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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1897
Page
6
Poem fragment from Ladies' World inviting readers to the Land of Dreams or Lotus land a mystic distant realm of sunlit streams crystal waters and eternal youth. It questions weariness and longing and suggests meeting old friends and walking shores of Fancy's stream with perpetual delight.
Dorothy Meredith confronts conflict in a frontier town as Harvey Neil’s fate hangs on legal battles over the Mascot mine. Nearby, townsfolk gossip, possible schemes unfold, and Dorothy wrestles with loyalty to her father versus sympathy for Neil amid mounting tensions.
A fragment from Youth's Companion recounts Harriet Martineau and W Field, both deaf to questions. a founder’s unbecoming crotchets in founding a college. an educator’s ruined career after a careless cleric reads a private letter and spoils plans. A tale of misplaced trust and moral lapses ends with the educator’s death.
A Chicago Tribune excerpt extols a massage bath combining hydraulic water jets and electric current to stimulate skin pores, muscles, and vital organs. It claims deep cleansing, spinal kneading, and overall invigoration with high temperature water, followed by alcohol spray to prevent cold, presenting the method as a household luxury for women.
In a chapter scene a western town ends at Windy Gulch where a dusty road splits toward the Old Silver trail and mining camps. Abandoned ore processing buildings and ruins mark past mining hopes as a cottonwood grove offers a rare touch of beauty while lovers stroll the shaded road on Sundays.
A hesitant reconciliation unfolds between Miss Meredith and Meredith as they discuss the dispute over her father's alleged financial crime. He admits regret since their reunion, and she urges a direct talk with her father to settle the matter and avoid more legal actions.
A playful exchange between Hom and Cleveland Leeder features a couple imagining shipwreck on a deserted island. He asks about companionship, she jokes the island size matters, and he settles beside her as they declare their love while light banter hints at longing and humor.
A Detroit Free Press reflection notes that joys and griefs stem from the same life energy. Roses reveal sweetness amid thorns while thorns guard the roses, both growing from the same fertile soil and root. The passage frames love as the source of both happiness and pain in human life.
The Cincinnati Enquirer notes North Frisians punish unmarried people after death with a legend where old maids cut stars from the sun at sunset while lingering bachelors' ghosts repair them in the sky, lamp-lighters chased by phantoms through the night.
In Brooklyn every little girl wears a checked muslin or India lawn apron with three parts waist skirt sleeves and a back bow. The fashion is tied to cleanliness and neatness, reflecting Li Hung Chang’s admiration for a Brooklyn child. Also tips on cleaning linoleum with lukewarm water soft cloth and milk and water, plus using lemon or orange peel to deodorize knives and forks.
Miss Mary Matilda McLean of Oakland California becomes an assistant instructor in English literature at Stanford University. At 25 she is noted for serious temperament, strong study record at UC Berkeley and Cambridge, Oxford annex, Berlin, and European study. She will start with freshmen and sophomores, correcting themes, with later duties expanding to full assistant professor status.
Plum puffs made from corked ripe plums that peel easily when scalded. Prepare batter with flour, salt, baking powder, eggs, milk, and folded plum pieces. Steam half an hour, serve with stewed sweetened plums as sauce. Toledo Blade recipe note.
A Parisian dress maker will not fit over a newly starched corset as starch keeps shape until worn. After a few outings the corset loosens and the bodice no longer matches, causing waist bags and wrinkles. The dressmaker bears the blame for the poor fit.
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