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Newspaper
Carthage Record
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1897
Page
6
A nostalgic monologue recalls a mother's simple barbering for a boy, contrasting it with modern shop frills and scents. The speaker laments changing times and prefers plain care over new gimmicks, reflecting on childhood memories and fashion. Narration attributed to Nixon Waterman in L A W Bulletin.
A Colorado mining camp once quiet becomes a battleground as a union drives wage and hour demands at the Mascot and Windy Gulch mines. Harvey Neil resists while cross suits with Col. Meredith unfold amid threats, dynamite, and tense legal action. A young woman rides the Old Silver trail amid a thunderstorm toward an uncertain fate as events unfold.
Dorothy Meredith lingers along Gem Lake admiring a foreboding landscape as a four o’clock meeting with her father at the Grubstake shaft house looms, the scene rich with wild beauty and ominous clouds. Her mood shifts between duty and a perilous, secret longing.
A sudden jerk causes Miss Meredith to fall as a saddle horn catches her skirt. She barely rises, soothed by a stranger rider who calls her by name and offers help. The horse struggles, feared to have a broken leg, as the scene ends with the note [TO BE CONTINUED].
A report excerpt from the St. Louis Republic explains early marriage under Anglo Saxon and Danish rule, where guardians fixed the price for consent and the suitor paid to win a wife. It describes guardian roles, compensation, and the consequences of fraud or breach, noting the legal system protected a woman through her mundbora.
In a San Francisco Argonaut tale a Pensacola ship fights a South Seas gale off Honolulu. Carpenter McGloin, seasick and wary, is pressed to climb the foretop to inspect the mast. He begs not to, lamenting he would walk home by a four inch plank to Brooklyn.
A missionary convention prayer praised divine power and thanked God for His care of missionaries abroad. The speaker extolled creation and motion, noting Earth's rotation and the balance of forces, marveling that no missionary has yet been lost to space.
A Chicago Chronicle item describes a party game called character quotations. Players pass signed papers around a circle, each writing a poem inspired observation about the owner. The final reader then matches each verse to the writer, revealing social traits and sparking playful punishment.
The piece describes silver and gold sport themed trinkets including a silver bicycle brooch with gem tires and inscribed handlebars, a fox head hunting horn ring with a scarlet enamel horn, and a gold bracelet with a curled golf stick and pearl ball. It notes imitation versions as satisfactory for those buying for leisure or novelty jewelry.
Begin with young plants and avoid over potting. Use clean pots, good drainage, open rich fibrous soil, and light watering. Ferns like moisture but not soaking roots. maidenhair and gold and silver ferns dislike overhead splashes and direct hot sun. Water when the soil looks dry to fully soak the root ball.
A female inventor creates an iron, felt lined case to be fixed to theater floors in front of seats. The rounded top prevents trips. Women slip their feet into the casings as men rise, allowing safe passage without harm to the women.
The landlady at table hosts a conundrum about Mr Binks and the cake. She smiles and says the cake is a little short tonight. Mr Binks blushes as guests rise to the joke and he decides to move on.
A Berlin firm introduces a combined telephone and electric bell for short distances. An egg shaped dining room unit serves as the transmitter while a kitchen unit provides a bell and receiver. The mic membrane and a small magnet form the core, enabling whisper orders to the cook. The kit with 250 feet of wire sells for about eight dollars.
A column urges women to couple beauty routines with diet to achieve clear skin. It warns against floury foods, pastries, alcohol, narcotics, and stimulants while praising whole wheat bread, toast, acid fruits, green vegetables, milk, and eggs as complexion helpers. Red meat is advised in moderation for a brilliant complexion.
The guide describes gripping the umbrella with the right hand at the tips of the ribs and using the left hand to straighten folds. It explains rolling from the top to the tie, distributing rib ends, and buttoning or toning the tie to achieve a tight, factory-like finish.
Instructions for six custards. melt sugar to caramel in cups, then mix three eggs with sugar vanilla and milk, pour over caramel, bake in a water bath 15 minutes, turn while hot, serve cold.
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