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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1900
Page
2
A poetic tribute describes a delicate flower in twilight calm, praising its fragrance, beauty, and silent devotion. The verse likens blooms to heavenly purity and suggests mortals and angels may learn from its modest, steadfast spirit amid earthly hills and glens. EDGAR JONES.
Two Virginians Col John Oxheart and Capt George Flint sit to play poker for pennies and rise to a doomed confrontation. The men, famed for courage, duel over a five cent limit, seals on cards, and a tavern standoff that ends with strained reconciliation and a fatal history hinted finale.
Five generations carry a secret card game whose envelopes hold hands. After a fatal day, Gen Carter entrusts the hands to Maj Tolliver. The heirs revive the game through Oxheart and Flint, aging upon a family burden, until a hotel fire ends the record. The envelopes burn, and the truth of ownership is sealed forever.
A Scottish laird and laborer Andrew Leslie encounter a donkey used for work. The laird suspects misbehavior in a clover field. Leslie defends the animal saying the beast only eats nettles and thistles, claiming he placed it there to punish it after a scare.
The article notes the United States receives about 1 407 cubic miles of rain and snow annually. It compares this to the size of Lake Ontario and estimates lifting that water to the clouds would need 500 000 000 horses at ten hours daily for a year.
A reflection on gratitude cites Napoleon Bonaparte and asks what genuine thanks mean. The piece recalls Baroness de Courtot who pleaded her case to Napoleon and moved him to tears, promising pension and restitution after recounting a girlhood memory that shaped his emotions.
The nineteenth annual report of the United States Geological Survey details the New York Vermont slate belt, its export strength and variety of slate colors, its leading role in U.S. production, and the economic links with Great Britain Belgium and other buyers.
A Detroit Free Press item recalls Eliza and David arguing over lawn care timing. The dispute escalates as neighbors on both sides hurl two bird cages and four alarm clocks at David after he attempts to cut the lawn.
A man laments a soggy season as he tries to plan ahead for a rainy day yet experiences rain every day during a family summer at a resort. The Indianapolis News notes the irony of good plans meeting persistent showers.
Stage manager J J Juxon recalls a glass eye tale with Louie Raymond and others. The gag involved placing eyes and teeth on a table to buy drinks on credit. The group later shared a night in New Orleans and other cities, swapping glass eyes and teeth as collateral.
A Detroit Free Press interview relays Grumply recalling a country farm stay that turned comic and scary. He describes mishaps with hay chutes and eggs, the farmer’s tricks, and a line about life insurance as a jest on courting death. The piece blends humor with a jab at male gullibility.
Excerpts note high prices for treatment and tailoring, with quotes from Chicago Tribune and Tit-Bits. The text contrasts expense of care with clothing alterations and humor about farm life and mealtime calls.
A collage of quips from periodicals highlights lookalike Miller twins with identical habits, a jest about a dull talk making a maiden feel rude, and a cheeky exchange on new ink versus neuralgia. It finishes with a playful ad about affordable awnings and sunlit rooms.
In a playful exchange, a Delaware mechanic who dreamed of a perpetual motion secret is teased by friends. One character jokes the dreamer will wake up, while another laments delays in mailing a letter, prompting light banter about blame and notes.
A short verse portrays a weary husband seeking daily bread and fearing the frosted cake as the true lure, contrasting happiness with hunger in a somber domestic scene. Town Topics presents this compact, period voice reflection on need and longing.
A column of light verse and quips notes the absurdities of wartime life. Jests about illness and weather mix with small domestic skits and social gossip, reflecting a nation briefly distracted from conflict.
Cholly Gayboy and Miss Sharpe clash over marriage prospects in a wry exchange. Sharpe clarifies she never insulted them, only calling them "two fast idiots" in a humorous jab.
A Washington Star anecdote recalls a father and friend discussing a boy's curious appetite. The youth reportedly sought to eat quicksilver from a mirror and even consumed stove polish, signaling developing tendencies toward risky curiosity.
A humorous exchange reveals a man living solitary and content, denying marriage and domestic troubles. The dialogue suggests a lifestyle free of wife, servants, or children, prompting the witticism that he must not be married.
A short poem playful in tone notes how the subject shifts with nicknames like Duckle Birdie and Goosie. Each tag causes a different mood from blush and sigh to warmth and gaiety as she is called a simply chicken.
Cartoon dialogue features Ally Sloper arguing a plan is best as it is longer than the alternative. The two exchange lines about length and superiority in a humorous panel.
A dialogue snippet notes a black eye on a man named Smith. Robinson says he avoids noticing such things, while Brown remarks on the injury, in a casual exchange captured in the Boston Tran script.
A series of reader testimonials from Miss E N Frederick of Troy Ohio and Mrs Mary Barshinger of Windsor Pennsylvania claim relief from long standing female kidney troubles nervous weakness and irregular menses after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Frederick writes of fatigue bearing down pains and no periods for months. Barshinger says after sixteen years of ailment she regained health and recommends the remedy.
A Washington Star verse notes the irony of idle men needing to pretend to work, racing about to look busy while avoiding genuine effort. The quip highlights social pressure to appear productive in a bustling economy.
A Chicago Post quips that a heiress’s marriage thrives because her father pays a salary to her husband instead of a fortune, a scheme that ends if the couple parts. The dialogue notes the arrangement resembles buying a husband with ongoing support rather than a traditional dowry.
A playful dialogue notes that real lovers rarely match idealized book heroes. The speaker warns that a young, handsome, brave, noble, selfless partner is unlikely, urging acceptance of fallible lovers over unattainable paragons.
A Chicago Record snippet shows Amelia and Edgar discussing a letter sent during absence. Edgar reveals he saved one day of interest on the money she asked for, hinting at financial concern and a small act of saving.
In a casual exchange, Cora notes scarce corn starch at the resort except Sundays. Merritt agrees, describes a method of chilling ice cream in a refrigerator for an hour to set the texture. The dialogue captures a domestic memory of simple dessert preparation.
A fragment from the New York World features a playful exchange where one character demands to see the other's hands to check for a dressmaker’s bill, noting home life and affection in a teasing, literary moment.
A collection of old sayings notes longevity linked to marriage as a belief voiced by a judge. Vanity is described as an early, persistent trait with a humorous exchange about selecting a doll that mirrors one’s own appearance.
A humorous quip frames a court scene as Jack Kuffy seeks a divorce from his younger wife. The exchange suggests economy as the ground, with a judge commenting on the phrase apples and crusty humor.
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