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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1900
Page
7
A detailed ad showing a new double house design priced at 2800 dollars including plumbing heating and post foundation. It lists seven rooms per unit with specified dimensions large closets ventilated rooms beamed ceilings circular parlor end and many sash windows plus a full bill of materials and labor for foundation framing and carpentry.
A Chicago Record note lists wonderful 19th century inventions including the telephone photograph buttons golf caps and ice cream soda. A New York Journal cartoon panel shows a father and doctor bantering about a crying baby as a form of exercise.
A Chicago Record analysis argues that judging a man by company or social ban is flawed as individuals may be judged harshly for associations. The piece notes people like Agwarden mix with various inmates and face misperceptions from peers and society.
The Chicago Record quotes a quip asking the public to name the most leveling and civilizing influence of the present age and answers with humor that the bathtub stands as that influence. The remark highlights a light, era-typical aside reflecting daily life and social progress.
The United States Department of Agriculture plans to distribute roots of a Mariner horseradish variety from northern Bohemia. Developed by long selection, it features sharp flavor, uniform shape, and good keeping qualities. Cultivation is a notable industry in Kattenburg Bohemia with large exports. Circular No. 20 explains abroad methods, though hand labor may limit adoption in the United States. Cuttings 12 inches long.
The article describes growing horseradish with oblique plantings 18 inches apart along bed edges, careful soil preparation, and raised roots by mid June. It covers root handling, drying, charcoal dusting, and using a cement pavement to control small roots, noting uniform marketable root size and foreign cooks’ extensive use.
The article explains how healthy trees show lush tops while weak or old trees die back and sprout from the trunk. Renovation helps mostly younger trees through improved growth, healthier foliage, and time. Pruning should be selective and done late spring, with fertilizer near roots. indiscriminate pruning harms trees. Improvements appear gradually, with yearly buds and new growth from old wood. KNJ Shepherd, in Farmers' Voice.
Wide tires a necessity this article asserts. It claims lovers of low tire cars have long shouted the wheelmen’s truth, and insists wide tires are essential for preserving the highways.
In Judge Lawlor's court a murder trial featured Officer Riley testifying to the moment of death. Counsel Ferral challenged his timing with a two minute hold, but Riley correctly timed the moment, aided by a large redwood clock. Prosecutor Solomon admired the display as Riley smiled.
A commercial traveler, anxious wife, and a tale of smell and superstition unfold as he returns from an east trip. His wife insisted he carry safetida to ward off smallpox, he claimed he smelled it the whole time, and she quietly replied she sewed a bit on him before he left. A grim punchline follows about a doomed man asking to spare his parents.
A Yonkers Statesman snippet reports a resident joining a local “Don’t Worry” club and planning to pay dues soon. The brief notes uncertainty and asks about Kuivin, reflecting the fragmentary column style of busy town chatter.
A collage of witty excerpts, testimonials, and brief notices from various newspapers. Includes medicinal claims for Purging remedies, social quips about whist and bachelors, joke lines about cars and oysters, and light remarks on widows and marriages attributed to sources like Indianapolis Journal and Syracuse Herald.
An amateur philanthropist leads a Sunday school class of Chinese immigrants on the East Side, the pupil expressing gratitude for learning English and promising to work as an interpreter. Grain-O is marketed as a coffee substitute, praised for digestion and nerve strength, non stimulant, affordable at 15 and 25 cents, widely sold by grocers.
A fragment of an amusing empire of late 19th century papers notes Mrs Henpeck anxious over her husband who talks in his sleep. The item cites a Philadelphia Press quip about sleeptalking and its effect on domestic life, reflecting the era's humor. It also includes vintage ads for Allen's Foot-Ease and Dr H H Green's Dropsy treatment, and a sharp Atchison Globe satirical jab on judging spouses.
An advertisement claims Mrs. Pinkham's medicine relieves painful periods and improves female health. It stresses that most women's issues stem from disorder of the female organism and urges sufferers to obtain the medicine and Mrs. Pinkham's free advice from Lynn, Massachusetts.
A fragment shows Mrs Flyabout and Mr Flyabout in a social exchange marked by humor and evasive talk. The dialogue hints at a courtroom setting as a judge’s presence looms, suggesting a light legal or social satire moment.
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