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Newspaper
Medicine Hat News
Location
Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
2
In a desert pit, engineer Jukes endures brutal control by rival captors led by Gunga Dass. He negotiates conditions to survive and plans escape amid death, cannibalism, and a hidden inmate whose identity may unlock the mystery of the grisly prison.
New square parasols attract attention as stylish novelties. Heavy grosgrain silk carries Versinn designs in soft cachetre colors or pink and black. Floral designs with satin borders, fringed edges, and very long bamboo handles add a chic, original sunshade look as pictured in Vogue.
The piece notes grapes as a craze in spring millinery with daring, original effects. The popular presentation features a gradual color shift from pale mauve to pale green, a spectrum not exactly natural yet plausible enough to avoid comment.
The article describes collarless Etons, spotted veils with smaller dots, velvet and woven dot fabrics, white veiling with black spots, and gray mesh effects. Mohair jackets, pastel colors, lace robes, light gloves in lilac and cream, enamel buttons, detachable sailor collars, washable salts, and long pendent ruffs mark a chic, diverse fashion season with scarves and Maltese styles noted.
A humorous line from the Boston Herald depicts a patient berating a doctor for sending him to the country for malaria and the doctor retorts that he indeed contracted it. The exchange highlights a comic clash over medical treatment and expectations.
A jumble of quips on happiness wisdom and gender from a Chicago News column. The pieces joke about contentment not having what you want thinking and timing in life with a sly note on relationships and opportunity.
Joseph Jefferson engages in memoir writing while Senator Pettus pursues golf as recreation. Joseph A. Coram donates 20000 dollars to Bates College for a new library in Lewiston Maine. James B. Stetson acts as an engineer for the Northern Pacific Coast railroad. Sawyer of Wisconsin boasted of bills that always pass. A Washington palinist says he received a print of President Kruger's hand. Cam Paul’s lifeline predicts the Transvaal president living to 104. Eugene Vivier, famed cornetist, resembled Napoleon III. M Hippolyte Jayr, last minister under Louis Philippe, dies at 89. Major Louis Seymour, “millionaire major,” leads Johannesburg engineers into the British army. Henry M. Rose, new Senate clerk, is a journalist and former Benton Palladium proprietor. August Belmont funds a monument in Mount Morris Park with sculptor George B. Bissell aiming for 50000. Redvers Buller nicknamed “The Berryman” in England for river crossings or cash from Boers. The Duke of Norfolk’s sword is blessed in a Roman Catholic chapel by Cardinal Vaughan before Africa. Hans Bettner and wife, longtime Whiting Indiana residents, quarrel over cable power in Chicago and reunite with police mediation.
The Turf Review notes Redmont replacing Red Ink in stakes chatter and highlights Hazeltier as a promising trotter owned by St Hl Apple of West Chester. It cites Red Sovereign aiming for sub 2 10, Colonel Cochran’s mile in 2 18, Praytell’s 2 09 lineage, Onoqua 2 08 with Stamboul foal, and Oddity 2 10 practice on half mile tracks in PA, OH, WV.
Reports show farmers leaving upper Michigan for the Dakotas and San Diego where a lemon grove of 1000 acres, begun in 1890 with 170 acres, claims to be the world’s largest. Shamrock seed sent to South Africa will be sown on Irish soldiers’ graves. The Connecticut Institute and Industrial Home For the Blind publishes Talks and Tales, with inmates doing all typesetting. A Filipino market worker in Manila is seen smoking a large cigar in a Jow necked gown with embroidered silk scarf.
A Chicago Inter Ocean piece describes barbers using compressed air on customers. The device dries faces after shaves, cools the scalp after haircuts, and could spray perfumes. It is praised for efficiency and growing popularity, with early adopters in a North Side hotel Lasalle Street shop and State Street skyscraper shops.
A German visitor, vouched for by English connections, gained access to restricted Gibraltar top area after social easing by officials. He received hospitality and a pass to view fortifications, then sent a flawless set of photographs of all works to the German war office, revealing Gibraltar’s defenses.
A Munich book seller holds what may be the oldest printed book, examined by German experts and M Rechn, with claims it predates the Psalter of 1457. A French scholar argues it dates before 1450 and could be by Gutenberg, prompting excitement over a potential first printed work.
A Magoffin County resident reports about 1700 voters in the county with one seventh from three families. He cites 04 Howards including roughly half Democrats and half Republicans, 87 Patricks with 77 Republicans and 10 Democrats, and $1 Amett with 70 Democrats and two Republicans.
The Geographical Society of Philadelphia will set oak casks afloat north of Alaska with a bottle inside each to be filled by the Hader-Chicago Chronicle. The plan aims to prove a northeast drift of Alaskan waters within four to five years as casks drift between Greenland and Spitzbergen.
The article notes that the first milliard of minutes since our chronology will be reached at 10 40 a m on April 10 1902 marking a long time milestone in timekeeping and calendar history.
In a Boston Transcript verse, Theodore I Snelling laments ships at anchor while steam era steamships rise. The stately craft once sailed far and wide but now wait idle as Progress and grayhounds take their place, marking a sea change in maritime travel.
Lalage Otway schemes to keep her lover Captain Dalrymple by pretending fidelity while receiving gifts from Sophie Dalrymple. Jim suspects the affair after a birthday ring arrives, then Sophie’s reported death reveals the cruel truth behind the supposed kindness.
A portrait of John B. Gough who carried two overcoats on lecture tours for 40 years. He ended shows dripping with perspiration, cooled by rubbing down like a race horse. Mrs Gough waited with fresh clothing and his routine included bread and milk after each lecture.
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