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Newspaper
Fort Macleod Gazette
Location
Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Date
Dec 28, 1900
Page
7
A critique of steel engraving's decline in favor of photography, noting the loss of master engravers, the shift in art markets, and the lasting value of era defining works by Morghen and others. It laments fading craft and explains why later prints lose connoisseur appeal.
The fragment shows a speaker complimenting someone with playful remarks about animals and affection. It includes a quoted line attributed to Thucydides about knowing a thing yet not expressing it, implying a misattributed or misquoted classical reference.
A veteran credit man recalls a May large credit order from a trusted interior town customer who claimed plans to expand and wipe out a rival. An offhand inquiry from a furnishing store spurred suspicion, leading to a late June decision to trim credit lines. The customer vanished for a Manitoba rustic retreat after cashing out.
An advertisement claims Dr Chase Nerve Food rebuilds nerves and blood, boosting energy for overworked Canadians. It cites Mrs. Crow sberry of Toronto praising recovery from nervous prostration after four boxes, with a price of 50 cents a box and a Toronto distributor.
A sentimental poem by S. E. Riser from the Chicago Times-Herald depicts an elderly couple. The man, frail and guarded, supports his wife as she ascends stairs, their fifty years together seen in gentle, enduring love. The scene contrasts youth and age with quiet devotion.
James Birney, an American in Paris on the eve of the Franco Prussian war, seeks to pitch a bullet proof vest to Napoleon. After a prankish claim to improve the emperor’s nose, Birney feverishly pursues a scheme, faces police warnings, and endures imprisonment before a final, quixotic interview about nose alignment. The piece closes with brief notes on Japanese and Chinese symbols in ceramics and a light anecdote about improving opportunities for a grandchild visit.
A speculative essay predicts the United States will see steady progress over the next century. It anticipates urban growth, rising populations in cities like New York and Chicago, and a shift to municipal ownership of utilities. Advances in science, wireless tech, air travel, and food production could raise living standards while reducing toil and disease.
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