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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1901
Page
1
In a village tale, Maria Fairchild prepares for a February 16 auction to clear her late father Squire Fairchild's estate. Rumors swirl about Jed Tompkins and Maria's future as wealth fades, while she cleans the house and fixes up furnishings to attract buyers.
Maria Fairchild fights to save a family stove from sale at a squire's estate auction. Jed Tompkins arrives with a pledge to protect Maria and her inheritance while workers sell off dishes, tools, and a parlor fire. The scene mixes memory, love, and a promise of future settlement.
A steamship line reports mattress collapses blamed on hat pins and safety pins stabbed into air filled berths. Maids inflate dozens of mattresses after each voyage while officials uncover pin mischief, prompting a notice to passengers not to stick pins in cushions or mats.
A Bombay correspondent in the Chicago Record-Herald recounts how Indians misread a telegram about the German emperor’s presence near Osborne and the Prince of Wales, sparking belief he would claim the English crown. Rumors spread that succession fights would ensue upon the queen’s death, with locals speculating the emperor would strike at Portsmouth after the funeral.
The London Chronicle notes that except for one exception, no successor has surpassed or even neared the present king in age. It contrasts Saxon and Danish reigns with short lives, cites Alfred the Great dying at 52 after 30 years on the throne, and mentions Elizabeth I ascending at 26. It highlights Hanover longevity, with George I dying at 67 as the youngest, and William IV and George IV entering throne years later but still older than the king.
W J Spratley argues in a letter to The Institute and Lecturers' Gazette that Hurrah or Hoorah derives from Egyptian HooRa and means For God king and country. He cites Sa-p a Ra-ta-y meaning Son of Heaven and emperor of the world, linking the Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay refrain to ancient roots.
Mrs Haviland from Armonk New York writes of saving her daughter from a near fatal whooping cough and bronchitis using Dr King’s New Discovery. The note claims the medicine cures throat and lung diseases and offers trial bottles free. It also mentions an unrelated fact about cinchona bark and quinine extraction.
The Adirondack and Catskill regions become vast public holdings in New York with 946,888 acres in Adirondack Park and 56,000 acres in the Catskills. The state plans compulsory survey and forestry to protect river headwaters while areas are left to revert to wild conditions, preserving historic battlefronts along lakes and rivers from Ontario to the Hudson. Champlain and St Lawrence areas become fish preserves and pleasure waterways under state supervision.
An ad notes Ely's Cream Balm cleanses soothes and heals nasal membranes without drying or irritating. It claims immediate relief after application and offers 50 cents at druggists or by mail from Ely Brothers New York.
A quotation from S. S. Times urges men to see extraordinary difficulties as calls to effort. It contrasts wavering at the ditch with charging forward and applying radical, persistent work, especially in teaching restless Sun day school boys. The message honors perseverance as victory.
An Austrian inventor has patented a speaking clock using a phonograph in place of the striking mechanism. The device can utter a chosen sentence at any hour, serving as a reminder to perform hourly duties. It can be set for many exhortations and will not forget as long as the clock is wound.
A Boston man who married a ill wealthy young woman now cheers as Dr King’s New Life Pills restore her to health. The pills claim cures for jaundice biliousness malaria fever and ague liver and stomach troubles. Only 25 cents at C A Kleir and J H Mercer’s drug store. June 6.
A fragmented notice describes sawpost use in Scotland to sow extent for floor cloth and linoleum, noting heavy stained materials replacing paper, coarse wrapping paper on board, coal ash for domestic use, mixing with melted resin, and a subscription for the Republicar.
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