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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1900
Page
3
A New York trade feature notes window displays use artificial flowers to inspire winter dress decor with velvet blossoms and purple orchids. it also describes a separate claim where a rivet heats red hot after contents are emptied, and steel tubes welded cheaply using similar heating.
A Kansas City Journal piece recounts Trooper J W Echols of the Ninth Cavalry arriving home to Boston after three years service at Ft. Apache, noted for a beaded necklace story. It then shifts to insurance fraud in England, George Washington’s death, and Juliette Dodu, a Franco-German war telegraph operator who hid a crucial dispatch.
Amid a brutal siege a prince arrives just before a scheduled execution and orders the prisoner Julette's release. He praises her courage, and the act of mercy stands as a shining moment amid the cruelty of war.
A historical sketch describes how shoe buckles signified status from diamonds to iron, with royals and nobles wearing jeweled buckles while common folk used brass or iron. It notes the rise of shoe ribbons after the French Revolution and a failed effort to revive sumptuary laws, as fashion shifted away from buckles to ribbons.
A Margery Daw column describes how gowns mix bold florals with dark accents. Black tulips and velvet knots appear beside pink and violet blooms, with lace bodices, satin ribbons, and butterfly accents in coordinated coiffures.
An illustration shows a rivet embedded in a mix of iron oxide sand and aluminum powder placed in a wooden box. A top layer of aluminum powder with oxide and a short aluminum ribbon ends is ignited by lighting a magnesium fuse. More sand covers the mixture to conserve heat.
Echols recalls saving a young Moqui girl from a rattlesnake and receiving her bead necklace. The Ninth Army officer, near death, discusses duties and debts while Dr Craik and Mrs Washington grieve. He dies peacefully after aloud pronouncements and a composed widow.
From Tit Bits: The prince of Wales is the heaviest risk for insurance patrons with potential costs to English German French and American companies of at least £2,000,000. A notable 20 percent of policies implicate him, yet most of the coverage benefits his family little.
The famed landscape painter Giovanni Segantini whose death was recently announced was at work on a colossal panorama of the Alps for a Paris exhibition. Born in 1858 at Arco Tyrol he faced a romantic early life, running away at seven and later drawing pastoral scenes from his farm life in Milan before gaining fame.
The article notes that among France honors is the right to wear a tiny red ribbon bow in the buttonhole. It references the Legion of Honor as part of the honors system and mentions its status.
A recollection of Horace Mann and a reform school speech shows the speaker’s conviction that saving even one boy justifies the expense, and in private, a critic pressed him to color the remark. Mann’s reply was stark and personal: Not if it were my boy.
From Juige Edythe notes a Transvaal war will boost diamond costs. Beatrice laments the tough time for girls to get engaged as prices rise and relations grow strained.
Treasury bureau figures show ten months of tropical and subtropical imports totaling 280.6 million dollars, a yearly pace above 300 million, with Cuba and other Caribbean regions leading sugar and coffee imports while East Indies exports surge. The broad range includes silk tea rice sugar coffee rubber fibers and cabinet woods, underscoring U S dependence on distant sources.
President Wheeler argues language and literature shape living minds, not rigid logic. Minds grow by engaging with living soul content, while formal syllogistic reasoning has little practical value. He cites Chinese mandarins as practical logicians and warns against pretenders who rely on perfect syllogisms.
Leonard Vantiffelen of Austinfriars is said to inherit 390000 from a great uncle who served as an admiral in the Dutch navy and fought Malay pirates. The estate, invested through a Java planter, has grown lucrative, making the former church verger and caretaker the beneficiary according to reports in the London Telegraph.
In a lively Chicago News column, Quinn jokes that when women imagine themselves as wits they become a community menace. DeFonte counters by noting a humorous jab about wit and marriage, as Quinn quips his wife asked if a sea horse relates to a bay mare.
The Malay language is spoken by more than 40 million people and is described as easy to learn because it has almost no grammar.
The Orange Free State coat of arms features an orange tree centered on a field with a lion on one side and a lamb on the other beneath a motto reading Freedom Immigration Patience Courage. The lion and lamb emblem alludes to peace within borders, not the republics location between British and Transvaal realms, per the Philadelphia Record.
A humorous exchange about dinner ends with an ad from Dr. H. H. Green's Sons of Atlanta Ga offering free treatment for dropsy. The firm bills itself as the greatest dropsy specialists in the world and invites readers to read their advertisement in another column.
Quote from the Indianapolis Journal notes a humorous view of golf culture. A playful exchange asks why Mr. Poddington is so devoted, answering that someone always hosts a dinner after the game. The item captures light sports-page chatter of social golfing circles.
Free sample offer for Allen's Foot-Ease powder from Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York. Claims to cure chilblains sweating damp swollen aching feet ease tight shoes and act as an instant remedy for corns and bunions with retail price 25 cents at druggists and shoe stores.
A reader reports a stenographer misaddressed at home cards, sending them to a list of creditors instead of the intended recipient. The note references a Life quotation about Mrs W and mentions a 19th century cure ad for Piso’s Cure for Consumption with a dated postmark August 26, 18u5 from Fabucher La.
An Indianapolis Journal note records Meana of Grace lamenting flagging church interests and proposing a bazaar or revival to rekindle activity. The brief item highlights a community effort to mobilize parish involvement and raise funds.
A jumble of ads and quack lines tout a home remedy claim for curing a cold in one day with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, with refund guarantees and signature on each box. It also includes unrelated notes about barbed wire from the U.S. to South Africa, a boarding-house style office boy hero, and assorted humorous maxims.
A misfired remark leads to a debate as a speaker questions why a woman would seek suffrage since she already holds office. The back and forth shifts to a lighter note about a bachelor claiming a wife is handy for blaming mishaps around the house.
A Fargo North Dakota testimonial extols combined Medicine and Electricity as the cure for years of rheumatism. The writer says pain is gone and urges others to seek X Ray examination and treatment at the Electro Medical and Surgical Institute, expressing renewed hope and gratitude.
Ann E Gridley wife of Gridley commander of Deweys flagship Olympia praises Peruna as grand tonic and a woman’s friend. Ad claims catarrh causes most illnesses and states Peruna cures catarrh anywhere with free book from Dr Hartman Columbus Ohio.
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