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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1896
Page
2
A lively rural vignette describes Bally Ann burning the cake and a household in chaos as townsfolk arrive. The narrator frets over cleaning chores, baking, dust, and clutter while visitors gather, turning the parlor into a frenetic scene with pans and kettles, feet, and furniture strewn about.
A survey of Russian and Warsaw papers shows how titles differ from Western norms. Moscow and St Petersburg use unique terms such as Wiedomosti and The Neva, while Warsaw favors Gazette forms and multiple edition titles.
A grateful mother recounts how her grown son recovered from debility and emaciation after following a physician’s simple advice to eat unlimited marrow. Daily marrow from markets, warmed and spread on bread with a pinch of salt, yielded rapid early gains and continued health improvements.
The article notes purslane seeds yield about 60 000 seeds per plant and calls the plant extraordinarily fruitful, compared with jimson weed butter weed rag weed and vervines. It then shifts to a tenth century Europe where nobles wore coronets to assert equality with the king amid continual wars between nobility and monarchs.
An account of courage in mining accidents highlights how workers risk their lives to rescue others. A colliery manager recalls rescues during disasters, with a case of a man calming a terrified boy with song while they waited five hours for air. Another tale follows Haslam guiding a youth to safety despite repeated hardships.
The Baltimore Sun notes partridges roost in a ring with sentinels watching, flee instantly on ground touch after a flush, and rely on a sharp sense of smell during nesting. Females incubate 10 to 20 eggs, with males vocal duties and fights for mates. Broods may number two to three, nesting begins May 1, and coveys scramble after alarms, while some gunners kill entire coveys.
A veteran criminal lawyer recounts observations from murder trials. He notes juries with tall lean members tend to impose the death sentence when evidence suffices, while juries dominated by short fat men prolong deliberation and often opt for imprisonment. The reflections come from the Louisville Commercial.
A proposed home remedy for severe earache uses dried arnica flowers placed in two small bags. Heat half a pint of whisky and dip a bag in, applying it to the ear until the steam fades, then switch to the cooling bag.
Mrs John L Gardner of Boston known as Mrs Jack the society leader plans a public Nautch dance at the artists festival. She will join 18 dancing girls in the Bagdad pageant with Holker Abbott as high priest and Winthrop Pierce as caliph to raise funds for charity.
A reader recalls being overcharged at a 10 cent saloon due to his old high hat while grocer friends attribute the bias to the hat. The tale mocks price gouging and social perception tied to appearance, urging smaller patrons to carry cash or switch to a 15 cent saloon. The second anecdote notes James Shields’ 1848 Senate victory and a quip about a Mexican bullet that “killed Breese 1,000 miles away.”
A New York Letter notes that a Dress Culture club with 655 members plans to wear fair weather dresses three inches above the ground and three inches shorter in rain. High bicycle shoes are favored for stormy weather and heels are banned. Members promise neat, quiet street attire and may wear longer dresses on Sundays if husbands object.
The article notes lattice cotton drapery cloth in terra cotta or apple green with silky appearance needing lining. It suggests coordinating striped wall coverings and introduces colonial cross stripe drapery in green with black and blue and white stripes, plus plain side-wall fabric. A Stafford Springs machinist, M Stebbins, builds a bicycle tool case device with a rear wheel grinder and soldering furnace, for on-road repairs. Kate and Will feature in a playful verse about a trip to The Grange. Hannah Alice Foster of Berea Ohio wins $50 for Cleveland centennial ode.
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