09 Mar 1898
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Newspaper
Edgefield Advertiser
Location
Edgefield, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1898
Page
1
Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox urges readers to see life as a brief space and join the first great cause. It promotes brightening the world, helping others, and taking pride in one’s duties without questioning why they exist. The speaker claims to be part of a larger plan and committed to making the world sweeter.
Lucy Hildeburn and Mr. Sangster, once kept apart by pride and gossip, are revealed to have wed unseen. After a perilous night in the dark furnace cellar during a planned mischief, the pair reconcile, vanish, and return with wedding cards that astonish the house.
The 1892 Chicago Record notes Seger school in Oklahoma Territory aiding Cheyennes and Arapahoes, with children eager to attend once weaned. It also describes a giant globe for the Paris Exposition, 84 feet in diameter, built by T Ruddiman Johnson at 1 to 500000 scale, revealing earth’s surface via nine story viewing levels.
A report quotes a remarkable example of an Indigenous pupil who, after entering a Government Indian school with no prior education, earned wages in various departments and saved enough to marry and establish a home. The article also notes Mary Kirk as the highest paid woman clerk in the U.S. government at 1800 dollars annually for Portuguese translation, tracing her path from Swarthmore College to Brazil and Washington.
A Paris jeweler showcases living tortoises embedded in jewelry on Rue Royale. Tiny tortoises, headless and 1/3 to 1/2 inch long, wear gold filigree and precious stones, with a gold chain pinned to corsages. Some pieces feature monograms, red diamonds, rubies, turquoises, and emeralds. The creatures roam in a doll garden when not in displays.
A fragmented page notes fashion guidance encouraging self-control and serene outlooks, collar etiquette anecdotes, underground sanitation claims in London, Norway using seaweed for glue and starch, Russian photographers punishing delinquent sitters, a dental electricity device, and a humorous quote about Colonel Fiegel and racing.
A revived novelty ring promises secrecy with a hidden mechanism. The narrow gold band bears a pinhole that releases two linked circlets when pressed, concealing the couple’s engraving and motto Si vis amari ama.
The Topeka Journal recalls the 1893 Cherokee Strip opening when Richard Maloney and Mary Hildreth raced over the plains toward a home in Indian lands near Caldwell Kansas. Their saddle girth broke, they claimed adjacent lots, built houses, proved up, and were wed last week after living on the claims. The note adds a later critique of roller boats, describing their failure due to water in wheels, excessive weight, and futile scrapers.
A giant Seychelles tortoise is described as the longest lived animal. One living specimen is about 150 years old since reaching full growth, its capture age unknown. The animal weighs around a quarter of a ton and has been offered to the Zoological Society of London.
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