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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1895
Page
2
The article surveys 1900 era dances including the standard lancers caprice polka and waltz, noting changes like music changing with each figure and new coach figure practice. It describes prize favors awarded for grace timing and group coordination, with coaches supplying lighted lanyards and gear.
A nine month old shepherd puppy owned by Farmer Nathaniel Pardon of Melindy’s Prairie near Palmyra Wisconsin herds hogs that escaped their pen. The dog leads each hog home by the ear, pausing only for the master’s approval as the hog resists. The tale shows the dog’s sagacity in serving its owner.
Mr and Mrs Charles Butts of Springfield Ohio report a 12 day old boy weighing one pound. Nurses wrap him in cotton, he fits in a quart cup, arms barely cover two fingers, yet the infant appears strong and healthy despite extreme diminutiveness.
The Bismarck council licenses blind pigs at 100 cents per quarter in advance. Ten percent of revenue is set aside to fund monitoring of drug stores to prevent undermining the profits of the combine. No ordinance specifying wholesalers was passed. Steele North Dakota.
In Monmouth Illinois a humorous notice asks which block to pair seven widows who own their homes, inviting a deserving man still seeking a partner to cut out the item and send it to him.
Calvin S. Brice is said to be running eight railroads and a campaign, though the Chicago Times-Herald notes he is not particularly busy.
The piece contrasts Germanys nineteenth century heritage with a futuristic elevator scene. It envisions soldiers armored with spears and arquebuses surrounding the imperial palace as a dramatic homage to Prussian and Hohenzollern legacy during Sedan day.
The passage describes German imperial figures as three emperors of a new empire and jokes about William the Great, Frederick the Great, and the present Wilhelm. It notes William's interest in music, a rumored but unlikely authorship of The Song of Aegir, a favored but declined opera director, and a painting in a year’s exhibition. It ends with William transcribing and distributing ancient war marches to 20 infantry regiments for months.
Berlin crowds gathered as German royalty attended a grand evening at the Lustgarten before the schloss. Soldiers and bands filled the square with medieval pomp while the Kaiser appeared briefly, amid no cheers, as modern music only offered a Lohengrin selection.
The article recounts a legendary tale of a Canton peasant girl sold as a slave who becomes a general's adopted daughter in Peking. She rises to regent, gains acclaim for governance, and advocates interpreting Confucian teachings through Christian principles to aid missionaries.
Two Florida and Mississippi alligators in the Anderson water works basin fought a tense duel that left the Mississippi reptile dead. The larger Florida gator, previously tame, attacked after a period of peaceful coexistence, wounding the rival and then devouring it.
The Philadelphia Times recounts how Elias Howe nearly failed before discovering the needle’s eye must be at the point. A dream of building a machine for a savage king in a strange land spurred the breakthrough after a near premature execution scene. The insight came at 4 a.m. and Led to the successful needle design.
An Exchange quip recalls a famed lawyer whose son, awaiting sentencing, recalls his father’s admonition to run away. The elder’s work on The Law of Trusts is praised, and the son later offers a practical commentary on the parent’s sacred trust in his child.
The Journal of Hygiene recommends two grains of alum per gallon of water to remove vegetable or animal impurities. Alum acts as a clarifying agent, causing suspended matter to curdle and settle. It leaves no taste or unpleasant effect as the alum travels with the impurities, and cleaning takes about 10 to 12 hours. The purified water can be decanted and kept in ice chests until needed.
A fragment shows a back and forth between a listener and player. The speaker asks if music annoys, the other says not their playing but their ear for music. The line ends with a brief remark about the music.
A veteran editor adds humor to a daily, hiring a novice humorist and launching a joke pay scheme. A staffer earns 2.50 for an original joke that never appears, illustrating the editor’s cautious approach to wit and the staff’s curiosity about paid material.
The New York Sun notes that despite many women working in downtown offices and shops, large dry goods jobbers still employ mostly men. Only one woman is found among hundreds, confined to the fur department as a mantle mia. Visitors see her high upstairs corner while male colleagues crowd nearby. workers allegedly treat her with gallantry.
One hundred fifty Woman's college students spent an evening in Goucher hall as the YWCA hosted a reception for new students. Engraved visiting cards and pinned notes sped introductions. Faculty members, led by President Goucher and Dean Van Meter, guided conversations among attendees.
Florida's growing tobacco sector draws attention as Cuban cigar makers shift operations to Jacksonville and more planters relocate cultivation to Florida, signaling an expanding industry with factory foundations already in place.
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