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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1893
Page
4
The piece describes a second wedding anniversary celebrated with paper decor in dresses, flowers, and tableware. Guests are urged to come without gifts, though gifts like crepe paper crafts, lamp shades, and table spreads are suggested along with photos etchings books or magazine subscriptions for lasting value.
The article notes the phonograph’s remarkable ability to reproduce a bell’s sound with fidelity. It mentions Westminster bells as early British experiments and describes a firsthand demonstration recording a large bell tolling twelve. The cylinder, spun as the bell tolled, produced a marvelously faithful copy of the tones.
Advertises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal cure for malaise and stomach liver and bowel disorders. Claims protection against miasma and tropical poisons with benefits for rheumatism kidney complaints and nervousness. Targets travelers outdoor workers and those under stress to maintain health.
Nancy Munn Waddle describes fern cultivation emphasizing shade and moisture for most varieties. Potting mix includes creek gravel, sand, leaf mould, loam, and charcoal. plants do best in open soil. Do not spray water on gold and silver ferns as it spoils their fronds.
Directions advise cleaning sofa and chair coverings without removal by washing with warm water and soap, rubbing with a flannel, then applying a strong salt and water solution with a touch of ga. Open windows to ensure complete drying and restore color and freshness.
The WREN girls, all sixteen, reflect a moment of pride as their parents express support and admiration for their daughters achievements and growth.
Fragmentary verse recalls June clouds and Hesper in gold from the skies. The speaker notes swift progress through night and day, praising bands of joy and golden days, while hinting at time’s hidden ticking wheels behind love’s memories.
M Theodore, chef de surete, hears a mysterious claim that a portrait of an assassin can be captured from a victim’s retina. Frederick Bouscal, a photographer, attempts the method on a murder case but dies in tragedy along with his wife after their failed experiment. The終story ends with a somber note on rash inventors and fate.
The passage argues marriage shapes character, teaching self denial, tenderness, and love beyond self. It presents family life as the best school for virtue, aligning earthly life with divine image, Christ’s example, and eventual heavenly membership.
The English ambassador on his way to Sweden in 1653, troubled by the nation’s state, cannot sleep at Warwick. A trusted servant asks if he trusts God to govern the world before and after his life, prompting Whitelock to find rest and voyage readiness.
The piece argues philosophy offers amusing but fallacious comforts while religion provides true solace. It claims philosophy conflicts with life’s misery and brevity, whereas religion offers perpetual happiness and rest. Religion is depicted as the true source of enduring comfort for both the hopeful and the suffering.
Bishop Brooks argues that spiritual and moral duties are inseparable and that daily duties to fellow humans must not be eclipsed by lofty religious ideals. He cautions against delaying simple duties while pursuing long term piety and urges balanced regard for God and neighbor in everyday life.
The piece laments that many misunderstandings linger like splinters causing mischief and trouble. It argues that five minutes of frank honest talk would have settled the whole matter and warns that silence is a dangerous policy that has caused harm and suffering.
The article notes 10 480 churches in Canada and 5 276 Christian Endeavor societies. It cites Brisnor TuOBURN predicting India converts may outpace the last 92 years in eight years. It claims Russia’s state church could pay 200 million pounds debt and remain rich. The Presbyterian and Methodist churches request 250 000 dollars for freedmen work. The International Missionary Union in the United States has over 500 members, representing American Canadian and English societies.
The text argues that precise tongue contact is not essential for speech. It notes that variations in articulation, such as French and German sounds, do not prevent success in life or professions. Even cleft palate speech can still allow one to function and compete, with life persistence proving stronger than flawless pronunciation.
In summer 1563 eight English merchantmen anchored at Gibraltar as England and France warred. A French brig neared, but a Spanish squadron under Alvarez de Cacún arrived, capturing the English ships and sending their 240 crew to the galleys. Inquisition brutality followed, with only 90 surviving nine months later. Cobham of Cowling Castle, a Protestant ship captain, captured a Spanish prize, scuttled the ship, and sent prisoners to their deaths by flinging them overboard wrapped in winding sheets.
The text argues that persistent mental work builds nerve power and extends life beyond simple physical fitness. It notes doctors’ observations that long habit of thinking strengthens resilience, while the idea of brain power directly powering muscles is uncertain yet the vitality effect is evident in high mental endurance. A humorous aside then contrasts a mosquito with a doomed joke about a dead sheet.
