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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1900
Page
3
A Chicago Daily News piece urges city homeowners to transform selfish neglected backyards. It advocates vines over walls, wire netting with perennials, and a kids friendly arbor as a central play space. Planting sunflowers hollyhocks lilacs and bulbs can yield beauty year round.
Mrs. Potter Palmer, sole female commissioner among nations, attends Paris exposition events and lauds Chicago’s influence. She notes France copying Chicago’s exhibit layout and water features while praising American women’s expanding roles in commissions and juries. Mrs. Charles Henrotin named America’s delegate-at-large to mobilize U.S. women's participation.
A Rural World piece urges learning to laugh and tell stories to cheer others. It advises keeping troubles private, avoiding croaking, attending to one’s own affairs, masking aches with a smile, and greeting friends warmly.
A Venango County widow's husband writes a heartfelt card of thanks to the minister choir neighbors sisters and brothers of the various orders and all who assisted in the Stejmes and loss of his wife in the local paper.
Instructions describe ten minute nightly exercises to strengthen and beautify the hand and forearm through bending, stretching, rolling, and finger work. In Russia women are increasingly employed in apothecary shops and favored by physicians with the public.
A recipe tip suggests adding a tablespoon of vinegar to the usual cookie mix to achieve a crisper texture. The note mentions that the crisp result is enjoyed by children.
F G Herman offers a practical method for managing large apiaries. A queen trap placed before swarming keeps the queen separated, allowing swarms to relocate into an empty hive, then rejoin their mass. He describes a homemade swarm catcher using wire, burlap, and a crotched stick to capture and hive the cluster efficiently.
D R Dunihue states hogs should have shelter and space not in close pens, recommends small wind-proof log or board houses for six to eight hogs, and suggests bluegrass as best forage with clover for spring and summer. Rape may replace clover this season.
The article argues silage benefits sheep and other stock, predicting summer use alongside winter. It notes sheep must be trained to eat silage, similar to dairy cows, and that early failures usually lead to abandoning the attempt.
Four warehouse clerks were caught playing a 25 cent limit poker game using coffee grains as chips. The tea and coffee warehouse owner watched, even chewing some grains, and left noting no one protested the loss after the half hour. The banker owner has not yet sorted out his affairs.
An actor touring Ireland recalls a Dublin hotel waiter who jokes that home rule for Ireland would only come if France Russia Germany Austria and possibly Italy unite to “give those blaggards of English a rare ood hiding.” He then adds with a sly smile that the navy is the grand solution. The remark captures Irish sentiment toward Britain and empire.
A Boston parent warns that a child educated at home can acquire vicious habits if exposed to street peers. He recalls allowing Emerson to choose playmates and observes rapid shift to casuistry in the child’s questions after brief exposure to street life.
A San Francisco Bulletin snippet notes forty five trumpeters accompany the king of Abyssinia, yet one man still makes himself heard without sounding his own horn.
Do your feet ache and burn in new shoes Allen's Foot-Ease provides relief. It cures corns itching swelling hot callous and sandals feet. Sold at all druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Free sample offered. Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy NY.
The Chicago Evening News notes a push surrounding a maid marriage promotion described as a Bachelor event. The piece hints at social club interest and public curiosity without detailing outcomes or names.
An assorted ad fragment list advises mailing a notice to Sears Roebuck for binder twine pricing in Chicago and securing lower prices. It includes product pitches for Grain-O coffee substitute, Laxative Bromo Quinine, Pernam FairLess Dyes, and various quotation lines from periodical sources. It ends with Piso's Cure for Consumption testimonials.
The report lists mixed price levels across wheat corn and oats with bids for No 2 red wheat at 78 and May wheat at 36 percent. Butter creamery at 21 cents, cheese at 12 to 12.5, and various potato and beef prices noted. Livestock values show steers 5.10 to 5.70, hogs 4.40 to 5.40, sheep around 4.35 to 5.50, and lambs 5.00 to 7.00 with regional market variations.
An old advertisement bundle offers Halls Catarrh Cure with a 100 dollar reward for incurable cases. It includes testimonials and druggists selling price 75 cents per bottle. Also notes a summer travel region with resorts in Illinois Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan and a Kemp’s Balsam cough remedy with free sample and prices.
A simple dessert solution uses a package of Bupa Hasty Jellycon. Dissolve in boiling water and let it cool for a pure jelly. Flavors include orange lemon strawberry raspberry peach wild cherry and calf foot unflavored for wine and coffee jams. Available from all grocers.
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