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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1896
Page
2
In Paris scientists have altered flowers by perfuming or masking their natural scents. A box lined with ice and pipes filled with perfume bearing carbonic acid gas strengthens fragrance for days. Methods include soaking, bromated water, or grafting scents from one bloom to another to create roses violets and marigolds with new perfumes.
The text offers scattered home tips and notes on animals cooking and painting. It mentions cuttlefish defense with ink, caterpillars’ taste, New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and practical teaching demand. It includes cooking partridge, odor control by red pepper, and methods for preparing outdoor paint and varnish with oils and driers.
The London Spectator notes fur scarcity and proposes breeding fur animals on Siberian farms. A March 4 1629 record recalls King James granting land from Merrimac to near the Charles River, west to the Pacific, to twenty seven people led by Pynchon as The governor and company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England.
Cornelia Weekes widow of a Brooklyn undertaker died on Saturday May 4 at her home in Brooklyn at age 70. Her brother Henry I Auert aged 74 died the next day at the same residence. Both had been invalids for over a year and died of heart disease. The New York Athletic Club lists an owner of DieyeMen who has logged 13,000 miles at an average of thirty-one miles per day over the year.
The verse recalls how pride and anger split lovers until brief reconciliation leads to renewed harmony. A maiden and a suitor exchange hasty words and glances, each testing forgiveness before a kiss ends their brief quarrel. Set in St Paul, the scene centers on romantic tension and reconciliation.
In a tale set around Broadwater, Colonel Pairholme tensions over a two acre field spark a family rift. Evelyn and Dick expect reconciliation within weeks as Colonel Pairholme heads to Australia to his new life and a surprising marriage to Horace Fairholme’s widow unfolds. Dick encounters Mrs. Fairholme abroad and notices her altering motives as letters from Melbourne arrive.
Dick delays as Mrs Fairholme schemes to seize the family jewels from the strong room. A locksmith, forged letters, and a London jeweller complicate the theft until Colonel Fairholme returns aboard the Australia mail steamer Oratova. Dick is thanked by the colonel after thwarting the scheme.
A busy woman describes compiling a personal anthology of quotations, reading with pencil and notebook since girlhood. She notes how she saves clever lines during travel and keeps the volume for solace, cheer, and guidance, calling it an old friend. Harper's Bazaar.
A critique notes The Thekh performance with Ellen Terry as a precocious 1 year old child acting as Puck. The reviewer praises the costume a dark brownish red gown trimmed with moss and lichens and a blonde crown. Describes Terry's appearance as dominant though harsh, and recalls two stage tricks where Puck vanished and then flew, achieved by machinery.
A collection of miscellaneous observations on insult in Molianimedane, bread pricing in cold weather, Scotland’s cultivated acres, Amsterdam Hebrews in diamond trade, England’s gold stock, Chinese vermilion symbolism, industrial accidents at end shifts, Chinaman practices after limb loss, Washington street trees, and Boston tramp policies amid reform debates.
Ten men and women risked their lives during a Cleveland blaze. Charles Watkins woke his wife and baby then helped Misses Mary and Anna Cox reach a fire escape. He reopened a door and guided the group while Mae Burk descended. Miss Mary Cox leaped from a window but was caught by Charles Wesley and Louis Traves, who saved her though they were knocked down. She suffered a broken arm and minor burns.
A high profile divorce case in Galesburg, NL centered on Flora J. Stewart and A. H Stewart. Stewart married Flora at age 12 in 1895, making her 13 now while he is 42. He filed a cross bill. she accused him of indiscretions. The court dismissed her bill for want of equity and granted the defendants divorces.
An intoxicated Osage rode a horse into a dance hall at the Horseshoe Bend school base on the Arkansas river near Ferry Ont. causing a stampede that injured several young women. An all round fight followed as men tried to eject the rider. Carl Bradley WI Hopper Sim Pershall Ludlow Mitchell and the Misses Nettie Pershall and Lena Wischer were hurt. The Indian was beaten into unconsciousness and a young woman was fatally hurt by the horse.
At Carey's Run Ohio a grand school exhibition featured a boxing bout between John Mershon middleweight champion and Jack Laventer lightweight from Barkey Creek. Both fighters were present but manager Hiram Jordan interfered. The crowd at Carey's Run was reported as the maddest in the country.
A six year old boy named Robert Kidd escaped death in Chester Pennsylvania when his hip became caught in the wheel of a passing Sivania iron road car. His brother, playing nearby, alerted adults who freed him. He was shaken but uninjured.
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