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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1899
Page
2
A sentimental verse from the Chicago Record extols returning home to a wife. The speaker contrasts home with toil and distant worlds, praising the wife’s touch, voice, and praise as the ultimate happiness. The piece ends with a refrain of homeward devotion.
Fannie McLane visits Fort Sedgwick as Merriam’s guarded wife and Florence Merriam entwine in a web of love, betrayal, and danger. A missing Florence triggers a cavalry pursuit across the Santa Clara foothills led by Captain Grafton, while Merriam and Fanny confront a grim fate and a dramatic, interconnected tragedy.
Col Buxton and others visit the house between stables and retreat to check on Randy. The doctor orders no visitors while he tries to ease the patient into sleep after a grueling day of pain. Florence hopes to be with him but is kept away. Fanny McLane demands access, while Mrs Grafton firmly denies any visit from Merriam against the physician’s wishes.
In Buxtons Ward the hospital staff expect a routine sleep for Randy after a night vigil but Mrs McLane’s drastic act upsets plans. Florence’s ominous note is moved to the mantel as Merriam may learn the truth. Dr Leavitt and attendants brace for a difficult revelation and a potential early awakening.
Godey’s Magazine recounts Nat Turner, born 1801, who led a famed 1831 slave uprising in Southampton County Virginia. The narrative details his visions, midnight woods meetings, the gruesome killings of Travis family members, the swift white mobilization at Jerusalem, and Turner's capture after a failed insurrection.
Cable dispatches say Verona’s Juliet tomb will be restored and a magnificent structure built around it. The legend’s roots trace from Masuccio to Bandello and Brooke, with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet rising as the enduring tale from a centuries old love story.
Only Randy and Hop Ling witnessed the incident. Hop Ling struggled to explain the situation, and Randy remained reluctant to speak for a long time. The moment has passed and the event will be continued.
A reflective piece cites Dr Philip Schaff and Sir Isaac Newton on humility and toil. It compares Schaff’s claim of hard work to Newton’s wishful modesty and his seashore metaphor about discovering pebbles and shells while truth lies vast beyond. The excerpt ends with Youth's Companion highlighting Newton's lifelong quest.
A dialogue fragment features Willie Washington describing a woman as frigid in her manner. The reply concedes the claim yet claims to hold a heart of gold while noting the difficulty of reaching her through a conversational Chilkat pass.
A humorous note from Brooklyn Life ponders a smoker's chest pain after finishing a box of cigars his wife gave for Christmas. The piece questions the cause of eshbbage heart and reflects on the reader's health concern.
A young housekeeper can save by buying plain hemstitched or fringed tray and carver cloths. Em embroideries not needed as these renew easily and launder well. An experienced housekeeper repurposes worn fine tablecloths into a set of cloths, or hems with linen torchon edge for neat finish.
Household tips cover cleaning enamelware with chloride of lime and boiling water, whitening linen with yellow soap paste, drying and sun drying stained fabrics, preserving eggs with lime and salt in a box, and quick stamp adhesion by moistening the stamp. Also notes paraffin on table marks, and grinding old scissors on a glass bottle neck.
The article notes higher glove prices as fashion turns to deeper pockets for kid colors. Street gloves now match gowns with white bands and two materials, kid below the wrist and brocaded satin above. Embroidered gloves suit satin gowns but remain a luxury for most, while evening gloves feature matched colors and refined details.
A luncheon drink uses undiluted orange juice treated with fruit. Four banana slices a seeded Tokay grape a tart apple slice and a pinch of sugar are dropped into each tall glass. A preserved cherry and peach slice or similar fruit may accompany the drink.
Perfume burners in demand as a new fad. Small glass lamps hold carbon tips at the wick center. A violet scented perfume is burned briefly to heat the carbon, then extinguished sending violets’ fragrance through the house.
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