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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1896
Page
3
A long discourse argues that women largely initiate marriage proposals in leap years and in all years influence courtships. it cites a Poughkeepsie correspondent and notes women’s mastery in romance while cautioning against arrogance. The piece blends social opinion with humorous asides and moral commentary.
A Washington evening party included a western congressman's wife who joked she proposed to her husband not in leap year. She described a long courtship where the husband wooed her with affection over years, then grew shy about expressing love before finally proposing.
A collage of practical household advice covers mending glass with gum arabic cement, clarifying butter with salt and soda, preventing scorching with a water dish in ovens, and warns about fruit skins harboring microbes. It advises loose clothing in cold weather, a lemon sugar cough syrup, leather refinishing with French polish, and proper fish handling from freezing to thawing. Also notes on preventing clumping when chopping suet and a Camembert glass dish vented with a silver stand.
Edmund Clarence Stedman lauds Eugene Field as a modern jester akin to historic wise fools, tracing his charm to nature and frontier wit. He recalls a Chicago lecture, a spoof column about his reception, and a popular verse skit inspired by a mispronounced nickname Gene.
The Rev. Wm. P. F. Ferguson recounts a 3000 mile cycling tour through Canada and the U S in early 1841. He details wind, rain, and rheumatic pain that followed, his sea of injuries, and eventual improvement after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a blood builder and nerve restorer. He urges readers to consider the pills for similar ailments and notes their availability by mail order.
A fragmented directory-style item lists local Scranton merchants by trade with partial addresses. It enumerates bedding, china and glassware, toys, dairy, dry goods, hardware, watches, furniture, groceries, hotels, paper, athletic goods, and more, with multiple firms and street locations on Lackawanna and nearby avenues.
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