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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1900
Page
2
An assortment of brief observations on public interest topics from the Cumons Co. Record. It notes the value of wise law over books, the public demand for spectacles in fights, mild winter business effects, moving pictures in hospitals for medical study, and a punning exchange on women in wartime with Horace Greeley.
A landowner forced a neighbor to tear down and rebuild a four story block after a six inch overreach into the plaintiff’s lot. A separate claim concerns five inches of space high above the sidewalk three hundred feet, with a cornice projecting over the plaintiff’s roof. Damages are sought in the case, while a wry literary aside punctuates the piece.
Sir John Murray described a distant future where frigid global temperatures lock oceans into solid rock. Liquefied air would form a new ocean about forty feet deep atop the crust, while life as we know it would vanish.
Dr. Thomas Wilson notes a language fringe between the coast range and the Pacific holds more Indian language stocks than the rest of North America. Calaveras skull is a genuine relic. Quotes on Fuseli and Northcote blend with musings on future leaders, sages, and lasting influence beyond their lifetimes.
A humorous anecdote recalls the great playwright Alexis Dumas and his friend Soumet at the Theatre Francais. They note a sleeping spectator, joking that the man represents the other’s work. The next night a Dumas piece is staged and the same scene repeats, prompting a quip about the work waking up.
A vivid, dated profile of Igorrote head hunters in the Luzon highlands encountered by Maj. March’s Thirty third Infantry unit. The piece labels them as savage, describes their appearance and methods, and notes their practice of eating enemies and a diet including dog meat. The passage also briefly shifts to a separate and unrelated line about tax dodgers and mail payment.
A Philadelphia Record tale reports Mrs. Buggins’ playful crusade for women’s emancipation through wearing pajamas. She jokes about fashioning pajamas for a “boy” and the salesman suggests sizing by a collar, leaving her thwarted and amused by conventional limits.
A lyrical verse asks a sweetheart for lifelong devotion as age brings hair turning white and eyes dimmer. The speaker hopes to sail life together through storms toward a calm future, seeking a promise of enduring love when age and hardship come.
March and his men chased Aguinaldo through the mountains, surprised by Igorrote runners and their rumored signal system. A tale merges Swiss cantonal duty with a Swiss legal note on alcohol and soldiers, and a tense moment between Americans and a frightened waiter ends with mercy.
In Budapest crowds believe every American carries a revolver. Three Americans sat at a music hall table as the waiter tallied the bill, declaring three times three equals seventeen. An American protested, and a program girl sprang in front of him to seize his arm.
A Harper's Bazar inspired piece promotes mental refreshment through optimism, curiosity, and social interest to preserve youth. It offers beauty tips including window garden decor, hall styling with brass rods and curtains, and hair arrangements tailored to face shape and age. It counsels avoiding worry to maintain health and charm and advises teen girls to keep hair simple until long dresses are worn.
W. P. Bishop of Chicago Lawn lost his wife’s wedding ring in a barn in Iowa sixteen years ago while feeding a horse. An exhaustive search failed, and he left his name with the barn owner. The barn was torn down and a new structure built. Last week he was notified the ring was found and would be forwarded, arriving yesterday.
McJigger jokes about saying How’r ye to Borem who then spends five minutes explaining he has never felt better in his life. Philadelphia Press reports the exchange as a lighthearted street moment.
In a pithy aside from the Boston Transcript, a skeptic dismisses a familiar line about honesty, suggesting the poet could have borrowed it from a less virtuous source and warning that one can never be sure who is honest.
In fashionable London streets a deluxe residence commands an annual rent of fifty thousand dollars. The article notes luxury housing prices in central fashion districts and reflects high-end real estate trends in the capital.
A moralizing note urges daughters to maintain neat personal appearance at home. It contrasts tidy housemaids and outsiders, warns against neglecting hair, washing, and dress, and notes that attractive dress enhances charm even among family. It laments slovenliness among otherwise pretty girls.
Suggestions to beautify living spaces emphasize a window recess. A low circular or curved seat surrounds the window, with cushions upholstered to match decor. This design adds charm, maximizes natural light use, and creates a cozy reading nook.
A columnist observes the decline of the pompadour and the rise of the saucer bang. The piece notes women in Paris and the United States adopting the new fashion, criticizing the look as ugly and urging American tastes to reject it.
The description notes a bodice of heavy white embroidery over white cloth caught on the side with a rosette of yellow chiffon. The skirt is white cloth with the bottom finished in embroidery, detailing ornamentation and finish.
The New York Telegram notes that many women show poor taste in hair arrangement, urging each person to choose styles that flatter her face and figure. For long thin faces, aim for full round fullness and let curls peek from behind the ears.
Professor Arenfeld declares many famed men such as Luther Dante Raphael Da Vinci Heine Goethe Shelley Milton Byron Leopardi Moliere Carlyle Rossini were first born or only sons. Beethoven Cuvier Michelangelo Rousseau Pascal Garibaldi were second sons. Third sons may excel but sixth or later children lose shine. after the sixth, talent may return for younger sons.
To wash brushes dip in hot water with melted caustic soda and move bristles up and down until clean. Avoid contact with wood to protect polish. Rinse under cold water then shake dry and air it upright. Dry in open air away from sun. For combs, scrub with a nail brush in hot soda water, soap, rinse in cold water, and dry softly.
A compact collection of kitchen tips including a sugar and butter cake recipe with flour and cream, a fricassee method for beef with broth onion and egg yolk then vinegar over toast, and a quick method to crisp pie crust with egg white glaze. It also notes a mince pie suggestion to improve suet with fresh butter per pound of fruit.
In a casual exchange from Life magazine, Lorenzo is asked to lend a suit of old Japanese armor hanging on his studio wall. The speaker wants it for a few days to serve as the best man at a Kentucky wedding.
Comic exchange features a southern parson debating church attendance versus going shooting with a neighbor. The Reprobate argues shooting in the neighborhood is better than the sermon, delivering a humorous regional banter in dialect.
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