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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1897
Page
7
A tiny Mexican Siskin in a New York bird shop at 240 Sixth Avenue must earn every meal to survive. The playful display depicts the bird’s careful foraging and daily challenges.
The siskin earns its living by hard work eating and drinking. It draws water from a well using a bucket and pulls a seed wagon up an incline to reach its cage. After filling, it lets the wagon return out of reach. A separate note discusses Persian wallpaper, fancy patterns, and green tones like jade for rooms.
Expert bubble blowers enjoy a playful table top game described as bubble football. Players blow delicate bubbles along a cloth field toward two goal sticks, with collisions sending bubbles flying and removing blowers from play until one blows a bubble between the sticks.
A child pleads with his mother for one final kiss before sleep. He promises bravery when with his father and asks for the light to stay on so he can hear her voice. The plea, filled with affection and fear, ends with a request for a comforting kiss to help him sleep.
A boys' cooking class at an industrial school covers eggs and an omelet. John McK. y, living in a tenement with hens in the yard, shows keen interest and records recipes. He later reports he made an egg ornament at home and admires it as first rate.
A Boston Transcript quotation reflects a child’s playful inquiry after school. Margery asks her mother if she knows as much as she does not, revealing a humorous moment about early education and the value of learning.
A teacher tells Tommie she fears he cannot write while Tommie replies he does not care. He eagerly anticipates a birthday gift from Uncle Jim a typewriter signaling a turning point in his writing journey.
A man visits a specialist who diagnoses organic throat trouble with tonsillitis symptoms. After a $25 bill and $5 for medicine, he sees a dentist who extracts a wisdom tooth for 60 cents. Returning home he finds his throat ailment gone, but he retains a $30 bottle of medicine.
A Portland owner demonstrates a ring on a horse tail hair suspended in water as a method to reveal the animal’s age. A veterinary surgeon questions the result after the device allegedly taps 85 times, while the horse appears younger and sound.
The New York Post notes widespread complaints about sachet powders used in public spaces, especially theatres. It cites how strong fragrances cause discomfort in overheated, poorly ventilated interiors, contrasting with milder scents like violet and rose.
Remove dead leaves daily and spray foliage to freshen plants and deter insects. Tie straggling growth to stakes, keep the room clean, and turn pots so plants grow evenly.
In a Brooklyn Life humor piece, Tommy resists being told to stop making noise while Mamma insists on quiet. The playful exchange centers on parental authority and a child’s reluctance to comply.
Professor Emmons, a leading metallurgist, argues silver's molecular structure can be subdivided to form a new substance that acts as the parent of gold and silver. He says this material can be shaped into gold in color and weight, and that four ounces of gold could be made from six of silver, potentially altering chemistry and elements.
The Philadelphia Record recounts Presi dent George B. Roberts of the Pennsylvania railroad joking about locating the road as an inspector rides a crooked branch line with a division superintendent. The exchange reveals Roberts’ youthful engineering claim and his cheerful acceptance of a sharp rebuke.
A Chicago Record account describes a hunter near the Washi river on Java witnessing a 12 foot python coil around a full grown hog. The snake crushed the hog’s bones under pressure before the hunter shot the 12 foot long creature. The story notes vast swamps harbor giant anacondas and that malarial conditions deter hunts.
The New York Post notes that Dujardin-Beaumetz warned that raw oysters can ferment in the stomach and carry germs, causing trouble for those with weak digestion. Recent studies corroborate his view and may end the oyster’s status as convalescent food, as its nutritive value was overstated.
Miss Agnes P. Mahony of New York has been named apothecary at the Manhattan State hospital on Ward's Island. She trained at the nurse training school on Blackwell's Island, studied medicine on Staten Island, and attended the New York College of Pharmacy where she won a $100 scholarship prize as the lone woman in a class of 180.
A poem recounts Maggie defying a curfew by hanging a bell on her bicycle. The council laments the trespass as night falls and clanking sounds echo down the street, signaling Maggie’s rebellious act. The verse captures a small civic tension between rule and youthful mischief.
A critique describes Emer ich Kastner’s Wagner catalogue method, arguing his beat counts and arithmetical tests misrepresent art and reflect blind idolatry. It notes colleagues applying similar mechanical analysis to Wagner’s texts, lowering artistic views, as quoted from Herr Alexander Moszkowski in Forum. It also mentions a magazine aside on folding beds becoming nightgowns, linoleum use, an Odd Fellows lodge in Tasmania, and Baffon's French jaw strength test.
F C Platt of 43 Austin street Worcester recalls nine months of bowel inflammation with blood loss and weight loss. After doctors offered no relief, he used Puritana advertised in newspapers and reports rapid improvement and relief. He claims the remedy cured his stomach and overall health.
Public auction to foreclose a mortgage from John B Moore to The Middlesex Institution for Savings dated December 22 1875. Three parcels in Concord and Lincoln totaling about 111 acres, with buildings. sale on March 27 1897 at 4 00 p m. $500 cash down, balance due at deed delivery. Mortgagee Henry J Hosmer treasurer Charles H Walcott solicitor.
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