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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1893
Page
3
In an eerie hunt the wild dogs of India chase a tiger by forming a tightening cordon that strips the predator of food and rest. They starve, tire, and exhaust the beast until it becomes easy prey, a plan that tests both courage and intelligence of the hunters and their quarry.
An 19th century tonic claim describes Noe as sedatives and nerve foods and marcotica curing nervous disturbances caused by irregular digestion. It asserts Stomachs Etters reforms stomach disorders and promotes general vigor, with regular bowels aiding nerves, and malaria or kidney complaints removed by the Batvers.
A book agent visits a public site to meet the superintendent as Gov Morris notes his identity and requests a moment on urgent business. The superintendent is preoccupied with the Governor of New Hampshire and offers to pass the agent’s details. Governor Morris confirms his name and gains official recognition. D Jayne's Expectorant is advertised as a lung remedy.
In a Boston Home Journal item a boy exclaims he had a close shave at his barber’s, eliciting surprised questions from a gathering of boys as they discuss the event with wonder and humor.
Advertises a remedy claimed by Donald Kennedy of Roxbury Massachusetts to cure scrofula pimples and all humors. Says he tested on over eleven hundred cases with two failures and holds more than two hundred certificates within twenty miles of Boston. Describes dosing and side effects and urges readers to read the label and send for the book.
The Ladies Corner cites Home Queen guidance on diet and fruit at meals. A specialist in skin diseases endorses a seasonable fruit plan to aid facial conditions, arguing early fruit courses aid digestion and appetite, while indigestible items should come later.
A visitor from England presents a three by two foot nursery wall card. It lists common child emergencies and remedies from bites to drowning with a how to do it box, designed to hang by the nursery door and guide mothers in emergencies. The card includes a space for a doctor contact and warns against improper use of remedies.
A reflective note from Womanhood urges resilience under stress. It speaks of pressing the heart, burying facedown in a pillow, and allowing tears to fall. If strength returns as it has for the writer, sharing the feelings will be a worthwhile act.
In an Iowa town near the Minnesota line a progressive church raised funds via a hand-holding social where men paid five cents for twenty-five minutes of hold time and offered kisses at about 75 cents each, with decorous hugs at a dollar. The scheme reportedly boosted church coffers and drew strong local interest.
A New York Times item describes a clever coat alteration turning a plain overcoat into a stylish fur collarette outfit with astrakhan sleeves muff and cuffs. The piece notes the fashion advantage of reusing coats for another season and the practical advice on creating a relaxing home lounge to ease daily tensions.
The New York Sun notes a sharp imbalance in classified ads as eleven columns seek workers and just over four seek helpers. It compares spring Chicago World’s Fair hiring with a summer downturn caused by economic cutbacks, yet finds little news of widespread poverty among idle women.
The passage argues that despite grace and social polish a woman must possess frugality and homemaking instincts to satisfy young men seeking a wife. It asserts men demand common sense and practical traits as essential for a wife who can manage a home and support a stable partnership.
A Ladies' Home Journal article by Eliza beth Robinson Scovil notes wicker bassinets trimmed with muslin and lace are pretty but lose crispness. It recommends sturdy rattan or iron cribs with frame suspending silk curtains and ribbon bows, white paint with brass knobs as a fine finish.
A Detroit Free Press tale recounts a dramatic on streetcar encounter on Grand Hiver Avenue. A passenger demanded the car number and tested the conductor with a playful exchange about a dainty hand and a palm leaf fan. The exchange ends with light humor about weather and soft soap.
A well dressed young man in New York found a muddy Newfoundland collapsed in the street. He lifted the dog to his arms and carried it to the sidewalk, explaining the animal was part of the family and had been brought from the country. He thanked a bystander, hailed a cab, and spoke gently of old friends with worn clothes.
A physician cites a theory that holding the breath partially closes skin pores and protects against bee stings, explaining immunity to colds seen in crowded unventilated rooms. The practice involves deep inspiration then breath-holding for half a minute, followed by brisk air and reinvigoration.
Crowded ferry waiting room as the last Oakland boat looms. A pretty girl in a dove bonnet helps a French speaking mother from Honolulu in distress, imploring the crowd and giving relief. She buys lodging for the woman, then quietly explains she could not resist aiding.
The article notes yearly production of three to four hundred tons of sinkers in the country with firms turning fifty to sixty tons annually and some melting two tons daily. New York, Boston, Brooklyn and other cities house sinks makers. Sinkers vary in style and weight for nets and line fishing, including the eight ounce Bank sinker. A single fishing boat may buy three to four hundred pounds weekly. some say the ocean bottom near the light ship may be paved with sinkers.
The New York Legislature appropriated funds to test electric towing on the Erie Canal. Westinghouse will conduct the trial at the Rochester level with trolley wires suspended along the canal banks and a flexible deck cable feeding a motor to drive the propeller shaft. Officials say the system is simple and practical.
Notes and Queries recounts a 1638 incident where a king rode in a large square boxed carriage drawn by four wheels and seating six. The report notes two guards facing forward and two at the sides, with a roof and curtains to hide the monarch after the fatal blow, aligning with differing historical versions.
