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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
6
A station agent recalls climbing from messenger to manager and a farewell dinner as colleagues praise his worth. Later a tale follows Miss Percy Hartwell aboard a ship chasing dispatches and a Manila-bound mission, ending with a romantic ring gesture between Lieut. Edward Lehman and Hartwell.
On the steamship Pontic departing San Francisco, Miss Percy Hartwell of Denver seeks the captain’s help to overtake a transport ship and meet someone aboard, using wit and bold diplomacy to press her case as the ship sails toward Honolulu. The scene focuses on Hartwell’s decisive, composed behavior and her quiet influence over Captain Wheelton during an onboard excursion.
The Kos island tree is described as the oldest in the world with legends linking its shade to Hippocrates teaching about healing two millennia ago. Tradition places the tree’s age back to the era of Aesculapius, potentially adding about 400 years to its antiquity per the Chirago Chronicle.
The Chicago Post reports a humorous exchange where a man claims to be breaking his smoking habit by switching to a pipe but his partner notes he smokes nearly constantly. He counters that pipe filling intervals create gaps between Amolites.
A long romance tale from the Everglades ends in tragedy as Mocking Bird, 17, daughter of Turtle Mound’s chief, faces four suitors during the sun dance. Eagle Feather dies after a duel amid jealousy, and Mocking Bird drowns in the river, leaving the tribe in mourning.
Readily usable home guidance covers treating minor kitchen burns and cuts. It recommends a two percent carbolic acid solution for wounds kept in a cabinet, plus mild cauterizing for cat bites with ammonia or carbolic solution, and suggests baking soda paste as a quick burn remedy.
A practical guide from the New York Tribune on repairing worn stockings by inserting a heel patch cut from a stock that cannot be mended further. The method uses crisscross stitches along the seam from B to C, with the patch on the outside heel. Repaired stockings last about twice as long and suit schoolchildren facing winter wear.
Edward Bok argues in Ladies' Home Journal that homes are cluttered by needless possessions and women are overly burdened. He urges minimalism to reclaim happiness, health, and true beauty by restoring natural simplicity and shedding artificial comforts.
A reader recounts a lemon foot-care remedy from Ladies' World. After months of painful corns and calluses, lemon juice baths and thorough rubbing daily for weeks softened skin. The writer claims feet became smooth and fair, with inexpensive, long lasting results.
A misty fragment recalls a playful little wave’s bid to rise above routine. The sea breezes and sun spark a moment of color and joy, as a childlike resolve to become a rainbow outshines the common humdrum tasks. Prescott Spofford appears in a stray reference.
A handsome tortoiseshell cat named Choppie, once with an English girl, Louise, travels across Europe and the Atlantic. The feline accompanies Louise everywhere from London to New York, Florida winters, and various hotels, riding in a padded basket and curling near the piano as music plays.
A California farmer's pony named Ban Jone, beloved by three small children, protected them from a rattlesnake as they gathered nuts. The pony charged, stomped, and stomped again, injuring and ultimately killing the snake while the children watched in awe. The animal then whisked back to work, hailed as a family hero.
A fragment from the Boston Courier quotes a speaker dismissing harsh language about domestic violence as not necessary. The remark contrasts a harsh description with a calmer stance on discussing wrongdoing toward a wife.
A boy recounts a memory from Ohio years ago of a large gobbler chasing him when he visited relatives. He describes turkeys as gobblers due to their repeated gobble, notes red stockings and a red necktie, and recalls changing clothes after the fright. He briefly reflects on early Thanksgiving customs and prefers being a turkey gobbler to a goose.
A simple home game uses ten coat hooks numbered 1 to 10 on a smooth board. Players throw rubber rings from about ten feet to hook onto the hooks, aiming for exactly 100 points. No damage occurs to walls. any boy or girl can improvise the setup using a barrel lid board and a screw eye hanging hole.
A Oregon woman claims her unique hen, said to be the only one in Oregon, fought a chicken hawk as it attacked her brood. The hen delivered a decisive blow, dazing the hawk and sending it tumbling to the ground.
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