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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1897
Page
3
A reflective meditation on aging and loss as years pass. The speaker notes each year brings deeper sorrow, fading love, and diminishing brightness, yet ends with a hopeful faith in an immortal dawn and release from earthly burdens with the memory of loved ones.
The author notes he may not be charged with plagiarism and thanks Allan Quatermain for the transport idea used to move the hero to an inaccessible country by a remarkable method. He does not claim literary rank for the work but hopes readers find value in this first venture into fiction.
A survey party in southwestern Kansas in winter 1870 befriended a mysterious six foot trapper who spoke of distant places from Manitoba to Mexico. He shared vast knowledge of the Rockies and western history, yet kept his past hidden, remaining aloof, rarely dining or sleeping with the party, and vanishing each morning after long nights by the fire.
An unnamed narrator recounts leaving a loner hunter to return to civilization, while he and a loyal friend press west from Pike's Peak toward Southern California. They endure harsh wilderness, endure heat, cross a vast desert, and reflect on encounters with peaceful Indigenous peoples, before continuing their perilous trek on the known unknown.
Joseph Bronson recalls his Virginia birth in 1780 and a life of exploration from Roanoke County to becoming a schoolmaster then a hunter. He travels with Lewis and Clark during their expedition, arriving in St. Louis in 1804, and continues with a companion to remain in the Rocky Mountains beyond the expedition’s main party.
Instructions from the Philadelphia Times on turning old fabrics into new boys garments. Emphasizes patterns, lining for pants, pockets, basting, fitting, sewing, pressing, and finishing with heavy inner strip and buttonholes. Notes pants are easier than coats and require careful basting and thorough pressing for quality results.
Eben E Rexford in the new floral journal How to Grow Flowers cautions flower growers, especially for house plants, against giving too much water during dormancy. Overwatering harms roots. ensure drainage and wait for the soil surface to look dirty before watering enough to saturate the soil.
A narrator recalls Cholmondely a refined society figure who employs espionage and blackmail to recover stolen papers. A ploy leads him to counterfeit a crime scene to trap a government agent, seize the dispatches, and expose a pair of conspirators in court, revealing Cholmondely’s clever method.
A New York Sun description details an elevated rail lamp lighter who carries an alcohol lamp in a brass cylinder. He lights six car lamps with practiced ease, extinguishes, pockets the lamp, then exits to the platform to board the next train, ready to restart the task.
Oranges cool the blood and gargling with cold water strengthens the throat. Bathing the eyes with cold tea helps eyes. A slice of lemon and a nail brush keep nails dainty. Coconut oil darkens and grows eyebrows. Sweet almond oil strengthens and grows eyelashes. A hair lotion uses borax tincture cantharides rosemary oil and rose water. A gray hair preventer mixes sulphur glycerine tincture cantharides quinine sulphur and bay rum applied nightly with a sponge.
In a Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph quip Mrs Bellefield questions a grown acquaintance she says she picked up today after he had slipped on a slippery pavement. The exchange highlights a playful streetwise humor in the airing of a small urban moment.
A statesman instructs a new senator on courtesy noting a nuisance of senatorial decorum. The elder warns that it is bad form for a colleague to sleep through a speech without leaving the room, a delicate but pointed social rule.
A brief society note depicts a scene where one person asks for money after a rejected proposal while another responds with kindness promising friendship. The dialogue centers on the tension between friendship and financial request. The piece captures early 20th century social dynamics and the informal tone of Philadelphia gossip columns.
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