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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1902
Page
1
A Syracuse woman keeps Scampa the butterfly as a pet. She found the red brown butterfly near dead in September and nursed it back to health with honey and warmth. Scampa showed surprising behavior and intelligence as it fed and rested, returning to the desk and sleeping nearby.
In campfire reminiscence Col. Hutchinson recounts the career of Gerald Plat a daring Canadian Irish ranger hopeful and adventurer with European training speaking multiple languages and a love affair in Chihuahua Mexico He describes his rise in warlike exploits a near governorship bid and a dramatic episode involving a Spanish bullfighter Del Agar as a test of his resolve and a plan to win a Mexican maiden.
Cafferty and followers watch as the American Flad faces a ferocious bull, ignoring officials and a courting senorita. He ends the fight decisively, then leaves wounded by the crowd’s scorn and later plans a New York departure with the mysterious Ramon del Agar vanished that night.
A narrator recalls visiting two poor, infirm women living in separate rooms. Each tells of the other’s faults while praising the narrator. The upstairs resident calls the lower tenant her rival in friendship, noting their envy and discord, suggesting such fractures extend beyond poverty into higher circles.
The text notes yawning behavior in the monkey tribe and boon family with the Gibraltar apes also yawning. It suggests the gesture to frighten an adversary by showing teeth and that persistent mouth opening can trigger a yawn. It adds that two balloons in a cage confront and yawn when provoked.
The piece lists 88 senators with diverse backgrounds including 26 prior House members and 15 who served as governors. It notes Warren as territorial governor during Wyoming’s statehood, confederate service for 15 senators, one in the Confederate Navy, and nine who served in the Union Army. Pettus of Alabama and Bates of Tennessee are named.
A concise exhortation on fear and belief shaping outcomes. It argues fear drains vitality and blocks success, while confidence and clear plans enable action and victory, urging unwavering resolve and mental preparation to achieve goals.
A child writes about losing her beloved Julia doll when a visiting girl took her and cried to keep it. After a long separation the visitor could not recall the doll, leaving the author feeling sad and indignant about the heartless act.
An excerpt summarizes Henry Rowland’s July McClure’s piece on U S actions in the Philippines. It follows three privates Tom Dick and Harry as they shift from pitying natives to viewing them as beasts and one joins a firing squad that avenges a bush murder.
Rural New Yorker advises planting wax and stringless beans four to six inches apart in rows after frost risk, with two week succession. Start bush and pole beans in hot beds or sunny windows two to three weeks early, plant one inch deep, and use nitrate of soda or saltpeter fertilizer. Bush limas two feet apart, pole beans trained to a single pole, three to four plants around each pole on a raised mound, seven foot poles, vines tied and pinched at the top.
The article lists diseases tied to specific locales. Pellagra in Lombardy from damaged maize has cost over 500 000 peasant lives since 1833. Mandalay ringworm stays in Burma’s old capital. Rock fever in Gibraltar. Maltese fever in Malta in spring and autumn. Aleppo evil in Asia Minor. Delhi boil haunts Delhi, not other cities.
Advertisement notes dyspepsia symptoms including pains nausea dizziness and liver and bowel troubles. Promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as gentle thorough and guaranteed cures. Available at J H Mercer’s and C A Kleim’s drug stores. July 2 4-w.
Sufferers from catarrh in Albert Lea Minnesota report relief after using Ely's Cream Balm. A trial size costs ten cents and full size fifty cents, sold by druggists or mailed by Ely Bros. 56 Warren Street New York. The testimonial quotes K Lansdale praising the product after a severe head cold.
Advice for a bride on securing happiness in marriage urges submission to the husband. It counsels becoming a devoted wife, eating modestly, tending to his needs, guarding his secrets, and adjusting mood to his state, claiming divine blessing for compliance.
The article discusses odor as emanations from tiny particles carried through media like cotton wool. It notes musk failing to alter weight after diffusion and questions whether odor active bodies produce scent ions with electrical properties. The discussion weighs particle size against perceptible scent and eventual electrical behavior.
The article describes irregular lemming migrations in Norway and Sweden. Lemmings, rodent like water rats, move in straight lines toward food, ignoring walls and stacks, swimming rivers, and ending their journey at the seashore before a new cycle begins in seven to seventeen years.
Mrs Louis Cragg of Dorchester Massachusetts faced death from a severe lung trouble and obstinate cough until using Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption. The remedy is endorsed as a guaranteed cure for coughs colds throat and lung trouble by J H Mercer and O A Kleim with 50c and 1.00 pricing and free trial bottles.
The Cumberland Road, built early in the nineteenth century, stretched from Cumberland Maryland through Southwestern Pennsylvania over the Alleghenies to Wheeling West Virginia and on to St. Louis. Henry Clay championed it with a monument near Wheeling. Letters of the era describe daily painted four horse coaches and heavy wagon traffic. Government spending reached 7 million dollars as the road opened vast travel while surrounding land remained wilderness. Freight lines from Baltimore to Wheeling used twelve horses and ten ton loads ten feet wheels.
The quote extols a life of gratitude work love play and awe for the stars. It urges humility honesty kindness neighborly gentleness and daily reflection on Christ as guiding virtues. It frames peace as a path shaped by admirations over disgust and by spending time with both body and spirit outdoors.
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