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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1896
Page
2
A Chicago Record inspired guide shows children can craft a menagerie of animals and dolls from small potatoes carrots parsnips and wooden toothpicks. No rules apply just assemble heads arms and legs with toothpicks and let imagination grow these simple toys entertain on rainy afternoons.
The article notes farm boys rely on sky signs to forecast weather. Rosy sunsets signal good conditions, while ruddy skies warn of bad weather. Bright yellow evenings imply wind, pale yellow suggests rain gear, dull gray mornings predict fair picnic weather, with unusual colors hinting at wind or snow depending on season.
A verse contrasts two bells one joyful and bright sounding of May sun sugar and bees while a second harsher jangle warns of darkness and mischief. The poem urges a child to heed the cheerful bell and avoid the troubling one. William Lord in St Nicholas.
The article explains wrapping a three inch copper ball in a linen handkerchief and placing a red hot cinder on top. The copper conductor absorbs most of the heat from coal combustion, keeping the cloth from ignition while the ball continues to burn.
In a short comic note from a youth’s companion piece, a cow near a house sparks a playful mystery as one horn reportedly blows during a passing moment.
Translated excerpts from a Moscow interview with Tolstoy criticizing decadence in modern literature. He distinguishes reserved and open decadents, laments lack of originality, praises past literary values, and reflects on aging, writing discipline, journalism, and approaching death.
The article contrasts Parma violets and tree violets in Grasse and Nice, explaining how 200000 pounds yearly are insufficient for toilet needs. It details the enfleurage method, the Cassie flower as a substitute, and the harvest periods from November to December for Cassie and February for violets, with the supply chain from flower to pomade.
A patient endures a week of malaise with red, tearing eyes and coldlike symptoms before a speckled red rash appears. Fever spikes to 103–104 F, then subsides as the rash fades. Mild cases recover in days, but measles can trigger dangerous lung inflammations or chronic illness such as consumption.
The New York World cautions that excessive eating harms, especially for growing youths. It says growing youths require nourishment to build tissue while adults need food only to replace tissue waste from mental or physical work. Excess intake beyond need is as harmful as swallowing sand.
A exchanged quip reflects on newspaper ads and reader expectations. A visitor scorns the paper as an advertising medium while the editor defends, noting the ad’s wording and a joke about a hopeful suitor seeking a wife who can manage a home.
The 1875 Longleat trip by Lord Beaconsfield drew praise for his taciturnity. Lord Bath described him as the dullest and most silent guest, while Dicky Doyle recalled Disraeli saying talking was effort and that nature meant him to be a silent man.
In a London scene a bus filled beyond capacity led a man to claim he was the thirteenth passenger. The constable refused intervention as the vehicle was within legal capacity, and the man was ejected amid laughter after asserting his status. The Dundee anecdote followed about Catherine Sinclair and Sir Walter Scott.
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