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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1897
Page
7
A Bolton dog named Princess May receives a Royal Humane Society medal for saving a child on a streetcar track. The Labrador of courage is shown in a 5 by 4 foot photograph, praised for the life saving instinct common to her breed and presented by Lord Stanley in Bolton Town Hall.
In Russia children celebrate Christmas by dressing as wolves bears and even ostriches then visiting houses for entertainment and refreshments. Elsewhere religious entertainments use marionettes in a small theater carried by a boy with lanterns and banners depicting scenes from the Christian story.
A Chicago Record item explains how basswood trees form tiny snow yachts each winter. A brown sail-like bract carries green fruit and seeds that drift across snow when wind blows, helping seed dispersal and new basswood sprouts after the snow melts.
A Philadelphia Times vignette shows Little Ethel rushing to tell her mother a girl cried in the street over money lost by her mother. The child reveals she was the girl, explaining her tears and the reason she did not join others in laughter.
A teacher defines atom as a tiny particle and asks for a sentence using it. A boy replies with a playful, ambiguous line about Jimmy Brown hitting him and wanting to get at him, prompting a classroom exchange.
A Boy I Knew by Laurence Hutton in St. Nicholas narrates a boy tempted by a homemade orange. He lies on his back to bite it, then confesses to his mother and Aunt Margaret. They punish him, making him finish the fruit, teaching that promises must be kept.
Ezra Billtops laments total memory loss and explains his need to memo risks. Mrs. Billtops tries to recall Claude shoes by placing them in his hat. He is convinced a clever ruse could work but remains forgetful, ultimately prompting Mrs. Billtops to take the shoes to the shoemaker herself.
Mrs. Theo dore Sutro stands out as a leading New York club woman with roles in the Children’s Surgical Hospital Ladies Auxiliary and the American Authors' guild. She chairs entertainment committees, serves in multiple societies, and prioritizes her Home club over others despite a vast schedule. Experts note London tree deaths may link to sewer gas rather than soot or drought.
Washington Star reports a molasses shortage as keystone syrups replace it in commerce. Grocers note rum production rises from molasses diverted to distilleries while dark sugars vanish due to boiling methods. Households can imitate brown sugar by adding molasses to white granulated sugar.
In Springfield Street Boston, Lucius Poole shows rare skill in book patching. He can dovetail splice inlay and even split a current magazine sheet into four thinner sheets. He also replaces imperfect pictures and plants photos on pages while evading detection.
An extraordinary pig in Kentucky escapes a walled pasture by biting a grapevine rope and swinging over the wall into a neighboring field. The owner, impressed by the animal’s genius, plans to educate him for trapeze work rather than curb his wandering talent.
An enduring Roman road still runs through Llandrindod with only minor gaps, continuing to Magos a couple of miles away, illustrating how little surface change Wales has seen in agriculture.
A Chicago Record item notes a humorous exchange where a doctor nicknames a nervous complaint as "catching trains" and questions a husband’s ailment, reflecting newspaper humor of the era.
Poem recounts a pilgrim’s struggle with heavy care along a path toward morning light. A Master’s presence and a tender word renew strength, lifting the burden as prayer is answered. Attributed to M. E. Sangster in Witness.
A reminiscence highlights Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher’s militant abolitionism at Plymouth Church Brooklyn in 1847 amid hostility and threats. It recounts Beecher carrying a revolver for protection and receiving ominous mail while resisting slavery. A related Century anecdote by General Horace Porter recalls Grant’s humorous discipline of a sentinel and a soldier’s salute.
The defendant’s counsel claims contributory negligence for a plaintiff in a compensation dispute. The jury considers if danger was obvious or not, and the foreman notes the dilemma. The verdict ends at £800 with one man demanding an additional fifty for the dilemma.
A Philadelphia Telegraph quotation lists ten virtues including doing good to all and speaking evil to none. It also notes Rudolph II’s crown with uncut diamonds in Vienna and mentions symbolic plants and a remark about mail from New York to Brindisi taking eleven days.
A brief notice from QuAroDS in South Acton Massachusetts records court administration actions dated January 13, 1807. Details reference Neusevd Cour Adm. and local proceedings related to municipal oversight.
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