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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1897
Page
2
Practical swimming tips from the Chicago Record describe buoyancy concepts and tricks for youths. It explains floating with minimal head weight, using cork on the head, and paddling with clothing as a makeshift float. A rubber tube with end spools offers extended underwater breathhold and diving aid.
The Atlanta Constitution describes the 1883 railroad standard time system dividing the US into four 15 degree sections Atlantic to Pacific. It notes the hour differences between zones and local deviations such as Boston 16 minutes slow and San Francisco 10 minutes fast.
A brief fable-like scene features Busy and Not Afraid watching a bug on a log. Robin Redbreast catches a glimpse and plans to eat the bug while Mr Longlegs readies to spring. Pussy Green Eyes and Auntie Beth appear in a small woodland moment.
Greenland boys are great egg collectors. In spring they climb rough mountain sides and creep over glaciers to collect eggs. Only boys who have practiced at climbing and crossing glaciers may take on the perilous task.
In a rascally scheme from the San Francisco Post, Jones deceives a tailor by trying on a coat with oversized and undersized collars. After failings, the tailor offers a price cut and Jones finally agrees to pay, covering the suit and extra costs.
Mrs. Adelaide HE Sherry of West Point Indiana owns Walnut Lodge a 1000 acre estate ten miles south of Lafayette and nine miles north of Baden Baden springs. She manages 200 fifty year old walnut trees, a large staff, ships stock to Germany and Chicago and handles corn and livestock while traveling widely. She recently returned from the Holy Land and plans study of occult philosophy in India. Conan Doyle praises her prose style and notes she writes for publications. Also listed are farming supplies and fertilizers from Bowker Clark and others.
Petitioners seek a nine hundred foot road relocation from Lincoln toward Waltham to pass opposite the Moorfield Storey estate land of Laura F Briggs. Moorfield Storey agrees to cover all construction costs. Briggs will donate the land at no cost. The county will view the premises on September 22 at 10:30 AM after notices and publications.
A Florida Times-Union report describes Jacksonville postal workers testing their detection as a photo with a stamp is delivered to Walter G. Coleman. The image, taken on Bay Street, sparked a wager over whether it depicted Coleman, who later identified himself at his office. He had previously met a photographer on Bay Street who promised to mail a good shot if it succeeded.
John Muir notes in Century that damp woods preserve fallen trunks for centuries. Moss and seeds sprout on the dead trunks forming vigorous saplings that rise in rows. A few of these young trees endure, their roots spreading as the old trunks stay fresh inside for hundreds of years.
A dramatic caption from the Philadelphia Inquirer portrays a battlefield moment with a commander pleading for aid as enemy forces seize a left flank. The vivid military image invokes urgency and courage.
A provocative line from the Atchison Globe asserts that broad sympathy can empower the underdog to act aggressively and impudently, framing sympathy as a potential catalyst for public challenge and perceived misconduct.
Mrs. Amelia Kohler of Mount Vernon New York died at 92. Story says she inspired Tom Moore to write The Last Rose of Summer after prompting him in a London school garden. Her father served under Blucher and she recalled seeing Napoleon in her youth.
Mrs Anna Botsford Comstock of Ithaca New York gives a Nature Study lecture course at the New York Chautauqua. Her husband John Henry Comstock Cornell professor of entomology has just published Insect Life a richly illustrated book. Mrs Comstock learned wood engraving to aid the project and knows insects domestic economy social instincts homes and habits.
The New York Post notes Vandykes in large and small points with bands of black guipure insertion and silk cord appliques. Trim details include braidwork embroidery effects, draped fabrics, velvet ribbon, accordion pleats, ruches, milliners folds, gimps, galloons and stitched bands on fronts sides or hems for the autumn season.
A New York fashion writer notes exclusive dressmakers reduce neck bands and bows as a trend. New models feature narrower folded bands with light lace or chiffon frills or two vandykes of moire velvet or silk, replacing earlier prominent details.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson argues that men currently hold homes while women work inside them. She predicts future social change will move most household tasks outside the family dwelling, allowing women to obtain homes of their own.
Mortgagee Ida F. Boyce will sell at public auction on Monday September 20 at 2 PM the parcel of about twenty acres in Sudbury Middlesex County including the buildings, under a power of sale from Catherine Gilbert and James Gilbert to Ida F. Boyce dated June 11 1896. A $100 deposit is required at sale.
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