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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1895
Page
12
A long excerpt presents moral parenting guidance, with emphasis on motherhood duties, education, and emotional restraint. It discusses the physical and moral responsibilities of mothers, infant care, and child training, contrasting past and present practices and urging informed, educated motherhood and proper nursing.
A fragmented 19th century style list offers household tips. It includes vinegar on sausages, using sawdust and chamomile to polish glass, removing rusty screws with hot iron, and preserving water by sun drying. It also describes making a wall shelf from pasteboard, using brown paper and hot flattening to fix indentations, and washing white chamois gloves with a soapy lather.
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal shows a young man named Wontin lamenting his finances. He recalls saving billiard money and living on beans to fund an opera and supper for a young woman. He recounts asking her to marry him and a listener notes she feared he was too extravagant to be a good husband.
Strong concert lineup at First Presbyterian Elm Park and Washburn Street churches features Tallie Morgan led choir Miss Julia Clapp Allen and Fred Widmayer violinists Pennington organist at Elm Park and a 20 voice Washburn Street chorus with violin solos by KR Raver. Noted talents Burt Bloom Madame Lillian Blauvelt and William Griffiths linked to local performances and future plans.
The New York Press recalls Albert Lortaing born ninety two years ago and who died in misery. A monument is planned to honor him on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, with possible locations in Berlin or Lelpaic where his operas premiered.
Primrose and West minstrel company headlines at the Academy of Music with a record audience draw. Frothingham presents the Garrick Burlesque company with Thrilby and Chimmie Fadden at Frothingham and Davis’ theaters. Colton and Eyne bring Lost in New York to the Academy with a water stage finale. Scranton theaters report 9,000 Christmas-day attendees as three houses run near capacity.
In London, William Nicholl teaches vocal pupils with Mrs Helen Frost, delivering Boulton's North songs to an elite audience. Queen's Hall hosts Randegger conducting Samson with Davies Mills Estey and Brophy, while Forbes Robertson and Mrs Campbell star in Romeo and Juliet at the Lyceum. The Royal Academy winds down before a three week holiday.
Two men on Seventh and Vine struggle with a telegram's illegible writing. They seek help at a local pharmacy where a prescription clerk deciphers it and hands over a bottle for sixty cents. The note then reads One teaspoonful to be taken three times every hour.
An Arnprior Ont. druggist promotes No-To-Bac with letters claiming it cures long tobacco habits and restores health. Testimonies allege relief from nervous distress appetite issues and weight gain, urging readers to procure the remedy with guarantees and free literature.
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