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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1900
Page
7
A New York Commercial Advertiser piece argues charity should start with servants. It describes a second floor parlor where maids entertain friends, featuring denim walls, rugs, curtains, shelves, and modest cost. The room fosters disciplined, polite service and may steer callers toward better behavior.
A Tacoma church uses a 500 year old Douglas fir stump as its steeple with a bell from St. Peter's Philadelphia. The primitive chapel sits beside the tree in a 1870s lumber camp. Bishop Morris of Oregon oversaw its tiny church, St Peter's Episcopal. Ivy climbs the trunk and a rickety ladder provides access to the belfry.
Mrs. William Bell Lowe of Atlanta has been named honorary president for America of the Woman’s Board of the Paris exposition. As longtime leader of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs she helped spread club ideas across the South and led the federation since 1898. She is noted for philanthropy, hospitality, and stylish presence in Atlanta society.
A short verse offers a cautionary bridal rhyme linking wedding dress colors to fate. The playful but grim verse warns of different outcomes tied to color choices such as white gray black red green blue pearl yellow brown pink, reflecting superstition and social norms of marriage.
The bride receives social honors through various showers before her wedding. Linens, books, teaspoons, plates, or sofa pillows are given as gifts at luncheons or breakfasts. A rose shower involves bursting a tissue bag of rose petals atop the departing bride for rosy future hopes.
Selection of houseplant care guidance from Ladies' Home Journal detailing bulb bloom issues for Tuerose, Pansies in the House, soil mixes for Palms, heliotrope and carnations watering, and conditions for Euonymus Rex begonias roses primula obconica and daily watering to avoid drying out, with emphasis on drainage, air, moisture, and light.
Industrial progress shows Hamburg adding 40 steamers to reach 436. Michigan produced 4,759,253 barrels of salt, up 587,337 from 1898. British shipyards could build a large steamship daily. Missouri-Kansas mining output reached nearly 11 million dollars, up 3 million from 1898. One third of US paper in H1 1899 fed newspaper plants. Mexican capitalists plan four or five cotton mills at Atotonilco San Martin Torreon. Sault Ste Marie canal tonnage in eight months equals twice Suez in a year. China warns Great Wall defense as it eyes Western engineering.
Necessity spurs progress and a willful mind shapes the world. A person with an idea changes history by seizing opportunity. Find a way or make one and begin with commitment to your work. A great chance exposes you only if you are prepared and ready.
A Philadelphia Record item recounts a theater worker recalling a boy who asked if tickets were good and received torn front row passes. The tale pivots on a quarrel over over $100 for provisions and a mother’s warning, with tickets salvaged and an exchange planned for Saturday. The anecdote shows domestic chaos spilling into a matinee plan.
Fragmentary OCR notes discuss barnacle buildup on sea cables and mention Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for indigestion and dyspepsia. The text references cable laying investigations in the ocean and generic health claims, with limited readable detail.
The Argonaut quotes Mr. Eddy defending his image in a sharp campaign moment. It notes critics said he was double-faced, to which Eddy quips that if he had two faces he would not display the one shown. The report labels him the homeliest man in Congress.
A Minnesota farmer writes to Benj Davis Canadian Government Agent at St Paul detailing western Canada land rush. He notes thriving settlement near Dale’sboro Assa with 25 vacant quarter sections filled, new houses rising, plans for a church, and improved prospects for crops. He recalls earlier blues, land seekers, and a hostile man who later found a home, ending with a plea to aid Arthur Finney and his family and to keep in touch from St Paul.
A Kansas University English professor posted a notice about self conversation with students. The next morning the same notice appeared rewritten suggesting whispering to oneself as much as possible. The Chronicle reports the odd exchange between faculty and students.
Frank J. Cheney swears he is the penio c partner of F J Cheney Co doing business in Toledo Ohio and that he will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason signs seal December 6 1886. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and reaches the blood. Sold by druggists 75c. Family Pals the best.
Fragmentary text from a Chicago Daily News page shows stray phrases about a pocketbook sting, a cold cure ad line promising refunds, and scattered names and locations including LeRoy Michigan, October 20, 1894. The readable bits hint at era advertising and public notices but are highly incomplete.
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