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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1900
Page
6
A fragment from Pickering Garrison New York presents a playful exchange of Christmas wishes. A woman mocks luxury while a suitor responds with humorous wants including blue eyes, strong hands, a joyful laugh, and youth’s sweetness, ending with a polite signoff in verse and prose.
Jean Aubert and Delia, with children Robert and the twins Welia and Henri, advance from migrant workers to landowners in a small hillside house near mills. Despite progress and a growing parlor fund, a looming mortgage and rising costs threaten Christmas, as interest and living expenses squeeze the family.
In a Canadian-Aubert family tale, Jean Aubert and family host Pierre Demarest, a former neighbor, who arrives with a plan to repay their generosity. The old man secretly funds their mortgage with 2000 dollars, enabling them to finish the house and celebrate a Christmas their children will never forget.
In a brief exchange from New York Preuss, Gilson explains to Willets that Gilchrist’s wife left after asking what he would gift her for Christmas. He says his response was to let her get her teeth fixed, sparking surprise in the conversation.
The poem by T. H. Darlow frames Thanksgiving as the season’s deepest note and Christmas as a call to gratitude. It invites daily doxology and shared praise for common life, urging a chorus of Glory to God through everyday acts.
The article notes sunlight as a healing factor and describes sun wards or solaria in modern hospitals. It explains that sunrooms are on the south side with extensive glass walls, large bay windows, and full-building extension potential, stressing ventilation and heating for each floor.
A London paper reports the French Foreign Legion offers the hardest military service and attracts criminals and outcasts from many nations. It fends off threats at African frontier posts and in Cambodia and Indo China with daily flogging and capital punishment for minor offenses.
The ChilIlithh observation car, built by the Pullman Company for The American Tourist Association of Chicago, opens on top and sides to view canyons in Mexico. Invented by Beau Campbell, it evolved from a trolley style car to a dining and pavilion car, seating 68 and dining for 58, with electric lighting and Chinese lanterns.
The article extols sun baths as practical on bright winter days and therapy uses in hospitals. It notes pleasant solarium views enhance benefit, while brick walls may limit south-facing exposure, but emphasizes sun’s direct rays remain valuable and inexpensive for treatment wherever possible.
A California suit in Ukiah involves the city of Ukiah claiming 570.75 dollars from the local waterworks for fire damage caused when hydrants lacked water because the plant was shut to stop irrigating lawns. The city alleges the franchise requires constant water pressure for extinguishing fires. if won, other victims may gain similar actions.
An old Atchison Globe line notes visiting kin fall into two groups, those served in the parlor and those who must help in the kitchen, reflecting social expectations of gracious hospitality.
A concise line from Chicago Daily News notes a playful reflection on vision and the eye, labeling the idea as visionary and prompting contemplation of perception.
A physician studying legionaries argues most cases are fully developed at enlistment as few sane men would accept the corps conditions. He adds many men shot for discipline breaches were not mentally responsible, noting similar issues could cause insubordination among French troops with Allied forces in China.
A young Hindu girl from a high caste family, Sooboonagam Amma known as Sooboo, became a Christian after visiting a mission in Boston. Her father declared her an outcast, the mother mourned and vanished to the Ganges, and the home sealed Sooboo's room after her defection.
A fragment describes Eskimo and Japanese infants as fair with a dark circular spot on the back that spreads to color the child like a well smoked meerschaum pipe. This vivid racialized description appears in the Albany Argus.
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