19 Mar 1902
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Newspaper
Columbia County Republican
Location
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1902
Page
1
A wounded soldier awake in a field hospital learns his brother Jim Curtis led a daring assault and died. He asks about Annie Morton the nurse who cares for him, recalls their shared past, and longs to know if Annie and Jim’s whistle is still heard. the nurse hides her tears as she keeps him quiet.
The notice identifies Humphreys Dental Office located in H. J. Clark’s building at the corner of Main and Center Streets in Bloomsburg Pennsylvania.
The list names jurors drawn for a special term of court starting April 21 1902. Locations include Benton Borough, Benton Township, Briarcreek, Center, Cleveland, Franklin, Greenwood, Jackson, Mifflin, Millville, Montour, Orange, and Orangeville with numerous juror names like John Bager, G B Cross, John Edgar Berwick, Joseph Garrison, Newman Bower, and James B Robbins among others.
A patient nears recovery aided by a nurse as news of Captain Jim Curtis’ death emerges triggering shock and revelation. The nurse consoles him with a deeper confession that Annie is present and the whistle he heard signals her, not Jim, resolving the dream. The piece pivots to a Wyoming Society note on early anthracite coal use and Philadelphia’s slow adoption.
The article describes two uncommon waders the American avocet and the black necked stilt. It notes their distribution from the central United States to the far West and occasional eastward appearances on the middle and north Atlantic coast. The avocet has long blue legs and a curved bill, while the stilt has a straight bill. both are noted for peculiar wading actions and awkward alighting.
In Holland the mass of students share public schools from age six and girls enter higher burgher schools at twelve for a five year course. Coeducation is standard with language emphasis. many upper and middle class women speak English French and German. Women increasingly pursue professions. thousands work as nurses, chemist assistants, photographers, and gardeners.
Across ancient and modern nations the horse is celebrated as a symbol of human intellect and understanding. In the mythologies of many cultures the horse represents the intellectual principle and cognitive power.
In inclement weather a man who exposes himself risks nasal catarrh. neglect leads to obstinate, offensive drainage. Cure quickly with Ely's Cream Balm, the recognized remedy for catarrh. Price 50 cents. Sold by druggists and by Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street, New York.
A Chicago drummer recounts riding through Dakota with gun vigilant farmers at each house. He questions locals about Indians or thieves and learns a traveling circus is in town at Ferson, joking that couples fear wives eloping during the show.
The text notes arsenic as a brittle steel gray metal of great importance in the arts. It occurs native in metamorphic rock veins in Saxony Bohemia and abundantly at Chanarcillo in Chili. Arsenic is widely disseminated with traces in many sulphur ores. The white arsenic sold commercially is arsenious acid.
An English traveler reports in Youth's Companion on a Lapland clock shaped as an advertisement. A peg hung clock displayed a toothbrush moving across cardboard teeth between ticks, with English lettering about German-made dentifrice sold for six pence or one shilling. The observer notes the incongruity with Lapland customs and sleep.
Daily readers learn of Dr King's New Life Pills praised as a grand remedy for liver and bowel troubles. Thousands reportedly bless them for constipation headaches biliousness jaundice and indigestion. Available at O A Kleim's and J H Mercer's drug stores for 25 cents.
Mrs C N Whitman of Denver owns the world's largest ranch located in Texas near Tuscula. The L A ranch traces to Lucien Scott the first owner and spans about 30 miles square with hundreds of cowboys employed.
Advertises Mothers Friend as a purely vegetable external preparation for pregnancy pain and childbirth. Claims narcotics are avoided, warns on opium and morphine in other medicines, and cites Bradfield Regulator Co. as the source. Offers a free booklet titled Motherhood and price one dollar for the product.
The catalog highlights boys suits in wool serge with blouse trousers for ages three to eight, Norfolk and double breasted overcoats, and wash suits from three dollars fifty. It promotes Best & Co. Liliputian Bazaar for spring and summer catalogs with four cents postage. It also describes ladies jackets, Cheviot dresses, Yama Mai silk trims, silk petticoats, and bold headgear trends like a three cornered turbans with floral or berry decorations. Verona Clarke.
A 1900s style advert claims nagging wives suffer from nerves and health issues and should try Electric Bitters for female troubles. It cites headaches, appetite loss, insomnia, backache, and weak kidneys as conditions helped. Sold for 50 cents at C A Klelm and J SH Mercer, with satisfaction guaranteed.
Mrs WILLIAM GREGORY widow of the Rhode Island governor becomes the incorporated head of the mill business the governor ran for many years with notable success.
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