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Newspaper
Elkhart Weekly Truth
Location
Elkhart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1903
Page
3
Chinese official records claim porcelain invention around 200 years BCE, with Father Entrecolles later noting a vast porcelain industry in Te Ching with 3,000 ovens. The account describes nighttime city illumination by many chimneys and ovens.
A woman on a streetcar searched her pocketbook for a pencil to add to her shopping list. Lacking a pen, she asked to borrow a necktie, mistaking it for a pencil. The result drew amused grins from nearby passengers.
The Kansas City Star reports Missouri towns with odd nicknames in county lists. Caldwell counties include Zion Lickfork and Polo while Worth county features Bebo Dell Galetown and Dawson City. Names spread across Nodaway Henry Atchison Daviess Sullivan and Butler counties show playful or harsh christenings, reflecting a long tradition of colorful place labels.
The passage argues love should guide marriage but notes society accepts loveless unions for many reasons from rulers to commoners. It cites Sir Walter Scott and The Bride of Lammermoor as examples of the horror of loveless marriage. It contrasts women's preference for love with broader social pressures shaping unions.
An English physician gave a hundred hospital patients a dose of sweetened water and then claimed he had administered a powerful emetic by mistake. Four-fifths showed effects, mostly men, while all women remained unaffected.
Description of licorice cultivation along the Tigris and Euphrates. The rivers run through flat treeless prairies with largely uncultivated land. The climate features three hot months at 104 degrees, six milder months, and three cold months with nights around 30 degrees.
In a Washington Times snippet Brer Jake explains a wild night after losing his last cent in a poker game and facing trouble at home with Martha Ann, as he describes his mishap with a wildcat and a rough evening.
A fragmented meditation on poetry’s meaning. The lines compare understanding and common sense to a playful clash between a rose and a cabbage, suggesting poetry’s purpose may resist practical utility. The quotation reflects Lowell’s witty, paradoxical voice.
The seventeenth century saw iced treats at banquets, with ice cream called iced butter as it evolved. An Italian named Precope Couteaux first proposed icing lemonades and liquors, leading to a dessert later known as ice cream. It appeared in America in Philadelphia in the late 1700s, becoming a luxury before 1800 when an Italian confectioner opened an ice cream house in Germantown, Philadelphia.
George Little recalls Adirondack hunts with Speaker Husted and Dr Hayesha. A muzzle loader mishap caused a brass button to fly off and later be found in a deer's heart. A V shaped flock of geese, 70 pounds of trout, and 17 geese impaled on a ramrod frame his vivid tale from Ks quette lake to camp.
A New York dentist notes Americans, especially Southerners, seek dental care at first signs of trouble, leading to more saved teeth than in other nations. He contrasts American urgency with English and Irish tolerance for decay and delayed treatment.
A London paper details Formosa railroad building with English and American rails engines and American rolling stock. Labor was Formosan and Japanese under French, English, and American supervision. Japanese earned about one third more than Formosan for ten hour days with top rates for carpenters 62 cents and masons 80 cents.
A Washington physician, amused spectators on Pennsylvania Avenue, faced a stalled auto after a luncheon at the Raleigh hotel. A heckler urged gasoline, the absent minded doctor calmly thanked him and then started the engine, prompting the crowd to marvel at the sudden motion.
The Russian foreign trade report for January–April 1902 shows American imports nearly unchanged from 1900, suggesting Russian buyers prefer American machinery despite the tariff. German and British imports decline while total imports fall, yet America's share grows as exports rise.
An odd scene in Reading Pennsylvania arose one morning in the eastern part of town. Residents reported an unusual sight involving hosiery tourism and city life. Authorities or local observers were not clearly identified in the fragment.
A retired burglar urges steady effort over dreaming, citing his own failures at bank heists and observing a rival who built success by focusing on smaller targets and persistent work. He reflects on his life and contemplates becoming a teacher.
Mr John H Hanson a visitor from Huddersfield England criticizes U S pronunciation in the Raleigh hotel and comments on Potomac pronunciation noting the British habit of stressing the final syllable while acknowledging roots in an Indian word.
A humorous exchange described by the New York Times centers on a husband and wife at the front door. The husband confesses with a grim smile that he is a fool and she a ditto, prompting a tense, wry conclusion.
The New York Post reports a new English made cable to connect the continent with Hawaii and the Philippines within two years if plans proceed. It features India rubber covering from Philadelphia and copper wire weighing 500 pounds per knot, twice the old standard. The laying method uses machinery to bend the cable and prevent rapid payout, with careful tensioning to avoid kinks.
Darwin noted earthworms loosen soil and improve texture. Swiss naturalist Prof Dussere reports worm activity leaves soil richer in phosphorus and lime after foraging. The worm fertilizes soil in a natural process similar to artificial fertilization by farmers.
J K Brown Hawaii immigration inspector notes Japanese labor, drawn after Chinese exclusion, proves less desirable for plantations yet often learns trades and displaces white skilled workers. He contrasts U S debate on Chinese exclusion with Hawaiian realities.
A tall man asks a commission merchant for a brotherly deal to buy a lieutenant’s commission for his son who favors soldiering over attending West Point. The merchant confirms commissions are sold and discusses the request.
In a Philadelphia Press snippet Miss Anne Teek asks to call Grace Sharpe by her first name, saying she hopes it isn’t too familiar. Sharpe replies that she expects elderly ladies to use her given name, signaling ease and mutual reassurance.
A quoted exchange from the N Y Herald contrasts truth with mudslinging in politics. The editor asserts truth is mighty and will prevail while the politician laments the small role of truth in politics and worries it will take long to win.
A man in a mackintosh proclaims he cannot serve on a jury because he knows too much. When pressed, he repeats his claim that his knowledge protects him from being seated. The exchange is noted by the Chicago Tribune.
A fragment notes a courtroom exchange about a carriage delay caused by an automobile. The judge snaps to the point with a terse remark about the vehicle’s interference and the blame placed on a numbskull. The scene hints at social friction between traditional and modern transport.
Over £100,000 is allocated for hydraulic mountings on the barbette guns of the battleship King Edward VII now under construction at Devonport. The expenditure reflects a major upgrades program for the vessel's fire control and stability.
A New Orleans bird fancier contends that geese are easy to train and among the brightest fowls, countering widespread beliefs about the species in a Nature referenced sentiment.
Scientific exchange notes the mound builders buried beneath a green knoll with deep graves. The graves show careful burial, not resembling typical Indian practice, and floodwaters exposed 12 graves after the creek swept away soil and tops. There is no prior record of a local graveyard.
Mr Samuel Moorehouse of 1200 Middlebury Street reports back pain relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills purchased at Houseworth Bros. drug store. The advertisement claims rapid cure and urges buying from Foster Millburn Co Buffalo NY as sole US agents. Remember the name Dean's.
The Salvation Army rummage shop advertises cut prices where shoes with holes cost five cents and those without holes ten cents, moth eaten wraps ten or fifteen cents, and stockings with or without holes priced accordingly raising questions about value and golf humor.
Rabbi Isidore Myers of San Francisco told a Federation of Zionists audience that the stars and stripes symbolize Americans who behave and those who do not. His remarks addressed largely immigrant Jewish listeners, mainly Russians, at the meeting.
Distressing kidney and bladder disease relieved in six hours by a claimed remedy sold by C. H. Leonard in Elkhart. The ad promises immediate relief of water retention and back pain for both men and women. Also notes snowbound roads hinder travel in Russiaville township and promotes Rocky Mountain Tea as a beauty product from Goshen merchants.
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