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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1897
Page
2
A reflective verse in plain speech critiques crowding by the powerful and the poor man’s burden. It questions material hoarding and the fate of workers, calling for a fair share of the earth and warning against deathly grind for heirs amid rising tech and status.
Fire devastates the Mascot mine site as a boiler-house explosion traps workers. Neil races to rescue, while Dorothy wrestles with loyalty to her father and her forbidden love. The body count rises when Colonel Randolph Meredith is found dead, and Dorothy faces a grim, life altering aftermath.
In Wiesbaden a young doctor Gustav Lange challenged Otto von Bismarck after a glare at a dance hall. The sides chose a Hessen meeting, but Bismarck offered peace by shaking Lange’s hand and ending the quarrel. Lange later recalled the incident with humor.
In a chapter of hardship and barely concealed grief, a man named Neil endures a grim exchange with a kindly camp woman. She comforts him while revealing a girl’s unfounded prejudice rooted in watches. Neil, weary, accepts responsibility and rejection alike, choosing remain by the Mascot camp as plans unfold.
A woman asks for her photograph, written with girlish folly and regret. The reply arrives next day, declining to retrieve the image but offering to return the man’s entire collection of over 600 works, with the request that she keep her own, shipped at his expense.
A humorous society quip from New York Weakly describes an old hen who hatched a duckling and must care for it because it belongs to their "wet," implying reluctant domestic mercy. The wry exchange highlights small household tensions and comic intrusion into parlor life.
Practical guide for inexperienced housekeepers on making and applying poultices and plasters. It covers mustard pastes flaxseed bread and milk Indian meal slippery elm and charcoal additions, heat and layering, changing frequency, and cautions to avoid burns or overdrawing. ©N. Y. Tribune
A Philadelphia woman uses a small hall bedroom as a greenhouse to grow early strawberries, lettuce, radishes, and cucumbers. Boxes line five shelves with densely planted strawberry plants nourished by rich soil and heat. Buds appear in January and berries ripen by February or March, offering a reliable crop when winter flowers fail.
Guidance urges never folding a damp towel back to the rack. If a towel is reused, air dry in sunshine and fresh air, or near a hot air register on rainy days to ensure proper drying.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat notes a romance where a maiden and her partner share affectionate terms. When the mother overhears a first name and scolds, the daughter replies with loving epithets Marie Dearest Dear Heart Darling. The mother faints, then regrets her prudish stance against modern ideas.
A New York Tribune inspired guide explains making flower doilies from fine ecru grass cloth with pink silk petals and delicate floss shading. It notes using glass panes to trace patterns for flat designs and suggests adapting the hollyhock motif to roses, pansies, or sunflowers.
The article extols soda for home use noting its value in brightening tinware when rubbed with a damp cloth, preserving green vegetables colors when boiled with them, cleaning lamp smoke stained ceilings, cleaning lamp chimneys, and keeping cut flowers fresher by adding a bit of soda to their water receptacles.
Ada Hammond, born in Cheltenham, has spent nine years as an auctioneer. Her recent sale at Myddelton Hall marked her London debut after working in provincial towns. She is enthusiastic about the profession and has achieved notable success.
Report describes early blade instruction among wild Caucasus tribes where children learn to stab water without a splash and endure rigorous practice to master the dagger from a young age.
A brief Chicago News quotation contrasts discouragement with hope, noting the speaker’s feeling of enduring bad luck and a reminder that life offers possibility despite hardships.
A historic note suggests a severe coughing spell can be arrested by a teaspoonful of glycerine in a wineglass of hot milk. The wording reflects period home remedy guidance with a simple hot-milk vehicle for the syrup.
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