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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1901
Page
1
The article notes that business counsel and professionals provide services to clients and welcome women and the young, emphasizing accessible expertise. It highlights trust in expert advice across business, medical, and legal matters.
Millionaire Harold Grant sails the Pacific coast aboard the Athene with daughter Nellie and scientists including Frank Leigh and Dr. Haynes. Leigh discovers tales of the manta ray or shroud of the sea while Haynes mocks him and plans a dangerous bathing expedition near a fatal spot.
A reader testifies to relief from itching skin with Head's Sarsaparilla. The letters describe eczema described as salt rheum and credit the remedy with rapid improvement and lasting cure. The account cites a Maryland reader from Cove Point.
Haynes fights a deadly seaweed monster tangled around his boat as Leigh uses jars to burn away the creature. Nellie and Mr. Grant watch on the cliff while Haynes is saved and Leigh is praised for his quick action.
A dialogue fragment questions if the world improves as individuals are urged to help progress. Two speakers debate self improvement versus societal growth, with humorous exchanges about comparing oneself to parents and the broader question of helping the world advance.
A New York World note recalls where presidents rest after death. Washington lies at Mount Vernon while Adams, Quincy Adams lie in Quincy Massachusetts. Jefferson at Monticello, Madison at Montpelier, Monroe in Richmond, Tyler in Richmond. Garfield and McKinley lie in Ohio, Jackson Polk Johnson in Tennessee, Pierce in Concord New Hampshire, Taylor in Louisville, Buchanan near Lancaster, Lincoln in Springfield Illinois, Harrison in Indianapolis.
Dr. D. David L. Tuttle heads a team in a Philadelphia style report that extraordinary mining is underway in the old mint. They search floors ceilings shelves and chimneys for gold and silver including soot from a furnace yielding two and a half percent metals.
A Wisconsin ceremony replaces rice with hydrangeas as guests line the path from house to gate pelting the newlyweds with blossoms. The scene features the bride and groom leaving beneath flowered arches, with jars and vases of hydrangeas throughout the hall and greenery enhancing the decor.
A Walnut furniture dealer notes walnut is coming back in vogue as mahogany fades. He describes a lighter Circassian walnut finish with gold touches and hand carving on plain surfaces. Old walnut frames are being refurbished to suit modern tastes.
The passage notes a curious trend among farmers toward growing earless corn as part of a long line of innovations like horseless carriages and wireless telegraphy. It satirizes tech mania and rural experimentation.
The ad warns about alum baking powders and urges consumers to choose Royal because it is alum free, pure, and healthful for family use, contrasting it with cheaper alum powders. It is attributed to the Royal Baking Powder Co., 100 William Street, New York.
A Lyons Mississippi well 975 feet deep yields two distinct waters. One stream is linked to Lake Michigan underground flow, the other matches Waukesha springs by taste odor and chemistry. Albert Goldsberry of Memphis sunk the well. The two pipes differ in depth, with the Lake Michigan stream emerging deeper.
Homer Hall of West Point Iowa suffered a severe lung cough and was deemed doomed by physicians. He used Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption and says it cured him completely and saved his life. The ad notes weights 227 pounds and offers 50 cent to 1 dollar bottles with free trials at C A Kleim and J H Mercer dated December 4 4-w.
The Woman's Journal profiles Mary Ibrig formerly of Sisterville now in Tyler county. Her oil ventures reportedly earn about 7000 dollars weekly for a month, transforming a shoe business background into successful wild cat drilling. She plans new wells once rigs reach her property and has bought a Parkersburg home to oversee the ventures.
A catalogue of wry maxims about laughter, luck, memory, weather, taxes, romance, aging, and social foibles. It riffs on marriage, wealth, fashion, and gender with a dry, humorous tone. Notable lines touch on Exposition in Buffalo, stock market traps, and the paradoxes of virtue and vanity.
Soldiers from the last war praise Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for scratches bruises cuts wounds corns sprains and stiff joints. It also heals burns scalds boils ulcers and skin eruptions. Cures or no pay at C A Kleim’s and J H Mercer’s drug stores for 25 cents.
The article notes the ants tend a leaf hopper species entilla sinusata on sunflower leaves to harvest honeydew. Ants guard, herd, and manage the leaf hoppers like cattle, moving strays back to the colony and aiding moults and leaf removal as needed.
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