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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1893
Page
3
Ex President Hayes recounts a Connecticut school memory where a bashful boy faced an embarrassing dinner scene. He describes resisting requests for utensils and walking nine miles home hungry, then resolves to become a better man and a future lawyer.
The Globe-Democrat notes a single clover head holds about sixty flower tubes with endless sugar. A bee visits about a hundred heads to gather nectar, thrusting into roughly six thousand flowers. With twenty trips daily near a hive, a bee taps 120000 flowers in a day, making human labor seem easy by comparison.
A Detroit Tribune piece describes a tense streetcar moment. A grave young man in black leather shoes reads his Bible while a summer girl in a white Eton jacket enters, they clash over space, and he moves to the front as she apologizes with a smile.
The notice praises Hortetter's Stomach Hitters as a reliable substitute for drastic purgatives like blue pills calomel salts and senna. It claims the tonic changes the bowels liver digestion and bile secretion while also addressing malaria rheumatism and kidney trouble with a wine glassful three times daily.
A retired journalist pitches a business plan to his new grocer employer proposing to boost sales by offering a Jamaica coupon with every watermelon. The exchange reflects a lighthearted, era tone from the Indianapolis Journal.
A sensational snippet from New York Weekly features an evidently intoxicated man demanding a keg of liquor and a druggist in Shelbyville Indiana touting Halls Catarin Cure. The piece also notes trends in court summons for Bacchrat and Jamaica Ginger touting authenticity and strength.
The note presents tips on nail care and wrinkle prevention with several practical hints. It stresses personal grooming steps and simple routines readers can adopt.
Advice on cleaning carpets using wet newspaper pieces to trap dust. Instructions cover matting, velvet pile, and ammonia or turpentine mixtures for brightening and moth prevention, with tips on repeated changes of wash water for large or dirty carpets.
A practical woman explains a bias fold technique for dressmaking with a hand made edge using whalebone and precise basting. The article also offers advice on hosting, urging comfortable country-house rooms with a sitting area, music, photographs, and inviting decor to create a welcoming atmosphere.
A discussion on wrinkle prevention noting they appear uninvited and are linked to stress and poor care. The piece argues best cure is to avoid wrinkles by proper daily cleansing, warmth, soap, and gentle rubbing, and cites Italian children as examples of skin with fewer wrinkles. It ends noting modern women's worries contribute to skin aging.
An article compares annual college costs for women from Mount Holyoke to Bryn-Mawr, listing board and tuition figures from 200 to 475 dollars. It notes extra expenses for toilets, travel, music, lectures, societies, and class entertainments, plus room decorations and comfort items chosen by the student.
The text stresses nail cleanliness as essential before surgery. It advises using a nail-brush with soap and water, avoiding knife blades, and washing hands thoroughly. Surgeons historically recognized under-nail deposits as a risk for infection, requiring assistants to maintain strict hand cleanliness and disinfect hands before touching the patient or instruments.
A practical tip for women wearing kid gloves in hot weather advises turning gloves inside out by the wrists to air them, then turning again and storing them stretched in a long glove box. This method avoids blowing air into the gloves and achieves a dry, unwrinkled result.
Guests gather in a dignified manner as a mother moves between rooms to set a ceremony. The master of the house lights fires and warmth fills the home while everyone sings Home Sweet Home. A four summers daughter lights the lamp at the dining table completing the hospitable scene.
Fine handkerchiefs are costly, so women sew their own from small linen lawn squares. They finish with a narrow hem and simple initials, either solid or dotted, often featuring fleur-de-lys or numbers in corners. Lace, when added, uses real Valenciennes lace matching the hem width.
An article from the New York Ledger argues for regular swimming instruction for youth. It stresses accuracy under pressure, keeping afloat, and practicing rescue drills to prevent drownings and enable safe self and group rescues in water.
In Clover Gap along Rattlesnake Creek Leckie Parker, a nineteen year old strong rifle shot known for her Winchester, battled a den of rattlesnakes barefooted while gathering ginseng. After hours of fighting she exterminated sixty snakes that remained visible, while others hid in rocks and brush.
A printed miscellany features a rainy morning scene with Mrs Hicharc and Mr Hichurch debating providence and a missing return. Gotham Mann tips a waiter while H Slinger from Chicago rejects a trivial gift, reflecting social satire. Meanwhile Mr West Monroe mocks Eastern dining manners and napkin etiquette in a light, humorous item.
A humorous exchange shows a cook claiming skill under test while a lady questions an applicant's culinary capacity. The cook defends himself jokingly by offering to ask a policeman to verify his abilities, in a Tit-Bits brief.
Chappie and Puck recount a seaside episode where a bunco man dupes an unwary English visitor. The exchange blends humor with a hint of nautical mischief as friends reflect on the scam and its comic aftermath.
A clipped exchange mocks reserved seating for ladies and social etiquette. The humor centers on Miss Grace Willoughby in mourning and a remark about her attending fashionable venues, contrasting decorum with wit.
Dialog from the Indianapolis Journik shows a character named Mr Fligg urging effort before gain while Tommy laments free handouts and frequent punishment. The exchange reflects a frontier ethic echoing through a periodical joke page.
