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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1900
Page
8
A temperance speaker parodies history using vivid drunk caricatures of Columbus Washington and Hancock. He argues abstinence yields fame, contrasts scenes of intoxication with pivotal moments, and lampoons public drinking to promote sobriety. The piece includes satirical portraits and a call to cease liquor consumption.
A garbled reminiscence blends temperance satire with colonial-era patriotism. It references William Penn era figures, King George, and drink lore, arguing cold water with buttermilk and root beer fosters patriots and statesmen, urging abstention from whisky and ale.
A Chicago Inter Ocean report notes courts in Georgia Nebraska and Iowa ruling against using sun time over standard time in legal actions. It cites a Georgia appeal verdict rendered after noon sun time but before noon standard time, a Nebraska summons decided by standard time, and an Iowa insurance policy case about noon. The piece emphasizes the need to use standard time for legal deadlines and proceedings.
A New York Italian woman trudges through City Hall Park with a heavy wood bundle balanced on her head. The eight-piece load measures up to inches thick and appears to surpass a typical man’s burden. Two men finally lift and reset the load as she resumes down Center Street.
An English officer riding in Malta asks a native for directions. The man responds with a shrug and no English. When pressed the man admits no Maltese, Arabic, Italian, or Greek knowledge, and the officer repeats insults, while the passerby quietly flags a different companion.
A first person reminiscence recalls Irish church life in Dublin and Whalley in England, highlighting a bishop’s dressing critique and a comic incident with an overdressed congregation. It also describes a rector in England who lectured ex tempore, a vestry mishap, and a vivid scene of social life around a cathedral and a revived laugh in a Dublin pew.
The piece argues English hostesses lose pride in home hospitality as society seeks novelty and shared expenses. It laments a shift from intimate entertaining to restaurant dining and travel, driven by a commercial spirit and changing expectations, endangering the traditional home life of English housewives.
A quirky exchange features Bilkens and Wilkins debating pome as the dearest place on earth with a humorous line about housekeeping and listening. The quotation compares friendship and shared or differing opinions, referencing figures Bilkens and Wilkins and a note from Calumbus State Journal.
The Tennessee Cherokee region features the Cnaka range with its highest peak, a Rattlesnake, towering over 7,000 feet. Twenty-two summits reach about 6,000 feet, and strikingly some opposite peaks share identical heights while others differ by only a few feet, notes the Chicago Record.
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