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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1901
Page
6
The speaker celebrates nature’s varied sights from emerald moss to pine bark and birch blossoms. Dew pearls and diamonds adorn a frost covered landscape, offering countless joys that outshine distant Orient mines with their quiet beauty.
Cason yields his neck to the execution ax as Tob’s crew wins a crucial battle. The body is devoured by a great bird, and Tob vows loyalty while plans for Atlantis progress amid political peril.
The narrator recalls city growth from the sea and the initiation sites as Phorenice plans to depart. At the royal quay Tob's galley is marked, and a splendid procession begins with trumpets and mounted ornament. Soldiers lead the advancing pageant along the riverfront pavilion.
In Atlantis a vast procession forms with guilds marching past, then a tame mammoth bearing a gilded half castle and the Empress Phorenicé arrives. Deucalion meets her on the square, she proclaims his supremacy and grants him royal rank before joining her in the golden float.
Deucalion travels with Phorenice through her capital Atlantis and meets her and the glittering court. She declares herself serious about ruling and tests Deucalion’s loyalty and resolve, offering power and a share of danger, while rebels loom beyond the walls.
A spurious 19th century note claims Russian parents judge a prospective bride by supper behavior. It suggests meal speed, cleanliness, talkativeness, bread type, gaze, and quick dish clearing foretell wife qualities and future prosperity. The piece ends with a superstition about who steps onto the pulpit first during the wedding platform dash.
A London Telegraph correspondent recalls Turkish ladies in Constantinople observing extreme ceremonial cleanliness. They avoid touching doors and dolls from Paris, relying on servants. a doll is dropped to avoid defilement and letters are opened by servants. Men reportedly do not share these practices.
In 1759 a British captain jailed for saluting his wife in Boston faced public whipping. Before departure he hosted an elaborate port sendoff for magistrates who were then stripped and given 39 lashes at the gangway amid cheering crew.
Short excerpt shows a girl named Bessie expressing a wish to be a boy to escape being bossed, revealing themes of gender expectation and desire for freedom in a Chicago Record-Herald vignette.
The article presents a Bible lesson on Exodus chapters 11 and 12, detailing Moses and Pharaoh's exchanges, the final plague, and the instruction to Israel to borrow jewels from Egyptians. It notes the ten plagues, the last warning, and the theological message that Jehovah prevails over Egyptian gods.
A rambling blusta from the Ram's Horn argues that time wasted on worthless men weakens life. It urges deeper living through sacrifice, letting tears drive improvement, and questions those who see honesty as mere policy and refuse to pay the premiums.
The piece traces word origins noting tomboy once described a rude boy, furlong as furrow length for oxen, rosewood not from actual roses but named for its scent, and vagabond as a traveler without fixed aim. It highlights historical shifts in usage and meaning.
Cincinnati Nov 30 The Everett Moore syndicate is believed to back a project turning Ohio canals into roadbeds for electric rails The Attorney General Sheets will visit Cincinnati to examine the Miami and Transportation Co under its electric mule franchise He may sue if findings show canal bed rails are for an electric railway rather than canal boats propulsion
Wilbert P. Clarke, 27, longtime telegraph editor of the Times, committed death by his own action at the Niagara hotel in Toledo on Sunday night. Despondent over domestic troubles and strained with his Detroit marriage, Clarke had worked at papers in Detroit, New York and Kansas City.
Attorney General Sheets begins filing petitions in the Ohio Supreme Court within a week to collect penalties from the American Tin Plate Co. and the American Sheet Steel Co. for operating in Ohio without foreign corporation fees. The suits seek about $50,000 for the period of violation.
Burglars broke into the Hilliards parsonage Sunday night while Rev. L. W. Miller lived there. They took the evening contribution box with $8, $18 from the pastor, clothing, three notes totaling $1 000 signed by H. D. Miller of Trenton, plus insurance policies and building and loan stock certificates.
Columbus report recounts State Food Commissioner Blackburn eating candy to test for poisonous coloring matter after the death of Elenora Nichols. He sought a personal demonstration Sunday and reported no ill effects so far.
A Tuscarawas county taxpayer filed a mandamus petition in the Ohio Supreme Court to force re valuation of the Cleveland and Pittsburg railroad. He asks that the line be valued as part of the Pennsylvania system at 105560 rather than as a branch at 31262.
In Springfield on December 3 a wealthy widow, Mrs. Mary Boskin, saved her setter from death after two months of care. A $300 bill from Dr. Marry Miller was paid without protest as the dog, struck by a trolley car two months prior, recovered after six sleepless nights of treatment.
The Republican state committee filed its Garfield law campaign receipts and expenditures. It reports $60,000 received and spent, five times the amount used by Democrats. Hanna reports $12,040 and Aker $9,500, though donor details are not given.
The Columbus Steel and Iron Co. shut its large furnace due to fuel shortage. About 150 workers will be idle for roughly ten days as all available cars and equipment are diverted to rush coal to the lakes before navigation closes.
Sheriff Hughes acting on Gov Nash instructions served police on the Longshoremen's Athletic Association at Richmond Ohio to halt a boxing match between lightweights Jimmy Hoy and Farmer Reader for last pay. The action followed authorities deeming the event as unauthorized and halted before any bout took place.
Steubenville reports Charles Lucas a colored cook stricken with smallpox at Mingo Junction on Monday. Thirty boarders are quarantined and the victim has been removed from town. Wellsburg across the river reports four cases.
William Bell a colored plasterer on the new building at Giddings avenue and Superior street fell five stories Monday morning. He landed on the ground without a broken bone and is expected to recover.
Albert Macra jank was trapped in a sewer cavern yesterday afternoon. He sustained serious injuries and was hospitalized, with officials reporting a likely fatal outcome.
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