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Newspaper
Emmet County Republican
Location
Estherville, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1901
Page
6
A collage of brief humor lines from Cincinnati Enquirer Philadelphia Press Puck and Brooklyn titles. Dialog snippets reference a furniture van and a mirror horn in hat alignment a plant with bachelor buttons and nautical gender references.
A Washington Star quote discusses frugal living and wills, with a gray haired man warning against waste and another insists saving funds benefits lawyers. A Chicago Tribune line jokes about age reveals and a wife chides her husband for blundering about age.
A brief, satirical note describes a lone fisherman Dusting off a year’s collection of sites and his reel, pocket flask, and last year’s Hest from Chicago Daily News. It references a decorative composite in Good Housekeeping featuring Mrs. Smith’s cooks, noting a run of poor luck with a Chinaman, a Negro, and several strong minded buxom females.
A collage of short jokes and quips from various papers. A tramp asks for odd jobs, a hotel gas joke sparks banter, and lines poke fun at dinners, weddings, marriage, and fashion. A mix of light humor from Harlem Life to Brooklyn Eagle with quick exchanges and pithy punchlines.
Practical home hints on drying curtains before starch to extend life and avoid rust, storage tips for brooches, mats, and moth prevention with alum and pepper. Cleaning floors with soapsuds, white of egg cream substitute, pearlash for creases, and packing winter bedding with borax camphor in tight boxes.
The article lists assorted global and imperial statistics and curiosities. It notes civilian to soldier death rates in Britain, log dimensions landed at Leith, Italy and Spain, population density contrasts, European town growth versus country districts, canal costs in Britain France and Canada, Ireland’s potato decline versus turnips, Congo elephant tusk weights, Brussels exhibition tusks, and Moon sale coin prices in London including an Oxford crown, Cromwell pattern gold 40-shilling, Charles II petition silver crown, Charles II cran gold 1817, and a Edward VII double sovereign.
Russia holds three times the land area of the British empire yet only about 25 million people, while Britain rules 297 million. The first Russian newspaper appeared in 1702 by Peter the Great, and the Rus press plans anniversary celebrations next year. A quote shows aunt Tolstoi doubting physicians and medicine. The Novoye Vremya, Russia's semi official paper, urges Russia Japan alliance to free it from British dictation and ease the Corean question.
From Switzerland, the latest electric railway is planned to run from Interlaken to St Beatenberg. Geneva seeks sinful tourists with unlimited baccarat at the Kur Saal. Yurich boasts more clubs per capita than any city, rising from 534 in 1893 to 771 in 1901. The first ascent of Mont Blanc was by Balmat and Paccard in 1786. Today about 50 parties ascend annually.
A collection of humorous maxims sourced from various newspapers. Quotes attributed to Ram's Horn Atchison Globe Chicago Daily News and De Bonald reflect on anger, Napoleon, pre and post marriage conversations, and how some waste time. The items read like brief witticisms from a late 19th or early 20th century periodical.
Brief notes highlight Mile Chavan the first woman admitted to the French bar winning three cases. Mrs Arthur Bertrand Russell funds a chair of temperance in London university. Chantry trustees buy a picture by Miss Kemp-Welch. Ida May Jackson named Wisconsin factory inspector. Two U S widows hold mail privileges. Marie Antoinette described with Roman facial traits and dull conversation.
The article describes table service variants for soup and dining wear. It highlights white wool gowns with blue silk trim and polka dots, gray pocketbooks and chattelaine details, a gray handbag with enameled violet nails, and aluminum chain handles. New lining trends include black velvet lining for tea gowns and cloaks, with extensive use of black velvet ribbon and delicate color pairings.
London has 227 aldermen, Berlin taxes 530000 people, British boots cleaning costs £600000 yearly, England spends £123866 on the British Museum, eighty thousand cats are exported yearly. Royal mourning veils measure 71 inches. Germany leads France by 19,000,000 people, and France leads Italy by 3,000,000. Forty eight thousand Turks exiled in 11 years, double Russia. Grenelle artesian well yields 700000 gallons daily. Mexico has 10234 mines with 4109 yielding silver and gold. 2200 lead and silver mines. Clyde shipyards show largest British building rise. 318 ships built last year vs 284 prior. Seine holds France’s trade record. after last year 27000000 passengers and 10000000 tons carried.
Items of Industry reviews several topics from peat fuel plans in Canada to dyeing dyeing quality, steel pens heat treatment for springiness, graphite deposits in Siberia for pencils, Notre Dame to be lit by electricity, Brazenville to Stanley Pool cable expansion toward Lake Tanganyika, and commentary on Chinese laughter and hailstorm insurance in southern Europe.
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