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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1899
Page
3
Poem reflecting on life's closing hours and the hope of rest in Heaven. Calls for peace and gladness at life's last hour. Appears as a devotional verse attributed to Celenda A Pease in the Baptist Union.
In a tense hour at Gordon’s club, Tom Fairleigh confesses love for Amy Hepburn but learns Gordon already loves her, while a living skeleton in the closet reveals Hepburn’s ruin and a family curse tied to wealth. Gordon and Amy later wed, and the missing skeleton fades as the couple choose happiness over past wrongs.
Cartoonish tale notes a cheerful dean and a serious wife in a Woking parish. The wife frets at neighbors while the husband downplays fears, joking that their only hope is she entertains a lot, as narrated in London Life.
The Boston Budget notes Penn urged gentleness toward Indians urging friendship and league. He bought land from them after arriving in America and pledged strict justice, claiming this fostered safety. The piece links Penn's policy to Pennsylvania's long period free of Indian dangers until later French tensions.
In a humorously pitched debate a fatherly Uncle Jedediah favors arbitration for international disputes while noting a possible exception when national honor calls for war. Uncle Hezekiah presses for a clarified case where am purators decide for the other side, prompting a mock judicial moment.
A country parson tells a village tailor that for a good coat he goes to a London tailor and for a good sermon he goes to London. The tailor admits he attends church occasionally and once again names London as the source of quality.
A playful collage of short quips and humorous exchanges from multiple papers. Jokes about aging industrious husbands, clever suitors, and witty banter among citizens, with light domestic and social satire.
Jefferson medical college researchers study kidney secretions in long bicycle rides. Temporary albuminuria appears within 20 minutes after a long ride, unlike Bright's disease which shows casts. Most cases clear in 12 hours. persistent albuminuria signals possible kidney trouble, urging medical supervision for trained riders.
In Bournemouth England clerics lead a campaign against sleeping in church arguing that somnolence is rude to the preacher and unesthetic. Rev T Evans notes many see laughter as a sin but view sleep as harmless and jokes of pastors using cameras to snap dormant parishioners are proposed.
reports from Carrabelle say Tuesday's storm wrecked two thirds of the town. Gulf Naval Stores Co docks and a resin warehouse valued at $100,000 were destroyed. The steamer Capitola was blown ashore. casualties include a drowned man near MacIntyre with unconfirmed fishermen losses.
Washington reports letters from the U S representatives in Germany detailing provincial proclamations against Belgian beef imports. Authorities in Prussia and other regions, acting with Berlin’s influence, bar Belgian slaughtered beef to prevent Texas fever risk from American cattle. orders took effect July 15.
Philip Sheridan, once crown prosecutor at Dawson, said U S surveyors have worked two years locating the Alaska boundary. He cited James Haines or Hayes, who conducted a topographical survey from the southern Alaska boundary to the Yukon River, returning via Fort Cudahy and claiming government direction. Hayes is an eastern native of Harlem New York.
Omaha reports that Fort Dodge officials test dairy herds supplying milk. 131 cows examined. 21 condemned. Council passes ordinance banning sale of untested tuberculosis free milk and requires milk vendors to be licensed with herd tests showing all cows tuberculosis free.
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