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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1902
Page
1
In June Miss Sophronia Denby, a retired dressmaker aged fifty two, enchants neighbors with a radiant new wardrobe and a mystery suitor. A dramatic Count Sardanapalus claims to woo her from Greece via a park romance, but the drama ends with a wild balloon escape and a practical balloonist.
March April May bring a natural cleansing period as the body purges impurities. Eruptions on the face and body signal this timing, with the system actively purifying the blood during spring.
The ad touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills as medicines that work thoroughly and reliably. It claims these remedies are ones people have always heard recommended and promises to cure while keeping that promise.
Ex Speaker Reed rode a New York street car and, after it passed his corner, told the conductor not to sympathize. He said sympathy is out of style and only found in dictionaries.
Grandma Hollis demonstrates a memory trick to determine dates using family milestones and a ring. She links her daughter’s marriage in 1889 to her own life events and the Philadelphia Centennial to conclude 1776 as the base year. The boy listens, hoping to unlock his own memory aid.
The article notes Marconi’s likely success in wireless ocean communication while governments test fog horns and lighthouse signals as added safeguards. Sirens at St Catherine's Lighthouse on the Isle of Wight use compressed air, with the Casket trumpet and Lord Rayleigh’s elliptical horn demonstrated. yet sound conveyance remains weather dependent.
A historical note explains the Mahometan sects Sunnites and Shiites by arm hair directions, claimed to arise from differing post washing stroke directions. Sunnites wash with strokes from shoulder to wrist on the front and wrist to shoulder on the back, while Shiites wash oppositely, allegedly causing contrasting hair growth patterns on both arms.
June 26 is fixed for King Edward's coronation. The date echoes Victoria's aborted plan due to her uncle George IV's death anniversary. Cromwell’s installation, several monarchs crownings on Thursdays, and a Maltese cross ruby worn by Henry V at Agincourt are noted.
Dr Seven Henin reports a vast yet shallow dead sea in Tibet requiring a half mile wade to reach a boat and a half mile drag to float a loaded craft. Saltiness is extreme, with boats and oars turning white and water droplets forming candlelike beads on dry surfaces.
Boston argues its residents spent six dollars per capita on stamps in the previous year, compared with two dollars eighty seven cents in Philadelphia and three dollars in New York, as further proof of cultural leadership.
A historical physics note explains auroras as visible light from atomic fragments, deflected by magnetic fields. Hot bodies emit these rays, including the sun, which interact with Earth's atmosphere to produce poleward luminous spirals seen as northern and southern lights.
Colonel John S. Mosby discovers a tattered silk flag from the Thirteenth Mississippi Volunteers in a Denver curio shop. The banner, once blue cross on pink, faded to pale brown, was given by ladies at departure for the front. He plans to send it to Mississippi then to Richmond for Confederate Museum viewing.
A narrator recalls a moonlit night on a crowded urban street and a tale the moon tells of a girl who fears a hen and its chicks. The girl cries as her father scolds her, then kisses replace harshness, and the moon and narrator express forgiveness. Elix creams and testimonials about Ely's Cream Balm are included with names and places.
The article notes glass and mirror workers face lethal risks from inhaled glass fragments, mercury poisoning, and nerve damage. Life insurance shuns the occupation, with over 60 percent mortality for those over twenty years in the trade, plus alcohol and nervous diseases linked to the work.
Three Washington men funded a kitchen garden project for girls aged seven to twelve in Georgetown. Through the Girls Friendly Society at St John’s, pupils learn housekeeping via song and mock tasks, including cooking, setting tables, and laundry, with patriotic prayers and a formal exhibition for mothers.
The article explains that Earth's rotation has slowed from about five hours per day in ancient times to current twenty four, while the Moon has receded as the day lengthens. It cites tidal forces gradually reducing Earth’s spin and pushing the Moon outward over millennia. The New York Herald is cited as the source.
Ad touts Electric Bitters as the cure for nervous and female troubles. It claims help for melancholy headaches loss of appetite sleeplessness constipation and dizziness. Mentions sales by C A Kleim and J H Mercer with a March 5 date and 50 cent price.
A gentleman reproaches a filthy drunkard but the drunkard deflects by asking who is worst Satan or Eve. The parkeeper grows angry and ejects the man from his house without allowing the dram.
Lord Avebury, renowned entomologist and zoologist, argues after decades of study that insects show intelligence and moral sense. He cites wasp feeding patterns and ant sympathy, challenging the view that insects are mere automata and suggesting distinct, though different, mental processes.
The Tablet notes Major Burrow's claim that a narrow band across central India reverses the plumb line deflection between 22 and 24 degrees north. He suggests an underground mountain chain raises crust density, altering local gravity along a 1000 mile east west zone from the Ganges delta to the Indus.
Dr King’s New Life Pills advertised as a grand liver and bowel remedy claiming to cure constipation sick headache biliousness jaundice and indigestion. Available for 25 cents at C A Kleim’s and J H Mercer’s drug stores.
A guide for first calls at the season describes card etiquette for visiting married women, privacy for adult household members, and appropriate visit length. It notes card distribution, timing from three to six, and that residents initiate calls to newcomers brides elderly and the ill, with proper conduct when doors open.
In 1882 the speed record on a high bi cycle was 20 miles in an hour and 12 minutes. Behind a motor pacer a rider has recently covered 40 miles in an hour.
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