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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1900
Page
2
In a South African setting, wounded riders save a barely living young girl, Bluebell, carrying her to safety near a farmhouse. Elizabeth's fate and the village’s kindness unfold as a farmer tends her and medical hopes flicker, amid wartime hardship and thirst.
Bluebell and Adair Rothes endure siege and trial in Natal during the Boer War. After a hospital stay and a perilous rescue, they uncover that Bluebell is the heiress to a fortune, complicating their union. They marry despite danger, finding strength in love and faith as they face an uncertain future together.
A monthly column argues women shape society and influence male faults. It asserts fault grows where women do not demand higher standards, and that treatment of working women by others reflects back on men. It contrasts gentler treatment with that given to working women and calls for mutual respect.
A youthful aspiring lawyer once asked a classmate for a written excuse to cover a hockey absence. The note requested the teacher to give Sam a whipping, and sealed it. Sam presented it, the teacher acted, and Sam received a whipping, learning not to play hockey again.
A visitor comments on Bobby’s banked money as he explains his mother gives him ten cents weekly for coming to the table with clean hands and face. He notes this is a good amount for a boy, but only after a lot of work is done.
A devotional poem reflects on Jesus urging a brotherhood among believers and pursuing the Father’s will, while Mary Senior Clark signs a meditation on kinship and divine purpose. The piece transitions to Sir Henry Thompson’s stance on alcohol, quoted from Medical Temperance Review, praising abstinence and warning on moderate drinking’s societal harm.
The article advises a vapor bath to treat colds with a warm room and boiled water to create steam, plus a robe and blanket for the patient. It also cautions against drinking while eating while iced drinks are harmful, recommends a moderate temperature drink with meals, and suggests a pint of cold water every morning to relieve constipation and improve appetite.
A saloon owner in New York quits the liquor business after eleven years, citing ruined customers who lose money, homes, and credit. He recalls twenty former patrons worth 100000 to 500000 each now penniless. Detroit organizes for prohibition with village-scale canvassing and frequent meetings, enrolling voters who backed the previous ticket.
The idea that malarial fevers are caused by mosquito bites is increasingly accepted among European physicians as more evidence supports the mosquito transmission theory.
Ex mayor Campbell of Bowling Green Ohio gained fame for eccentric governance. He fined himself, punished youths with church attendance or jail, and used novel ruses such as peaches in a bid to reform offenders. He also backed forced labor for vagrants and charged visiting tramps to work for meals at a hotel.
A hill on the Santa Fe road near Williams Arizona contains a two and a half foot aperture leading to a cavern filled with ice. Locals crawl through the opening to break off ice year round. The cavern’s origin remains unknown and speculation cites ground elements affecting groundwater.
The Burlington will offer round trip tickets from Denver to Chicago St Louis Peoria and Missouri River points on June 7 and 12. Tickets cost one fare plus $2 and are valid for return until October 1. Open to all. G W Vallery general agent.
Take advantage of Union Pacific excursion rates with one fare plus $2 for round trips to Chicago St Louis St Paul Minneapolis Duluth Milwaukee Kansas City Omaha and many other points. Tickets on sale July 12 20 and August 4 at Final Hmstocranes Ticket Office Smith street.
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