesting none are truly great without tempering their views.
An 1862 Gaines Mill tale recalls North Texas capturing two Union regiments. Union officers surrender swords to Colonel Upton who drops his frying pan sword and holds weapons. A commotion erupts as prisoners try to slip by Big John Ferris who blocks them. Upton cries for Ferris to let them go, joking they would rather fight than feed them.
In a tor toise-shell spectacle scene a solemn reader recalls a girl who sent him a birthday letter every year for ten years, always expressing love and wishes for life and happiness. A stout young man notes the gesture as sweet, while the narrator points out the letter arrives on a different day each year.
During a Atlantic City visit The Fingerless Kind star Lillian Russell encounters many slashed skirts on the Boardwalk. A young girl with a daringly cut dress jokes about its fit while Russell smiles.
A thrush nesting under a first class carriages over the steam heating pipe near Limavady built four eggs. The Ilavady Londonderry service timetable disruption led the station master to alert railway officials who withdrew the carriage until the eggs hatch. The bird later returned and resumed incubation, prompting officials to delay service rather than disturb the nest.
In Louisville Courier Journal prose a man asks about Miss Wombat dancing and avoiding him. He explains he seeks a chance to propose, and believes she senses his plan. The exchange captures a witty public register of courtship.
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