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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1901
Page
3
In a prairie winter tale, Jack Walworth rescues Nellie from a snow drift on New Year’s Eve and learns she plans to marry him after rejecting city life. Uncle Ben, Nellie’s minister uncle, witnesses a rustic wedding breakfast as a runaway team obliges the ceremony.
Jack Walkworth, a 25 year old bachelor on a western prairie, frets over loneliness at New Year. He lingers in a two room glassward sod house preparing a grand dinner from a cook book, dreaming of Nellie Rogers and a life more festive than his lonely holiday. He vows to keep a New Year resolution while craving a homey holiday meal.
The Chicago Journal cites common New Year vows and urges self restraint and kindness. It argues resolutions should focus on truth, fairness, and aiding others, burying old grievances, and embracing a hopeful, unselfish outlook for happiness.
A brief note reveals a man in dire financial straits pleading for a dollar to cover essentials, mentioning unpaid debts and a missed New Year gift to his spouse. The fragment captures a moment of hardship and urgency.
A gullible man claims to have found the key to success, but the fakir corrects him saying his profit came from selling the key, not buying. The chi cago post quote frames the lesson about value creation and selling rather than hoarding wisdom.
On New Year's Day in the Greek church families exchange money gifts. The father gives presents of money to his wife and children, which are carefully saved away.
Dr John Alexander Dowie wept on the witness stand describing his confidence in his brother in law Samuel Stevenson as shaken. He testified he gave Stevenson checks totaling 50000 to settle debts and claimed stock in Zion lace industries later returned to him. Captain Worthington Judd testified on Dowie’s status as Elijah and Zion leader amid court proceedings in Chicago.
In Russellville Alabama Henry Williams and his brother Tom Williams faced City Marshal Ben Barrett and Deputy Sheriff Hargett in a deadly store confrontation. Henry died from a head wound after Barrett shot him. Tom was wounded in the arm and chest while McClurg, a merchant and Tom’s ally, lay fatally wounded.
An early Thursday gas explosion in the Soho furnace of Jones and Laughlin in Pittsburg kills ten men and injures three. The workers on the top of a 120 foot furnace were engulfed as molten metal and flames rained down, with escape via the elevator blocked.
Henry C. Payne and Mrs Payne landed in Milwaukee after traveling from the east. He says President WeKinles offered missions during his term, which he declined. He dismisses rumors of succeeding Senator Hanna as Republican leader, adding no man will rejoice more than Hanna at his appointment.
A Cairo telegram reports petroleum in sand at 2 115 feet near Geb E C Geit by operators for the petroleum syndicate. A gas flow caused an explosion wrecking the boring plants and blocking the well, suggesting oil fields may exist in Egypt.
A three mile from Summerville Jefferson county home burned destroying the Ashbaugh house. John Ashbaugh and four children died, four others injured. The blaze started from an overheated stove as Mrs Ashbaugh jumped from a window with a broken leg. In New York Isaac Gill perished in a Clinton Street sweat shop fire with four others injured. A Zacatecas market house fire in Mexico killed about 45 and injured many as the structure collapsed during salvage efforts.
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