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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1903
Page
2
A compact literary fragment attributed to Thomas K Hervey. It laments misplaced affection as a loving breast offers rest for a weary head yet retains the ache within. The tone is mournful, emphasizing unreciprocated care and inner suffering in restrained poetic style.
An old Secret Service man recalls a case along the Ohio Valley where a dark-eyed stranger led to a hidden counterfeit operation. A shipboard box of tobacco concealed counterfeit coins, and a raid uncovered a two-story mint in a Kentucky ravine, found via a hidden cellar trap door and a light from a nonexistent window.
An Edinburgh Medical Journal account by James A. Lawson details being dragged underwater by a foundering steamer. He describes extreme chest pain from pressure, repeated gulping of water, and fading breath before consciousness returned and he reached the surface aided by a life belt.
A once poor man recalls the relief and business boost from saving enough to bury his family without help. He explains how the ability to cover funeral costs eased anxiety, built confidence, and aided his financial progress after marriage.
A Maryville street exhorter clashed with authorities last week refusing to end his sermon. The marshal struck him after he resisted arrest and the preacher shouted amen. He argued to leave town or toil 100 days on the rock pile, then disappeared. The incident drew cheers and a brief public rebuke from Mayor Garrett.
A clipped quotation from Frank L. Stanton printed in the Atlanta Constitution speaks of moving toward a hopeful May. The verse reflects perseverance through cold crosses toward sweeter rest and a day that promises meaning beyond the present season.
Captain Scott and the Discovery push 100 miles closer to the pole than any prior expedition. He reports a vast, previously unknown mountainous region suggesting land may extend to the pole in lofty ranges.
A long reflective piece traces a village well from mossy buckets to a modern waterworks, using the well to critique community kindness and greed. It contrasts shared sustenance with a rich man’s fenced, loveless home, urging open hearts and fraternal care as time reshapes towns. The closing items mix local jokes and notes, including an Iowa editor tax tale and quips about Lipton and Fables in Slang.
A Victorian era section presents a vegetarian soup recipe using potatoes Jerusalem artichokes and white carrots with oiling steps and serving options including toast or mashed vegetables fried cakes. It also describes a unisex dress pattern for children with a Russian front and box plaited back suitable for boys up to four and girls to six with gendered styling notes.
The article describes gray tea gowns as a fashionable home wear choice, noting crepe and crepe de chine options, pleated silhouettes, Empire sashes, and decorative trims. It discusses gray as versatile and flattering, with styles featuring lace, net borders, and subtle color accents, plus care tips for zinc cleaning with turpentine.
A vivid catalog of summer wear and home decor covering wrist bags in white pique, jeweled fringes, ivory combs, and butterfly diamond hair pins. It also explores Chinese vigogne fabric, turquoise linen gowns, and black lace over Swiss muslin, plus hat styles and a sailor crown. The piece shifts to interior drapery design emphasizing harmony and line, then to advice for young mothers, tailoring, taffeta blouses, kimono dresses, and the benefits of light gymnastics for women.
The article offers practical carving of everyday items and beauty tips. It advises soaking lamp wicks in strong vinegar to prevent smoking, drying colored cottons in subdued light to avoid bleaching, and using water with hay to neutralize paint fumes. It also describes pancake digestion, slow soapstone griddle heating, and fringe feather adornments with two-tone ostrich plumes.
Nervous readers recall recipes and household tips on cheese as a sedative and digestion, warming pastry cooling after baking, soaking old cords in paraffin to light fires, and using window wedges to seal bedrooms. The fragment ends mid advice on wedges and windows.
The article notes Santuzza jackets and aprons as quaint home wear morning dress elements. They imitate the heroine in Cavalleria Rusticana and are crafted in silk etamine with trimmed edges.
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