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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1901
Page
1
In 1894 a narrator on business travels through Verona to Venice recalls lodging in a decayed hotel and, after an overnight gondola ride, being seized and taken to a concealed room. A masked troupe and violent guards surround him, hinting at a crime or ritual, as tension rises in the hidden Venetian corridors.
The narrator, Charles Raymond, is mistaken for a Mafia traitor in Verona. He is confronted by a masked leader who apologizes and offers safe return to his hotel after a vow of silence. A Mafia enforcer hints at deadly consequences for breaches of trust and a later Verona jail murder is noted in a paperek.
All who use atomizers in treating nasal catarrh will get the best results from Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price including spraying tube is 75c. Sold by druggists or mailed by Ely Bros. at 56 Warren St New York. New Orleans Sept 1 1900. Message from Gro W McDuff pharmacist confirms two bottles given to Wm Lamberton 1415 Delaware St New Orleans with wonderful results.
Porfirio Diaz rose to national prominence after the battle of Puebla where Liberal forces fought a gallant but doomed stand against the French. The May fifth anniversary became a national Mexican holiday, a point illustrated by Diaz in a quip about celebrating defeats akin to Americans at Bunker Hill.
John Muir argues that giant sequoias create and sustain streams by holding and slowly releasing mountain moisture. He emphasizes that forests store rainfall, reduce evaporation, and calm winds, making water scarce where groves are removed. The piece warns that cutting groves dries streams and harms California irrigation.
Teaching modern languages via phonographs enables correspondence schools to deliver lessons to students far away. A teacher records correct pronunciation, sent with records and blank sheets for students to imitate. Students mail back their attempts for critique. printed lessons supplement, claiming better pronunciation than books.
A trick riddle describes the pansy as a family with a mother and two daughters plus two stepdaughters. The father is hidden in the house under a white wrapper and night cap, sitting in a tub of hot water with a look of despair, waiting to be found by tearing down the house.
The speaker contrasts two cures for sin and cites four Bible expressions on God's treatment of sin. He notes forgiveness removes sins behind His back and as a cloud, in the depths of the sea, and as far as the east is from the west. He urges personal forgiveness through confession.
An English writer promotes outdoor exposure to harden the body against colds and cites morning cold sponging as protective. The ad claims a few doses of 77 will prevent or break up a cold and offers the medicine from Humphreys Homeopathic Medicine Co with free doctor’s book mailed on request.
The Vassar Student Association seeks $20,000 to build and endow a clubhouse for nearly 200 chamber maids, waitresses, and dining room girls. It would offer a meeting place and access to periodicals and books to improve their social condition.
For fine job printing call at the Republican Office. Attorneys and citizens may arrange quality work with prompt service and clear results.
A Victorian advertisement promotes Royal Baking Powder citing purity and wholesome ingredients aiding digestion. It claims products like wood raised by it will not distress and notes hygienists and physicians recommend it for those with delicate digestion. The ad lists Royal Baking Powder Co. at 100 William St New York.
The article describes new food preservation processes including desiccated milk made by spray drying hot air, and dried eggs using rotating wheels in hot air. mentions desiccated soups beef tea and pumpkin powder. It also covers continuous ice cream production on rotating cylinders and a modern method for artificial ice formation with scraped ice cakes.
Soldier letters praise Bucklen's Arnica Salve for scratches, bruises, cuts, burns, boils and skin ailments. It claims to cure or no pay, price 25 cents at OC. A. Kieim's and J. H. Merecer's drug stores, dated December 4.
The article explains ozocerite or crocerite wax found with rock salt and coal in various regions, but profitable mining only in Boryslaw Austrian Galicia and a Caspian coast island. Shafts rise as beds are reached, with galleries connected, noting dangerous pressure and past miner losses. Crocerite is used to produce ceresin for candles phonograph cylinders and related products.
H A Houseal, an engraver, etched the entire alphabet on the head of a common pin in two circular rows around the edge and a central ampersand. The pin head measures about a sixteenth inch, with letters about one fourth the size of those on the Lord's Prayer dollar, completed in about an hour and a half during an afternoon last month.
Homer Hall of West Point Iowa credits Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption related cough relief. After doctors doubted hope he used the remedy and claims a complete cure and weight gain to 227 pounds. Priced at 50 cents and 1.00 with trial bottles free at C A Kleim and J H Mercer.
Varnishing requires a warm room of at least 75 degrees. Lower temps cause milky varnish due to moisture. higher temps delay precipitation until alcohol evaporates. Water should not contact varnished furniture. use oil only for cleaning unvarnished wood.
The Cowthorpe oak is England's largest tree with over 1,600 years of age. Its branches cover half an acre, and the base circumference was 78 feet at the end of the seventeenth century. Earth fill supports the trunk now. Estimated timber: 73 tons.
A terse maxim on diligence. The saying urges steady, small efforts to yield eventual rewards and long term success. It emphasizes habit, patience, and incremental progress as keys to larger outcomes.
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