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Newspaper
Ellsworth American
Location
Ellsworth, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1900
Page
2
A religious column discusses Christian Endeavor lessons focusing on avoiding worry. It cites key verses, emphasizes trust in God over temporal concerns, and urges living by faith rather than seeking visible answers. Additional passages discuss faith growth through hardship and obedience.
The piece combines quotes from Rev Paul Revere Frothingham and Rev Dwight E Marvin on bearing a lamp of faith and the role of tact in success. It contrasts inherited talent with earned tact and offers concise rules to help tactful people improve through purpose and effort.
A community column exhorts readers to share long communications while preserving anonymity. It includes a personal poem about doing one’s best, notes Aunt Madge’s possible guest role, and invites sisters to gather for workshops and mutual uplift. The piece urges balance for mothers and couples to take time for small joys and social duties. The author cites grain beverage respect and health benefits.
In a Mrs Pinkham appeal to mothers, women with heavy domestic burdens are urged to seek free guidance. A testimonial from Mrs Canmix RetLevitte Ludington Mich credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relieving menstrual pain and enabling her to manage eight family members.
County news records a newborn daughter for Mr and Mrs George W Grey. Mentions schooner Heart Delf under Captain Harry Youn and work by William P Gray and Albert Cousins. Died Wednesday morning Don E Chatto. obituary printed elsewhere. Baptismal service at the Cove with Mrs Etta Billings and Miss May C Condon. Local notices include illness, visits, and school activities along with ads for Hood's Sarsaparilla and scalp treatment.
Deer Isle marked the birth centennial of Aunt Salome Sellers on Monday October 15 with a wide turnout from town and relatives from other states. The Martha Washington temperance society gathered in the afternoon as she celebrated, receiving flowers from California and distributing commemoratives. Her niece Mary Warren attended, and visitors spoke of her sharp memory and long life while she accepted honorary membership in the white ribbon union.
Colby notes a junior, Herbert Carlyle Libby son of the late Hon I C Libby known as the Cattle King of Maine, is compiling Colby Stories with about 250 pages of material from prominent Colby alumni including Dr William Matthews Holman F Day H L Koopman A P Caldwell and others. Prof Joseph C Chane illustrates and Julius H B Fogg of Waterville acts as business manager.
An old timey health ad claims skin issues signal liver trouble and promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills as a cure. It asserts the product gives clear skin and rosy cheeks, priced at 25 cents at Wi Grx & Moone's drug store.
A Hancock county traveler testifies to relief from long standing backache and kidney pain after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He details severe soreness from lifting and driving, noting he had no bother after treatment. The product is sold for 50 cents by Wiggin's drug store, Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY, agents for the U S. Remember the name Doan's.
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