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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1901
Page
1
The Laurel stony quarries are reported in better condition and more prosperous than ever. Indiana Day at the Pan-American Exposition will occur in the latter part of September with expectations of many Hoosiers visiting Buffalo as cooler weather arrives.
An exchange describes a good citizen as one who takes pride in his town and pays debts, speaks well of neighbors, subscribes to and pays for his home paper, and avoids squeezing every 25 cent piece. He keeps tidy habits, bathes weekly, and ensures his loved one need not use a hedge fence for a clothes line or repurpose ash barrels for fuel.
A farmers institute speaker praised the country press as the farmer’s strongest ally. He urged advance yearly subscriptions, support for advertisers, and choosing merchants who back local papers over those who refuse to advertise. He insisted the man who funds the paper should earn the farmer’s patronage.
Citizens of Knightstown invite all in this section to participate in a public Fourth of July celebration at Homer Dale Driving Park with balloon ascensions, parachute drop, baseball, horse and bicycle racing, hurdle events, and a grand fireworks display, sponsored by the K of P lodge with excursion rail rates.
The Oxford College marks its fifty second year with twenty four graduates from five courses. Rev W Roberts of Centre College Ky preached the baccalaureate sermon on Sabbath. Commencement events included a Tuesday morning general exercise and a Monday evening oratorical and musical program. Rev Dr John H Thomas ends his connection as president. Miss Fannie Kuith Robinson to take over duties as president and dean. Miss Blanche Marie Miller, Cambridge City, a student in the Oxford College of Oratory.
A New York Sun report describes women traders in Wall Street firms who ride a bull market to significant gains. Brokers say about 300 women regularly trade, with profits ranging from thousands to tens of thousands, while drivers of fashion and luxury follow their rising wealth. Only a few women reportedly suffer losses amid the speculative fervor.
Washington via New York Press reports the Military Order of the Dragon is formed with three classes. Officers who marched on Peking or defended the legation. hereditary male descendants of such officers. civilians active in the expedition or siege. General Chaffee is president, Captain McCalla first vice president, Captain Jobo T. My era third vice president.
The Washington Times says the effort to establish an American national gallery, modeled after London's and other European capitals, is well begun and supporters now clearly see the plan to its end.
The method uses a 100 square inch funnel to catch rainfall, feeding a tube at a fixed ratio to the funnel area. A one tenth scale yields depth readings, with a clear gradated scale. Larger funnels improve accuracy, rooftop gauges often collect less water than ground gauges due to air moisture loss and drop size.
A historical account explains why deer horns differ from bovine horns. It notes horns sprout from the brain, grow like plants and animals, shed annually with age, and are nourished by a surface secretion. It highlights the horns as odorous, decay resistant, and only produced by males, with unique properties and discrepancies from other animal horn biology.
A typewritten divorce complaint was hidden in a bouquet of American Beauty roses tossed onto the Bowery stage, striking Mrs. Veturia H. Brinkley as her estranged husband Robert C. Brinkley sought to serve papers. The plant gift turned arrest gambit played out under stage scrutiny as a deputy sheriff watched.
The passage argues how theater and dramatic framing drive interest in politics and morality. It cites Shakespeare and Shaw to claim people prefer bold, dramatized creeds over dull epistles, and that fables endure because they state truth in a dramatic moral form.
Bulwer in his Artificial Change ling mentions John Sim ons of Berkshire born without arms or hands yet able to write with his mouth thread a needle tie a knot shuffle cut and deal a pack of cards. His wondrous age was shown in London in 1653.
A witty exchange shows a husband asking how to avoid swearing after a hammer hit and a wife retorting that she can think hard about his selfish insistence on driving the nails himself. The fragment captures a domestic comic panel style from New York Weekly.
A Boston Transcript quip notes a young woman’s query on keeping hands white and soft. The response suggests a humorous routine: soaking hands in dishwater three times daily while mother rests on the sofa. The item reflects light humor in a period newspaper tone.
The water boundaries of France include the Mediterranean coast of 305 miles the North Sea strait of Dover and English Channel at 572 miles and the Atlantic Ocean coast at 584 miles.
Atchison Globe cautions against overextending oneself on tasks that yield little value, urging focus on meaningful, effective effort and personal well being. The message emphasizes balance between helping others and preserving one’s strength for productive work.
Miss Helen Hay daughter of the secretary of state enters poetry with The Rose of Dawn a love tale of the south seas. The elder Hay sister portrays Uhila Taka and Malua in a tribal setting with Longfellow echoes and Hiawatha touches while noting and dismissing her father’s satire as distant in tone.
A London firm plans to deploy cotton planting experts to West Africa. Two specialists from the southern states will teach natives in Lagos Sierra Leone Bathurst and Cape Coast Castle to grow cotton. The aim is to foster a new regional cotton industry and trade.
The piece recalls a Feb 5 Boston march where about 300 bootblacks, many under 12, pleaded before legislators to permit Sunday bootblacking until 11 am. They argued Sunday earnings aid ill parents and siblings, noting hardships and the need to study and support their families. The event echoed a historic protest by Boston youths against British interference on the Common.
In a wood shed Mr X observed a brown rat steal a dog biscuit. The rodent retreated behind a partition and returned with a second rat. They coordinated to lift and slide the treat through narrow slats, two rats working inside and outside to claim the prize.
A Beverly Mass publication prints a mnemonic poem teaching grammar. It lists articles pronouns adjectives verbs adverbs conjunctions prepositions and interjections as the nine parts of speech and notes their roles with simple examples in a rhymed form.
Two boys act as gamecocks in a lighthearted English sport. Each hops on one leg with folded arms and bumps the other to force him to ground. The winner is the one who stays up longest, avoiding a fall in a playful contest.
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