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Newspaper
Batesville Tribune
Location
Batesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1902
Page
2
Readable fragments describe a Christmas visit at Grandma's with family, gifts, and a emotional reveal. Nellie receives a treasured watch in a pincushion while others exchange jewelry and mementos. The scene closes with heartfelt thanks and a holiday message to Helen Whitney Chirk.
A reflective piece urges readers to greet the new year with courage hope and resolution. It emphasizes leaving past missteps behind while focusing energies on better outcomes and personal achievement through perseverance and positive outlook.
A poetic farewell piece laments the passing of the old year and greets the new with Christmas and spring imagery. It recalls holiday songs, scents of roses and violets, woodland scenes, and cheerful moments as time turns.
The article notes a sweeping festive season embracing February with varied rites. It mentions dragon dances and lanterns, people visiting homes, worshipping goods, and oriental ceremonies marking a new year. It describes a Chinaman settling debts to preserve gentlemanly status at the year’s start.
An old piece explains how mistletoe spreads. Birds eat mistletoe cherries and seed sticks to their beaks and mouths. The seed then deposits on tree branches where it sprouts and grows parasitically through the sapwood.
A Boston woman writes of severe fibroid symptoms and relief after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She alleges the remedy expelled the tumor and strengthened her, enabling walking long distances. similar testimonials praise the product and urge its use for ovarian troubles and uterine disorders.
A science claim says peat can make an equivalent electrical insulator to gutta percha, the current standard for submarine cables. If true, it could ease supply limits as gutta percha prices rise. Ireland holds 3 million acres of bogland, Scotland 2.5 million acres, potentially supplying the inventor.
The text argues that marriage strengthens character and endurance. It cites the Baltimore Sun noting the strenuous life of caring for an infant at night as cultivating virtue, and asserts that supporting a growing family builds physical and intellectual strength.
The manager says several disinterested readers found the new play improper and refused to read it through. In Shanghai a Chinese official hosted a dinner for foreign officials featuring 126 courses.
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