Archduke Eugene of Austria has been invited to command the infantry brigade at Olmutz with the rank of General. He has completed theology exams and earned a doctorate in divinity. The Archbishopric is currently held by a Cardinal whose Jewish peasant parents remain faithful, and the son supports them in his palace.
A Notes and Queries remark explains how the Latin pair vis and vim entered English as a lofty synonym for energy and vigor. A pedantic journalist chose vis for its sound, using vim with an accusative form, then popular usage spread the misused term beyond its grammatical need.
A humorist in Japan requested his body be sent to his family temple for cremation without washing. After his death the chief priest began the cremation, and loud explosions interrupted the ceremony as mourners discovered he had hidden many firecrackers on his person.
Josiah H. MacFarland raised vegetables on 62 by 62 feet in Middletown Delaware County. He sold 375 cabbage heads 7 baskets string beans 16 quarts snap beans 3 baskets peas 2 baskets tomatoes 10 bushels potatoes 200 heads lettuce 112 bushels onions half bushel onion sets 300 bushels radishes 30 dozen ears corn 3 dozen cucumbers 5 dozen peppers 16 bunches beets 2300 celery stalks total 3100 dollars 89 cents. He valued market cost at 3160 dollars in a Philadelphia Times report.
A single flower bed flourishes in Osborne’s sunlit grass as Princess Beatrice guards it for the Queen’s delight. The Queen’s children learned to plant and tend gardens, fertilizing with vegetables and fruit in season. The royal plots remain as once tended by princes and princesses.
The Geneva Public Library, via subscription, purchases Egyptian papyri for study by M. Jules Nicole. He reports fragments of the Iliad and Odyssey with notable text variations from the standard edition, plus Euripides Orestes much older than any known manuscript. Additional works include a didactic elegy on the stars an idyll on Jupiter and Leda and various historical and scientific pieces.
A 115 foot high chimney near Marseilles with a four foot top diameter showed shadow measurements recording an oscillation maximum of over twenty inches during a strong wind. The observation demonstrates how shadows on the ground can reveal the extent of structural sway in tall chimneys.
A Detroit Tribune fragment quotes a weather department employee saying the team will be busy fixing climatic conditions for the clash between the public and the coal combine. The piece also notes Colchester TM Roading Boot ad and a stray line about reading food in front of a school teacher.
A French journal reports a cruelty to animals row. Two girls and their governess visited an art exhibition. Asked which picture pleased them most, both named the scene of Christians fed to lions, and one child lamented a lion had no Christian to eat.
Dr. C H Peterson argues in The Fortnightly Review that Carlyle’s temperament and early poverty shaped his bleak speculations. He notes Calvinism’s harsh discipline and cites the era’s war fatigue reform stagnation and famine as factors in the poet thinker’s outlook.
The Union Pacific Northern Pacific Philadelphia and Reading Erie and Richmond Terminal alone control over 25,000 miles of track. They show capitalization of 416 million, assets near 1.174 billion, funded debt exceeding 517 million. Market values suggest about 50 million in stock.
A New York Recorder quotation advises that a good woman should resemble the snail by staying indoors but not burden herself with belongings, resemble the echo by speaking only when spoken to yet not always having the last word, and resemble the town clock by being true and correct without making excessive noise.
In the Russian army a regiment of infantry of the guards formed by the Emperor Paul recruits by nose shape more than height or hair. Officers and men wear noses of a Kalmuk type as a tribute to Paul, producing a startling parade sight. A Cheap Overcoat anecdote follows about never wearing an overcoat in winter and preferring to run.
A commentary likens fame to the fickle grip of popularity, comparing it to the unreliable allure of a cheap five-cent cigar. The piece suggests public esteem rises and falls with passing trends and is not a stable measure of true value.
The diary notes that Princess Victoria, born 1819, was named Alexandrina at baptism with Georgiana blocked by the Duke of Kent. The Russian emperor’s ambassador was told Georgina could not be used, and Alexandrina Victoria became the infant’s name in full.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure as the sole cure for deafness caused by catarrh and Eustachian tube inflammation. Claims nine of ten cases result from catarrh and offers one hundred dollars for an untreatable deafness case. Circulation from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. available through local druggists for 75 cents.
Cloves remain the chief supply, sourced from Zanzibar and Pemba where the clove tree was introduced in 1830. Ten year old trees yield about twenty pounds, twenty year olds often exceed 100 pounds, and this season’s harvest will surpass all previous years.
In these grippe and pneumonia times it stresses looking for a safe remedy for a cold or cough. It warns a cough may signal pneumonia and urges not to delay seeking treatment. Kemp's Balsam is recommended as the best cough cure and is sold in all drug stores.
A columnist likens marriage to a circus, arguing that the reality inside differs from the grand banners shown publicly and suggests less substance than appears.
An assortment of brief notices and ad like phrases including a song offer to mail for 5 cents, a wedding voice remark, cough and cold remedies, Beechams Pills, Beecham ad style lines, a quip about women and money, Hatch Universal Cough Syrup, a proverb about avoiding useless work, Dr Kie Great Nerve Restorer claims, and a claim about husbands.
John Gilbert was gravely ill with liver and kidney failure and wasting away. After taking August Flower his health dramatically improved, astonishing his family and friends, according to a testimonial from John Quibell of Holt Ontario.
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