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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
3
Chicago Chronicle notes growing demand for tornado and windstorm contracts as insurers market seasonally extended policies. Agents report two main types of coverage, six month wind contracts and annual protections, with widespread customer uptake amid frequent pre summer storms.
Foware Bok argues in Ladies' Tome Journal that a young man under thirty is not ready to marry. He lacks self knowledge, steadiness, and practical foundations for happiness with a wife. The piece claims men mature by about thirty and rarely marry the girl they fancied at twenty.
A New York businessman's study displays wallpaper valued at 400000 though it is made of thousands of six percent bonds printed at 2500 for a company that failed to attract investors and dissolved before launch. The scene is framed by a sharp quip about winding up the clock factory across the street.
The piece portrays a Texas representative with a 612 line entry in the congressional directory. He began as a rural schoolteacher aided by his wife, later studied law, served in the Civil War, and rose to multiple reelections in Congress, illustrating a lifetime shaped by early frontier hardship and self-tought schooling.
A Well Merited Retort recalls Sutherland Tenney a New York lawyer who graduated from Columbia Law in 1875 winning first prize worth 500 dollars. A rival joked about illegible thesis and Tenney advised better practice in all work.
A classroom tale from Syracuse Star about a student who fled a potential paddling after his mother questions the incident. The boy explains the teacher planned a punishment, but he slipped away unseen.
Nine rats wiped out a 48 strong prairie dog colony in Lincoln Park, leaving skeletal remains and sparking plans to import new stock. The incident prompted heightened precautions and highlights of rat predation on small mammals in urban parks.
A historical commentary suggests Italy will face commercial warfare in three years. It argues the triple alliance has yielded sacrifices yet leaves Italy squeezed like a lemon. The Rome Messagero proposes an alliance with France and Spain as politically and economically advantageous.
The Marquis of Normanby once a clergyman and now a Windsor canon faced heavy encumbrances on his estates. He became a schoolmaster and opened a preparatory school to earn income for his noble estate.
Exchange shows a writer claiming a letter was never received because the handwriting was unreadable. The reply confirms the letter existence but notes it could not be decoded, leaving the correspondence unresolved.
A Wash ington Star letter from a Chicago stockyards employee describes a system where deodorized fats, offal, and oiled barrels are processed into oleomargarine and butterine. He alleges fat stock contamination and wide use of inferior materials, with factories buying stockyards fat, and packinghouse byproducts sold as butterine at low prices. The letter notes growing national interest in the oleomargarine bill and broad newspaper coverage.
Mary L. Mullett reports from Kirriemuir on J M Barrie's fame and local ambivalence. Residents admire his fortune and works yet dismissive of the thrums as useless scraps. They debate whether Barrie ridiculed Kirriemuir and envy his global success.
A man with ten to twelve years of chronic rheumatism finds relief after two months at a renowned health resort baths. Neighbors report he appears happier yet his wife notes he remains quiet, lacking topics to discuss. Youth's Companion quotes the exchange.
In Ensley Alabama 18 months ago the population was 500 and now it has risen to 5000. The boom is tied to steel mills the rod mill and other industries attracting workers and families.
The Constantinople correspondent notes humorous and harsh censorship in the capital. Reporters face strict word bans, altered lines, and euphemisms like East Rumelian Vilayet for Bulgaria while telegrams are delayed or sent by mail to avoid censor scrutiny, costing the state thousands in lost revenue.
In a quiet moment a man explains how he backed the horse that faded in the final stretch, only to watch the winner neck and neck with the filly. Their exchange turns to a shared reverie as they enact a racing scene in pantomime, the half light framing their moment.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt notes a western bride scattered the cremated ashes of her first husband on the front steps on a slippery day last winter to keep her second husband from slipping, surpassing Lord Raleigh’s cloak sacrifice.
At a New York real estate auction a man raised his own bid by 500 dollars and the property was knocked down to him. The Chicago Times-Herald laments New York as a favorite haunt for gold brick operators and quick riches schemes.
Items cover pickled figs from California and slow heating of Flatirons to avoid cracking. New York spent 200000 on bakery inspections. San Francisco’s Japanese population projected at 20000. Also notes on borax for blondes, soap to seal leaks, meat portions, ship routes to Montreal, and early phonograph telephone hybrids by M Dussand and Herr Poulsen.
A Chicago Times-Herald report recounts a crowded North State street car incident where a young man left a parcel behind. A conductor forced a revealing exchange as a woman claimed the item contained her wearing apparel and faced public scrutiny.
The proposed Quebec and Lake Huron railroad would run 440 miles from the mouth of the French River to Quebec, crossing the Ottawa and St. Maurice. It opens 3,600,000 acres of forest and farm land to wheat growing with grain elevators planned. Canada also has other undeveloped wheat regions, which may ease shortages once opened.
A humorous fragment shows Mrs Newed joking about going overboard and Mr Newed offering life preservers as a dramatic rescue. The dialogue uses playful banter with exaggerated concern and affection reflected in a Chicago Evening News style quip.
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