In a conversation from the Indianapolis Journal Potts says he plans to grow a garden this year and Watts asks about it. Potts recalls a garden last year that supplied him with chickens until frost.
In a playful exchange Myrtylla asks how to know love is real. Harry says his confidence comes from watching attention from other girls and noting their flirting interest. The scene captures a lively dating dynamic with light humor.
In a clipped Philadelphia Record item a grocer or butcher is questioned about a sheep's tongue. Bridget cannot locate her mother amid the confusion. The exchange hints at market chatter and domestic humor.
A humorous dialect exchange features Mary Ann and Moike in a playful domestic moment. Moike teases about nail care while Mary Ann pretends to be busy with her own grooming, ending with a lighthearted planning tease.
A brief line from a 1920s stage piece shows a motherly exchange with a child about visitors. The dialogue contrasts upstairs baby viewing with the notion of fashion style drawing curiosity from the women and the little girl.
A man asks about a peculiar clock and the other reveals it stops at zero o'clock each night while the ticking continues loudly, calling it the Married Man's Delight. The exchange hints at a humorous or allegorical device rather than a standard timepiece.
A collage of comic lines from historic papers shows a man joking beside a wood pile about expected splitting. A Yonkers Statesman quips about a farmer and a tramp. a Detroit Free Press cartoon features a dog tale about a fierce animal and a mother seeking a child-friendly pet.
Quoted snippets reveal musings on luck with thirteen and a report of Tillipy's death this morning. The Detroit Free Press notes no last words from Tillipy, his wife present, while other items reference a clothing purchase failing, and a playful missing-word contest anecdote from the Indianapolis Journal.
An experienced seaman describes dock rats at Chicago docks swarming aboard ships and climbing rigging to reach food. He notes rats travel between ports, with examples from Jamaica and India, and recounts a voyage where rats climbed to water, some falling overboard while others continued the journey. Tribune account.
A humorous collage shows Maud claiming defiant fashion beliefs with a boastful No. 3 shoe on a No. 6 foot and a 23 inch corset on a 30 inch waist. The piece entertains exchanges between Maud and Ethel, plus snippets from other captions and jokes about daily life and schoolroom quirks.
The Manual of the American Bible Society notes scriptures printed or circulated in 95 languages and dialects. By April 1892 British and Foreign Bible Society issued 131,844,796 and American Bible Society 55,531,906 Bibles and testaments.
A meditation contrasts a life of constant duty with the lure of youth and pleasure. It argues against viewing early life as a holiday from virtue and insists that reverence, affection, and religious influence should permeate every period. It then defines a home as more than shelter, a center of love guiding character toward a heavenly standard.
Over the past decade 1,700 churches have been built in Arkansas by various denominations. A Young Men's Christian Association forms in Damascus Palestine with 26 charter members. Foreign missionaries and teachers from French, German, Spanish and other groups serve on staff. Reverend Edward Palmer of Boston attends every Barstow College commencement since graduating in 1856. Dr. Samuel Hart of Trinity College declines the Vermont Episcopal bishopric to stay in his current post. Reverend Henry Henry of Woodstock Connecticut is Yale’s oldest living graduate and alongside Dr. Edward Beecher is the last survivor of the class of 1822.
A garbled excerpt from St Augustine News describes islanding in the Everglades, a palm attacked, one person killed, another injured or unaccounted, and mentions a wild fig tree called ho co moth locco by Indians.
Edward Whymper introduces a new mountain aneroid designed for travel and exploration. It uses a perfect air tight outer case and keeps internal pressure near normal, except during readings when the cock opens to the external atmosphere and a small pump restores pressure.
A boy copied the senator’s name from a public document using Webster’s atlas and classroom help, wrote asking for an autograph, and Sumner replied with a concise confirmation of his name and autograph. The exchange, noted in the New York Times, shows light humor and educational pride.
The maker of a note who promises payment without consideration to aid the payee is making an accommodation note and cannot recover the amount from the maker. If the note is indorsed to a third party for value received, the maker is liable to the third party, even if the third party knew the note’s nature.
The song Red, White, and Blue originated in Great Britain and was lightly altered for American use. During the Crimean War it was sung in theaters, music halls, and on streets across the British empire wherever the red, white, and blue flag flew, from Europe to Australia.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a mild cleansing remedy to purge the system. It claims effectual relief from habitual constipation and sluggish kidneys and liver, and promises to dispel headaches, colds or fevers without irritation.
Brown and Jones discuss a plan to settle a house account and dine at the club. Brown hints he has an idea and urges Jones to send the money now and come in tonight.
The North Western Line offers low rate harvest excursions to Northwestern Iowa Western Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Manitoba Nebraska Colorado Wyoming and Utah. Tickets go on sale August 22 September 12 and October 10 1693 and are valid for return within twenty days with stop overs on the outbound trip. For rates and details contact ticket agents or W A Thrall general passenger and ticket agent Chicago and North Western Railway Chicago.
A reader notes the noise level at the World’s Fair while another person says the noise is not overpowering after visiting the women’s building. An advertisement promotes Beecham’s Pills claiming relief from headache chills and nervous trembles for 25 cents a box.
The page notes a woman killed in a crush at a bargain counter yesterday, with exchanges about the event showing surprise at the sale. It also includes an aside about Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup as a cure for croup and a saying about the worm turning.
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