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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1913
Page
7
A vintage guide urges thoughtful handmade gifts over costly purchases. It suggests sachets, decorative cushions, college girl shoe bags, trunk covers, lace collars, beaded slipper bows, and practical items like travel pillows and linen envelopes as inexpensive, thoughtful options.
A long, mixed article offers holiday gift ideas and handmade decor. It describes ribbon crafts, aprons, sewing bags, boxes, and chafing dish covers, plus baby and man gifts like monogrammed handkerchiefs and shaving pads. It suggests wrapping with holly ribbons for a festive finish.
A Kansas City Star column recalls drought trials in Kansas farmers gardens and a joke about beans covered by dust from passing cars. The piece notes optimism returning in Kearney despite no rain and broom corn projected as a future asset. It also surveys English authors smoking habits with Conan Doyle and Chesterton noted among several writers.
Father Hartman, halted by severe weather, surveys sixty miles of ruins and rock inscriptions from Pines wells near Pintada to lands beyond, uncovering villages 1000 or more years old. Skeletons, urns, pottery, tools, and weapons found, with vigorous granite wall scenes of hunt and symbolic figures like the plumed serpent and forked lightning. A new parachute patent uses hemispherical buoyant devices fastened to a harness instead of an umbrella.
Mary Crawford faces a lonely birthday as she guards a secret keepsake and a promise to care for Barbara Arnold. Gilbert Arnold returns home from imprisonment to claim Mary and Barbara, revealing a rekindled love and a new life.
J F Barnett, composer aged seventy six, remains active in music. He comes from a musical family with his father and uncles as composers, another uncle a dramatic writer and operatic librettist, and his mother a musician. His grandfather was a second cousin of Meyerbeer. Barnett debuted in 1838 with the New Philharmonic Society at Exeter Hall and has just completed a cantata inspired by Neats Eve of St Agnes.
William A. Radford promotes building fireproof suburban or country houses with reinforced cement plaster walls and expanded metal lath. The plan features a large first floor with parlor and reception hall, four upstairs bedrooms, a $4,000 estimated cost, and a steel reinforced cement terrazzo floor. The article details wall and roof construction, fire safety emphasis, and an option for slate or corrugated steel roofs.
A Washington hotel lobby conversation recalls a joke about government office ambition and earning two thousand a year filing fountain pens for the Treasury. The piece explains Indian Summer as a mild October or November spell with calm skies and warm days, followed by frost, and notes the audience’s reaction to a performer in the show.
A Bodley Society address by Frederic Harrison urges reading Holy Scriptures in English. Oliver Smeaton notes R. L. Stevenson prized Bible prose, claiming he knew much of the Testament by heart and favored the last fifteen chapters of Isaiah as his supreme sacred writing.
A giant timber structure under construction for the Panama-Pacific Exposition is noted for its vast scale. The machinery hall, with a floor area over eight acres and a height of 125 feet, will use about 7,500,000 board feet of lumber, signaling a major monumental use of wood in a country where timber is costly and hard to obtain in large sizes.
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