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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1900
Page
7
The Maltese cat Jim in a minister’s household moves to a new home and dislikes the decor. He clutches home letters, detests visitors, and keeps other cats in check, showing pride as the minister’s pet in this quaint domestic tale from the New York Herald.
A century ago Maine coastal frontiers faced warlike threats from Indians and British ships. A powder house stood near Wiscasset guarding stored ammunition while forts protected riverine fronts as local militia opposed invading redcoats. The relic remains in fair condition, illustrating early frontier logistics and defense.
A Chicago Daily News profile describes Chimmie Fadden a water spaniel beloved in Ravenswood for handling money mailed to the Van Horn household delivering papers parcels and letters with reliability. The dog guards gardens resists affection jealousy and stays loyal to his family while earning praise from neighbors and bakers.
A Boston Transcript piece notes that over 90 percent lack proper breathing. It urges daily breathing practice, slow lung filling, and keeping shoulders down, claiming breathing well is more vital than gym workouts for a healthy nation.
Mrs Marsh sent a carrier pigeon from near the Cliff House to Market Street five miles away. The bird carried a message requesting medicine. the husband fetched a doctor and medicine, and the pigeon returned with the vial. The baby began recovering within 20 minutes.
New York musician professor Hans Teitgen advances the theory that plants respond to music as they do to sunshine. He cites Darwin and a Boston musician noting the sensitive plant opens with harmony and closes to discord, claiming vibrations stir plant juices and nerves.
A traveler in an East Indian city observed 29 soldiers horses pawing and tossing heads when the band played a tune resembling God Save the Queen. The tune signaled home, but when the experiment ended the horses still reacted similarly, suggesting they respond to music rather than the cue.
An English patent by B Reyes of Monterey Mexico presents a combined sword pistol for officers. The design lets an officer swing the blade quickly and trigger the revolver while the hand grips the sword, enabling rapid defense when horse control hampers pistol use.
A man arrested for swearing at his mother-in-law argued she initiated the exchange. The judge pressed whether she swore at him, and the defendant claimed she did not but that she "looked at" him instead. The case was heard in Atlanta.
Mr. Sirius Barker thanks a friend for a box of cigars that did not please him. He admits the cigarettes helped him realize how habit forming they can be, leaving him better off despite not enjoying them. Washington notes the exchange.
A new safety anchorage by George C. Stanley of Portsmouth Virginia uses a cable counterweight buoy and anchor to absorb wave shocks. As a vessel shifts off its charted position the system lifts the cable, submerges the buoy, and creates an elastic loop that lets the ship recede with the wave and ride the next one with reduced stress on fittings.
Electric typewriters, priced around 200 dollars, will hit the market this autumn. Several patents exist and rivalry is expected as power machines drive the typewriter’s work by an electric motor. Operators simply indicate characters with no pressure needed, reducing fatigue while offering near unlimited speed.
Prof Wille patents a method to extract sodium from seaweed using acids claiming higher yield than burning. By products include a moss substitute for size paint, cloth finishing glue, paper binding feather, oilcloth coating, insulating pulp with silex for piping, and soapmaker material.
The passage details varied historical diets: Russian peasants relying on vegetable soup sauer kraut rye bread and oil. a Seoteh highlander living on oatmeal vegetables and buttermilk. Irish peasants dependent on potatoes and buttermilk. Corsican farmers wintering on dried fruit dates and polenta. Moors provisioning fortified cities with chestnuts and olive oil.
A brief Chicago Daily News exchange shows Stubb asking about digestive tablets and Penn replying he will take them for the liver. The line ends with a humorous misstatement about being bound low.
The fragment notes a professor who objects to coeducation because flirting wastes time, prompting humorous quips about whether the objection is genuine. This item conveys early 20th century social commentary with Puck magazine style dialogue.
A quip from Syracuse reflects a humorous exchange about marriage with a Port Clerk and a henpecked boarder. The odd definition, overconfideance, is introduced as a punchline implying wedlock as the outcome.
