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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1896
Page
7
In the heat the wind blows over clover and wheat as caps and gowns drift. The lines praise red clover caps and dainty gowns, noting a lazy lover learning courtship in a playful London scene.
Pierce W. Hart in New York Advertiser retells how the gray cloaked figure haunted the Bowerie road and the Wursthaus. Hans Von Schweist faces rumors of a demon as young Jacob Twiller recounts the eerie sighting beside a haunting alehouse. The tale ends with a Boston traveler’s death and the phantom unseen since.
A child friendly explanation of static electricity and atmospheric charge. The piece describes how clouds charge, how lightning pierces the air creating a visible streak, and why thunder sounds like a long rumbling due to differing travel speeds from various points along the flash.
New York World notes women increasingly pursue physical culture at home. Miss Kathryn Staley offers simple leg and back work for weak backs, abdominal lifts, and torso toning done without a corset. Start with 15 minutes morning and night, using a loose robe.
The Fifty fourth Congress features numerous members sharing common surnames. Arnold, Baker, Barton, Clark, Cannon, Cook, Cooper, Curtis, Cobb, Henry, Johnson, Miller, Murphy, McCall, Walker and Wilson appear in multiple states. The Washington Post notes two individuals named Russell and four named Wilson across districts, highlighting identity duplication among legislators.
The sinker and electric indicator on the shipboard detector reveal the distance to submerged masses like anchors chains and sunken ironclads. Divers waste less time groping in darkness as the near mass is detected before diving begins. The system was designed to aid warships in finding anchored torpedoes and to safely fire a torpedo found by the detector.
A dealer offers a cigar for trial and Watts declines, saying it does not deserve a trial and should be lynched. The exchange is reported in the Indianapolis Journal.
The article recounts unusual mischief by two Florida wood rats that lived near the Oak Lodge before a fire. They hid watermelon seeds, cucumber seeds, pecans, and wood from beehive fixtures, moved corn and oats, and caused light mischief but harmed nothing except shoestrings. The tale ends with the pecans reappearing on Mrs. Latham’s bed.
A mother tells Robin the tale of Dixie the bird who overcomes fear by daily bravery. Dixie starts by fearing his bath cup, edging in and out, then eventually dives in and splashes happily. The moral: perseverance helps a boy, like a bird, conquer fear.
A New York Times note suggests a nursery rhyme party with guests in costumes of Jack Horner Little Bo Peep Old Mother Hubbard and others. It mentions playful license for Cinderella Red Riding Hood and Jack the Giant Killer and describes simple prep. For supper it proposes coloring jelly with harmless vegetable coloring and filling orange baskets with wax to seal holes.
Emma M Hooper in Ladies Home Journal argues toilet success rests on neckwear. She describes handkerchief style collars a double band of batiste with four corners and lace inlay, ribbons at back, or worn inside a high dress collar with points outside.
Emma C Sickles the Pine Ridge Schoolteacher who aided mediation during the 1890 uprising earned a French gold medal with motto To save or to perish. She risked entry to hostile camps and provided timely information to General Miles to avert mass slaughter after Wounded Knee.
Dr. Ella Prentiss Upham of Asbury Park has been named a medical examiner for the Covenant Mutual Benefit association of Galesbury Ill. The first homeopathic woman physician in such a role, she is a Philadelphia Woman's Medical College graduate from the class of 85 and runs a large practice in Asbury Park and Ocean Grove. She also serves as president of the Monmouth County W. S. A.
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