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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1902
Page
3
A fashion trend replaces graceful curves with a straight angular silhouette. Designers push a longer corset with rigid bones and straps to flatten hips and compress flesh, lifting the bust to create a high, perpendicular profile. The shift favors slimmer, taller silhouettes over fuller figures.
The piece argues that modern Christians cannot be dead to the world and must organize for righteous government. It urges citizens to join in public life, fight alcohol and immorality, oppose gambling and corruption, pursue peace, and balance hymns with tax duties, citing Pliny’s reference to early Christians.
A collage of brief humor and wry observations from newspapers. It includes lines about living in a dead town, two dollar days of work, marital intrigues with heiresses, sharp retorts, and a joke about distance to the sun, with varied authors and outlets.
A burglar and his partner burglarized a home while residents slept. The assailant, warned by a menacing intruder, fled in fear and was later sentenced to one of upstate prisons. The incident, described by the New York Tribune, ended with the burglar fearing lethal consequences.
A burglar breaks into a room where a ventriloquist sleeps. A guarding dog growl drives him to flee, but a patrolman corners him. The thief is later jailed after the ventriloquist reveals the dogged alarm in the home.
Golden Penny notes a striking Abyssinian community where women own the house and possessions, discipline husbands, and can banish a spouse for any misdeed. Husbands are largely idle, must stay in tent unless traveling, and a wife may seek separation with one third of joint assets.
A Chicago News item presents a humorously candid exchange about carpet cleaning. Mrs Homer-How asks how to keep carpets clean and jokes about using a professional beater, while Mrs Neighbors explains she provokes her husband to start the cleaning.
The New York Sun notes 360 pickpockets are known to Japanese police in Tokyo. About 200 thieves target travelers on trains, reflecting a persistent problem in urban transit.
The article surveys winter coat fashion with Jap anese robe influenced lines. It highlights black box cloth cloaks with geometric trimmings, satin linings, and Tam o Shanter hats. sacque shaped coats in pale beaver tones, feather hats, putty colored box cloth garments with silk passementerie, and serviceable rough tweed coats with reversible linings.
A London paper notes Irish political offenders exiled to Australia left literary memorials. It cites Gen Holt of 1798 rebellion fame, leaders of 1648 and Fenian prisoners like John Boyle O Reilly who wrote Moondyne and poetry, and others who chronicled exile and life in penal settlements.
In a colorful Philadelphia Press report a lion criticizes obsequious staff, while the tiger cashier muses that ostrich tips are valuable after remarking on the pair of ostriches. The exchange depicts playful jungle satire within a comic framing.
John Gregg a 14 year old from Principio Maryland saved the Colonial express from a washout by flagging it with his coat and guiding passengers to safety. Pennsylvania Railroad offers him a college education or any trade he chooses with time to decide and a service berth as a firefighter if he prefers.
A New York man settled $500,000 of old debts creditors doubted he would repay, a rare case illustrating that creditors often go unpaid in New York and beyond, the Chicago Inter Ocean reports.
A San Francisco boy will recover from an accident with part of his brains gone. Science shows brains are not essential to living, according to the Baltimore American.
Low one way and round trip rates to Kan dag Indian Territory Oklahoma and Texas on the 1st and 3d Tuesdays of each month. Write for particulars and literature. James Barker Genl Pass Agent M IX and T Ry 501 Wainwright Bldg St Louis.
A mosaic of old ads and quips includes lines about passing butter at table, Dr August Koenig Hamburg Drops claimed to cure liver disorders, Piso s Cure for Consumption praised, and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets offered. Also notes about Putnam Fadeless Dyes and a Ram s Horn quote.
New York markets show flour Minnesota patents at 4.00 to 4.20. wheat No 2 red at 7 1 2 to 7 3 4. corn No 2 at 64. oats No 2 white at 38 1 4. hay high grade 19 to 20. cattle steers 4.25 to 4.80. veals 5.00 to 9.50. sheep 2.75 to 4.25. lambs 5.00 to 6.25. Cleveland lists flour 4.00 to 4.25. wheat No 2 red 7 1 2 to 7 3 4. corn No 2 yellow 4. oats No 3 white 35. butter 31. cheese 14. eggs 27. potatoes 55 to 65. cattle steers 5.00 to 5.50. calves 7.00 to 7.50. sheep 3.75 to 4.00. hogs 6.20. Toledo cash wheat 78 46. corn 48. oats 33. cloverseed 6.05. Liberty Dec cattle 5.75 to 5.00. sheep 3.80 to 4.00. lambs 5.40 to 5.05. hogs 6.20 to 6.60. Buffalo reports prime steer 5.75 to 6.35. shipping steers 4.85 to 5.50. hogs 6.40 to 6.55. sheep 5.75 to 5.90. lambs 3.75 to 4.00.
A satirical note in Puck mocks rumors of a German doctor's discovery of a sure cure for consumption. The cartoonish dialogue criticizes long-running patent cures sold in village drug stores for two decades.
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