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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
2
A Farm Journal poem by Iddings echoes rural life. The speaker praises a modest farm and a lad, finding joy in sunlit fields, wind, birds, and family. Contentment outweighs wealth as children laugh, a farmer’s kiss, and shared devotion anchor daily life.
A stirring Army life tale set in the Philippines, authored by F. Tennyson Neely. Copyright 2899 presents a vivid account of service, discipline, and frontline experiences in a distant posting.
In August heat at the Presidio a hard edged colonel nicknamed Squeers limits joy, while veteran troops and a lively subalterns clash with the harsh schoolmasterly rule. Private Noonan notes the tension as two months of drill shape a brigade under wary command.
Lieutenant Gray pursues a coveted view as Col Armstrong and Amy Lawrence depart for a review while Canker wrestles with guilt and discipline. A prison escape plot threads through camp life, hinting at debts of honor and impending consequences in a sunlit August dawn.
A chemist recalls puzzling requests from parents and guardians who sent children to buy odd items. The letters describe misheard words and strange phrases such as two fitless powders for a groan up adult, Auntie Toxyn for a garbled baby’s throat, and an extinguisher paid for with sixpence.
A regiment captain in Natal pays his company with a Transvaal half crown bearing President Kruger’s image. A soldier reports it as fake, the captain tests it by ringing it and decides it passes in the canteen. The soldier jokes that the queen has whiskers.
A fragment recounts James Smithson capturing a woman's tear in a vial and proving microcosmic salt. The piece also includes a brief exchange with a lawyer about clearing a man who knows everyone in town, highlighting social ties and cautious doubt.
A quirky exchange from the Boston Courier notes Benedict glancing heavenward at 2 a.m. and foreseeing a brewing storm. A bachelor replies that bachelors know nothing of such sensations. The brief item captures a playful moment linking celestial omens to nightlife chatter.
The lesson covers Matthew's call and the feast at his house with publicans and sinners. It contrasts Jesus fellowship with the sick to Pharisee opposition, explains fasting, and uses a parable on new cloth and new wine to show contrasts between old forms and new grace.
Sanitarians warn the dire epidemic is traced to rotting paper layers sealed with paste in homes. The rotting matter fosters germs. experts urge replacing with Alabastine rock base cement, which seals walls, serves as a safe disinfectant, and makes rooms habitable again.
A nameless U S House member meets a newspaper correspondent in a lobby to seek a confident answer about the term Colophon. He notes the Bible phrase Dan to Beersheba and asks who Colophon was while a chewing tobacco scene unfolds.
In a Memphis streetcar a massive three decked cake causes a room full of women to buzz about a forthcoming wedding. A Black porter explains the cake is for a cake walk not a wedding, ending the suspense and restoring chatter.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recalls a sermon in which Deacon White is repeatedly asked to lead the prayer, only to wake and admit, “I just dealt.” The scene turns humorous as the crowd watches the drowsy deacon respond with a quip rather than action.
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