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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1900
Page
3
The article portrays Samoan girls as coquettes and athletes, noting shark tooth necklaces as status, lava lava skirts, and bare limbs. It contrasts native dress with tourist influences and admires their dancing, embroidery, music, and social norms including arranged marriage.
A youthful bride tore years of engagement letters into small bits and stitched them into an embroidered covering for a pillow. The method preserves the memories while keeping the letters from being burned or lost.
The U S consul in Birmingham reports an unusual event as the board of trade opens an inquiry into the shipping trust. The investigation aims to determine if the trust damages British industry and markets.
The piece from Demorest’s Family Magazine praises Mrs McKinley and her winter gowns. It notes her caregiving, her seated receptions, and selects a silver gray peau de soie dress with a long front train, steel embroidery, and lace jabot. It emphasizes taste and graceful drape.
Instructions describe cleaning methods for diamonds opals silver and oxidized silver using soap lather water rinses sawdust salt alum saltpeter and various polishing agents. It notes wearing silver in silver paper and cautions on drying and finishing with leather across diverse materials including amber ivory nickel and brass.
The article cautions against constant washing as it roughens skin and recommends thorough washing every four days. It offers a homemade virginal mixture with rose water benzoin myrrh tinctures and glycerine as a clarifying rinse and warns against full glycerine use on the face. It notes some skins cannot tolerate glycerine and suggests omitting it. The Queen's Ice Chest reveals Windsor Osbourne and Balmoral castles hold about 500 tons of ice for royal kitchens and cooling rooms.
The author describes storing his manuscripts in two fireproof warehouses of 20 by 60 feet and four stories, arguing higher initial costs are offset by lower insurance and taxes. He believes a future gold mine awaits when publishers seek his work, stored on corners for easy access.
In an Atlanta Constitution reprint, a deacon stops a dissenting brother during a church discussion about Moses and Joshua. The altercation escalates as the deacon sweeps the man to the door, insisting the phrase was spoken by him. The older brethren hesitate to correct him.
A shopper challenges a clerk over a $2.50 price tag during the holidays. The salesman explains the marked-down sale had begun, noting a prior price of $2.20. The exchange highlights holiday discount activity in the shop.
A local judge recalls Clancy narrowly escaping danger as Moriarty jokes about his talk and legs, while the courtroom banter highlights the wit and pace of the exchange.
An old advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be helped by local treatments. It offers one hundred dollars for any catarrh deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and promotes the product plus Hall's Family Pills, with Toledo based Fr. Cheney & Co. as sellers.
A brief exchange notes how a single word can alter a person’s mood and appearance. The dialogue uses a wife’s morning reaction to reading the paper, with the punch line that the word Bargains shifts her energy.
Many cannot drink coffee at night as it spoils sleep. Grain-O looks and tastes like coffee but does not stimulate. It nourishes and cheers, making Grain-O the perfect drink for nervous people, youths, and children. Made from pure grains, available 15 and 25 cents at grocers.
A Paris shop clerk quotes twenty francs for a silver brooch and an American traveler, convinced of overcharging, offers five francs. The clerk quips in French about the gift for his sister and not knowing the young lady. The exchange highlights travel misgivings in the Chicago Chronicle.
A brief note from the St. Louis Star quotes a proverb on energy and hustle. The piece suggests that deliberate, steady effort shortens delays and yields results.
A collage of medical claims and product notices inclining drug ads for Acceaeanys Acts with liver and kidney notes, Kemp's Balsam and Jay Croup cure claims, a Sunlight potato plug, and catalog request from Salter Seed Co. plus assorted quotations and testimonials.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers double daily sleeping car service from Cincinnati Louisville Chicago and St. Louis to Jacksonville and interior Florida, continuing to Miami Tampa and New Orleans as ports for voyages to Florida Cuba Porto Rico Central America and Nassau. For folders write Jackson Smth D P A Cincinnati O.
Dialogue from a period comic exchange where Mammy rejects marriage to Sam Johnson and Dinah questions the suitor. Puck quips that the suitor is as crazy about fine dress as a man with watermillion wealth.
The John A Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin shipped twenty thousand bushels of seed potatoes to Alabama Florida, Texas and other southern points. The company is described as the largest grower of seed potatoes and farm seeds in the world.
A Chicago Dispatch quips about rail lines, noting the Dusen and Crescent routes to Asheville and a Pullman line to Florida. The item brushes on travel mentions and a pointed proverb about brightening a home amid hardship.
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