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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1902
Page
1
The article argues that cleanliness boosts health, especially in summer, and public baths in cities like Boston reduce hospital costs. It notes New York tenements with few bathrooms prompt public bath facilities, improving health and lowering medical fees, while bathrooms become essential in homes and a preventive measure for sunstroke and colds.
An old Chicago dry goods merchant Nathaniel Stewart faces a demanding debt scare involving Potter Palmer Levi Z Leiter and Marshall Field. Palmer offers to buy 110000 dollars of goods on credit but Stewart balks. Palmer reveals cash, laying 110000 in bills on Stewart's desk, demanding receipt and shipment.
The piece argues cruelty to animals should be fought with preventive methods focused on children. It urges publishing offenders names, using stories of kindness, and forming youth clubs to nurture compassion, aligning with humane society efforts and school library programs.
Mr Jobson returns home to find his wife away for ten days with his house tight and his nerves on edge. He recalls the note she left and the longing for companionship clashes with loneliness as he grapples with the change in routine.
After a tense exchange with Mrs Jobson the next day he wired for help claiming pneumonia threatened him. She returns to care for him, then he recovers, gets up, eats breakfast, and goes to work whistling.
The piece notes J. P. Morgan George Gould and Cornelius Vanderbilt joining a numismatists society and jokes about Pierpont Morgan’s kennels. It also recalls Justice Putnam’s reply to a wealthy youth, Cornelius Vanderbilt’s railroad work, Cecil Rhodes stories, and a blunt Kaiser Rhodes exchange about Africa and foreign affairs.
A veteran cites that college helps some and hinders others, but a young man entering business should master readable handwriting, correct spelling, clear English, a solid business letter, quick addition, proper receipts, advertisement copy, and accurate promissory notes including interest and discount calculations.
A fragment summarizes Frank C Bostock's views on animal training from Frank Leslie's Monthly. He stresses warming to the animal, fair treatment, and learning from the animal, citing a London tigress calmed by patience and surgery, allowing safe entry after.
Businessmen in Manti offer 100 dollars for 100 bushels of grasshoppers, with a young worker able to sack two bushels daily for about two dollars. Ephraim reports a new device for catching hoppers, a 3 by 12 foot frame with a cone bag pulled by a pony, capturing three bushels in under thirty minutes on lucern and grass land.
The article recounts comic medieval homage customs across France Austria and Franconia. Peasants offered a canary bird, vassals gave two pots of files on St Martin’s day, a grasshopper was sent to a lord, and abbots were welcomed by Harlequin dress with servitors serving wine. The lord of Pace demanded access to Saumer women on Trinity day with fines and roses, while refusals could result in a needle branding.
A testimonial from Rev R M Bentley in Rushville Indiana praises Ely's Cream Balm as permanent relief for catarrh and hay fever after eight years of use. The ad urges a 10 cent trial and notes full size is 50 cents with mail order from Ely Bases, 56 Warren St New York.
An organizer of the Chautauqua bureau proposed Senator Hanna for a series of 18 lectures across the South and Midwest offering $10,000. The Ohio senator declined, noting the sum equals his two year Senate salary and could be earned in a single month on the circuit.
The article notes perfume balls used as charms for neckchains and bracelets. It highlights almond, six pear, and apple shapes encrusted with diamonds.
The division of entomology at the Department of Agriculture plans extensive silk culture research this summer. It has imported silkworm eggs from Southern France, stored in gauze bags, and will hatch them in warm sunlit offices. Congress nears a $10,000 appropriation for silk culture investigation and promotion. Dr Howard will travel to France and Italy to buy more eggs for distribution to farmers in the South.
An old advertise style note touts Dr. King's New Life Pills to cleanse the system and relieve constipation. It claims benefits like lively liver function, active bowels, and good digestion, offering the remedy for 25 cents at local drug stores.
An old writing teacher laments that truly excellent penmen are scarce. Bus iness colleges have improved overall writing, but the typewriter reduces demand for skilled penmanship. Once high salaries for top scribes vanish as demand dwindles and the art fades away.
Islanders plan regular communication with the outside world after decades of isolation. Coffin and Russell McKay, governor, will use a new schooner to reach Manga Reva, 300 miles north of Pitcairn, enabling trade and contact with Tahiti and beyond.
Mrs A M Shields of Chambersburg Pa says she was near death after six months of sickness due to Hay Fever and Asthma. She credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with a complete recovery and recommends it for throat and lung diseases. Trial bottles free at local stores.
A well meant act of charity at a military hospital backfires when a nurse is laughed at by a soldier who jokes about a tract on dancing after losing both legs. The report also mentions Brrcx dust as a cheap cleaner for gateware.
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