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Newspaper
Mora Tribune
Location
Mora, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1895
Page
3
A verse extols the duty of the gifted to aid others. It compares the strong to the forest king and the eagle, urging those with gifts to give and to live virtuously, contrasting them with the giftless who live barren lives. The speaker invokes fate and grace guiding brave deeds and generous conduct.
A distraught account of Mary McCauley and her father as debt and ruin push toward a grim choice. Carter plans to take Mary to Europe to further her music education while aiding McCauley in the meantime. The debtor’s offer hinges on selling Mary for wealth, leaving her shaken after a late night farewell.
In 1895 a Scotch Irishman McCauley built Folsom’s furnace near Chartersville Cartersville in Lycoming valley. He borrowed from Richard Carter Tamaqua bank president and husband of a wealthy heiress. McCauley’s daughter Mary grows restless seeking teaching work while Carter appears charming yet unscrupulous amid a harsh labor environment.
A Philadelphia Times report details Mary McCauley’s manipulation by Carter in Cartersville. Carter quarreled over debt, she entered a seminary, wed a volatile Smith, and Carter died by a pistol shot. Mary’s fate remains unknown amid Civil War upheaval.
A Duluth correspondent reports Mesaba range production soaring with 1895 output estimated at 3,000,000 tons, compared with 2,245 tons in 1892 and rising figures in prior years. The piece praises local capitalists, cites Adams Mountain and Lake Superior mines, and notes large investments with no dividends yet, acknowledging limited profits amid competition and market pressures.
A twelve man prospecting party from San Bernardino stalks north. Franck the Swede, famed for killing bears, is killed in a brutal fight with a silver tip. He falls from a precipice after grappling the bear to death. The camp learns of the tragedy as doctors uncover a chaotic scene involving a poisoned girl and a dramatic rescue.
The dry Sunday boosts bottled cocktail sales, especially in east side bars. Patrons drink what they need up to midnight Saturday and face a wide array of detectable compounds in bottle offerings priced for varying pockets.
A dramatic exchange features a gaunt man calling a doctor a miserable quack after receiving advice to rest. He proclaims, I’m a walking delegate, as tension rises in the Washington Star style dialogue.
Doctors discuss extraordinary items a person might swallow. Dr Longbow recalls a carpenter who, while holding a gimlet, hiccuped and swallowed it. he survived. A countermusing remark suggests the danger of swallowing stories.
The piece notes workers leaving cities during the 1895 panic to farm in Northwestern Minnesota. It highlights fertile lands between St. Paul and Duluth with millions of acres available for settlement at low prices and easy terms. A pamphlet detailing the region is mailed free by Hopewell Clarke, Land Commissioner, St. Paul & Duluth Railroad.
A Aberdeen minister and a widow confide as she seeks relief from torment over remarriage. The widow reveals this is her fourth marriage and laments the fate of having married several men who died, describing herself as tormented by such husbands.
A short exchange between Pacific Pete and a young tenderfoot features a dramatic line about losing an eye. The veteran recounts the incident bluntly, claiming he cut it out to avoid being shot by a gun.
Report describes an incident where two young girls are hospitalized following a medical mishap. The article references Carrie Runk and her father Kem, detailing the confusion surrounding a medical procedure.
A Medford, Massachusetts wedding tale unfolds as a widow remarries her presumed-dead first husband at his grave. A carriage of five arrives, clergyman conducts the ceremony, and the bride reveals white wedding garments beneath a black cloak. The lawyers, lovers, and mystery surround the 26 year separation.
The Westminster Gazette notes Alexandre Dumas has published aphorisms reflecting on genius and stupidity. It cites quips about limits to genius, stubborn opinions, child prudence versus great men, and bearing others fortunes in a witty, satirical tone.
Excerpted line from the Chicago Tribune quotes Willie asking his mother if he will be allowed to ride his bicycle in heaven and whether the streets will be sprinkled there as on earth, in a reflective childhood moment.
Henry Maier of Newark recounts his relief from headaches and nervousness after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He describes initial weakness, a nervous tremor, and later improvement following the prescribed regimen. Pills advertised as restoring blood and nerves are sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady.
A sermon scene shows a deacon advising his son Ben about venturing into the world. He warns against entering the poultry business when the moon shines, conveying caution and moral instruction in dialect.
A fragment from the Detroit Tribune notes a solitary poet seeking a woman, interrupted by a katydid chorus. The voice of the insect breaks the scene as the poet presses forward amid ambiguous solitude.
One hundred dollars reward offered for any catarrh cure not helped by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F J Cheney & Co of Toledo endorsed by Walding Kinnan & Marvin as trustworthy and able to fulfill obligations. Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Manuals free, price 75 cents per bottle, sold by druggists. Hall's Family Pills also advertised.
A humorous Chicago Record item depicts a pair of wheelmen discussing a machine in a dry district. One rider boasts of tires pumped with a dangerous “red eye” and carries straws for rest, underscoring prohibition era tension.
New subscribers who mail name and address with $1 75 receive a nine color four page calendar 7x10 in a valued 50 cents free weekly issue until Jan 1 1896 plus Thanksgiving Christmas and New Year double numbers and a full year of The Youths Companion to Jan 1 1897 all at 199 Columbus Ave Boston
In a whimsical note from the Detroit Tribune a poet complains that a locomotive nicknamed iron horse is unfairly treated as a back number. The muse shivers as he searches for a rhyme for bicycle and finds only icicle.
Reed writing implements with split ends like quills were discovered in Egyptian tombs and are dated to about 2,500 years before Christ. The find suggests early pen technology used by ancient scribes.
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