Two trains collided in a terrible wreck described by the Chicago Times-Herald. Survivors freed themselves and, despite gruesome injuries, worked to rescue others. A man pinned beneath debris lifted his head and shouted a spirited cheer and rally cry as rescuers carried him away.
A traveling man relays a Kentucky dog fight tale with a fatal outcome and gunfire. The piece then recalls Bishop Brooks and artist John La Farge sharing a humorous exchange about who warrants a waiting carriage.
Crimsonbeak asks his wife to review his wardrobe saying only his kodaks have buttons. The exchange appears in the Yonkers Statesman as a light humorous note.
A York Pennsylvania drug firm endorses Palmer's Lotion as a top external cure for injuries and diseases. Consumers are urged to order directly from Solon Palmer in New York for free samples if local druggists lack the product.
Mrs Fosick challenges Mrs Riggs about going to Pyrone with Mr Spriggs still in business. The talk turns to fear of leaving, citing a Detroit Free Press remark about a ship breaking its record at sea and the dread of being aboard during such an incident.
An advertisement touts Kemp's Balsam as stopping coughs at once with free sample bottles. It markets large bottles at 25 and 50 cents and urges immediate action, warning delays are dangerous.
Storekeeper Cam offers Carter's Ink and can arrange shipments to every state. Annual car loads are sent across the Union, inviting customers to inquire and buy Carter's ink through him.
December prices show flour and grain dips in New York with wheat at 763% cents and corn around 45 cents. Live cattle and lambs hold firm with steers near 4.05 to 5.35, veals 4.00 to 8.25, and hogs around 5.00. Regional quotes from Cleveland Toledo East Liberty and Cincinnati list varied cash grain, cattle, sheep, and hog values.
Frank J. Cheney swears as agent of F. J. Cheney & Co. to pay $100 for every case of catarrh cured. Notary public sworn December 6. Firm sells Hall's Catarrh Cure 75 cents and Hall's Family Pills as best, with testimonials and mail for details.
A Baltimore American excerpt reports a rough exchange about a recent auto theft. An investigating committee claimed the mob murdered the thief to recover the car, contrasting with prior intent to lynch. The dialogue satirically questions mob justice and municipal response.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad reports improved Pullman Vestibuled Sleeping Cars and day coaches from Cincinnati Louisville St Louis and Chicago to Mobile New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Thomasville Pensacola Jacksonville Tampa Palm Beach and other Florida points. Steamship connections are arranged for Cuba Porto Rico Nassau West Indies and Central American ports. Tourist and Home Seekers' excursion tickets are offered at low rates. Write C IL Stone General Passenger Agent Louisville Ky for details.
In Modern Society an angry politician threatens arrest for libel over a caricature. The artoonist insists the likeness is undeniable, arguing the portrayal resembles the man.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a universal cure from headaches to cancer by restoring bowel function. It promises easy natural movements and costs 10 cents for a metal box stamped with C. é. C., warning against imitations.
A collage of brief items mentions the Earl of Makearaise arriving in New York, questions about rich fathers and prices, patent medicines and refunds, witty exchanges about wives and pets, double lives, cough cures, and humorous dialect quips. Advertisements tout Beeman's Gum and Hale’s Honey of Horehound, with assorted punchy quotes from editors and readers.
Travel notes advertise weekly excursion sleepers from St Louis and Kansas City via the M K T Railway to San Antonio Los Angeles and San Francisco with departures on Tuesday and Saturday evenings.
Fragmentary note quotes a debate over naming a baby and signals a personal dispute about drinking, attributed to a periodical mockery in a social column. The lines mention a decision to leave naming to the recipient, with a terse exchange about drinking.
Puck prints an ad for Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement is necessary for health. It mentions gentle action on liver and ducts, eye aches, and a price of 25 and 50 cents. It also discusses bric-a-brac as a vague, affordable home item with space considerations.
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