A Circular of the Scottish Home Rule Union argues that England disrespects smaller nations and warns against merging Scotland into England. It asserts Scotland’s loyalty to the British Crown, preservation of Scottish history, and demand that treaty spirit be observed without denationalizing Scotland.
A farmer’s wife answers a question about her husband who early loaded a shotgun and left in uncertainty whether he went to threaten someone with a gun or to meet a “green-goods man.” The quote reflects rural rumor in an Indianapolis Journal excerpt.
The phrase potato talk described light gossip in German five oclock tea gatherings. Women visited friends to chat over tea and cake about household affairs and cooking. The term implied a stern man would scorn such chatter as trivial.
The Glenesslen arrived after a five month voyage from the Philippine Islands bearing the tail of a notorious man-eating shark encountered in New Angier waters. A sailor dispatched the beast with a knife and severed the tail as a trophy, after it was drawn aboard by a ham bait.
A historical instruction describes making a silver paste by boiling one pint water with a quarter pound soap sliced thin, then adding a quarter pound Spanish white forming a paste. After mixing pour into pots and use cold with a cloth, rinse in hot water and polish with chamois. The text adds a social remark about loneliness of women awaiting an ideal man.
A narrative contrasts Arab and European horse training. Abou Obaida, famed for horse lore, is challenged by the vizier to name horse parts and recite proverbs while touching the horse. The poet performs this feat, earning the horse as a prize in a courtly tale from Harpers Young People.
A Rochester man proposes a lever operated device for streetcars that uses a corrugated steel shoe under the rear wheels to grip the rail and clamp the wheel rim, making the car hard stop within three feet as the motorman operates the mechanism.
An Irishman faced theft charges for taking a watch from a citizen. He denied the accusation and countered with an assault claim about a frying-pan. The judge urged self defense, prompting Pat to quip that the watch mattered little against a frying-pan.
The passage explains that Scot free does not refer to the North Britons but to a Saxon word scot meaning payment. It links scot and lot as contribution and share and equates pay one's shot with scot for the same idea of a contribution or payment.
The article describes a traditional whitewash recipe mixing lime with hot water, eight quarts of salt solution, two and a half pounds of ground rice paste, one pound of glue dissolved in hot water, and half a pound of whitening pigment. After combining, let the mixture sit a day or two before applying hot with a brush.
A compact reflection on the relation between labor and thought by Ruskin. It asserts that healthy thought comes from labor and labor becomes happy through thought, stressing their inseparability.
A tribute to a great man who has passed on, declaring a pledge to live as he wished to do ten thousand ages hence. The excerpt extols lofty aims as a safeguard against temptation, an impulse toward virtue, and a foundation for enduring hopes.
Emma M. Hooper notes green as the key color that pairs with all shades in a civil article. She describes combinations with green, brown, tan, black, gray, purple and blue, warning that yellowish greens jar while grayish greens harmonize. New old rose shades also mix with brown gray green black and purple.
The Monta di Pieta in Rome, dating to 1585, offers pledges from 315 to 25 with no interest. Amounts above 25 incur 2 percent annual interest. After two years, if unredeemed, pledged items are sold and any excess debt waived. owner may reclaim within 100 years.
Barrels manufactured in Barrow England are built in halves by hot compression in a mold and welded together by electricity. The design targets oil companies in the east where cold tempera ture harms wood casks and causes leakage.
The modern beauty thrives on good food and sunshine with ample outdoor exercise. Her arm glows with health and her face blooms with beauty. If cleansing is needed she uses the gentle liquid laxative Syrup of Figs.
A playful Exchange remark suggests California redwoods have trunks large enough for a house and jokes that all plants are either masculine or feminine, with a mother or little Dick aside. The tiny quip notes the book’s claim about tree size.
Travel sale announces very low rates from all Wabash Railroad stations to Iowa Minnesota Kansas Nebraska Colorado Wyoming Utah North and South Dakota Manitoba Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Louisiana Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas and Arizona. Tickets valid return within twenty days from sale date. Details from nearest Wabash agent.
An old ad follows a dialogue sketch about love and marriage with a Beecham's Pills wartime style pitch. The copy touts Beecham's Pills as a positive specific for malaria at 25 cents a box.
A teacher critiques a singer noting poor use of forehead and scalp muscles. An advertisement follows for Hatch's Universal Cough Syrup promising quick relief for a cough at 25 cents.
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