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Newspaper
The Dalton Gazette
Location
Dalton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1902
Page
3
Ellen Osmond e surveys summer attire from embroidered lawn frocks to garden party ensembles and hats. She describes sash colors blue pink green and hydrangea tones, Paris hat poise, and evolving sleeves and boas for evening wear with lace gowns and floral accessories.
Hotels avoid funeral rites on their premises as landlords seek cheerful atmospheres. Transient guests are buried from their homes, while residents may have services in the countertrier's parlors. The Baltimore World notes few funerals occur in hotels.
A Washington teacher asks William why he was absent from school. His reply implies someone stole his coat. William’s brother James clarifies the meaning, noting someone took his coat. The report presents a puzzled tone from the New York Times transcription.
An article extols Cecil Rhodes choosing the Matoppo hills in Rhodesia for his burial, describing the landscape and his imperial ambitions. It notes a square brass plate marking the grave on the hilltop known as the View of the World, and discusses the site’s significance for Rhodesia, missionary work, and British imperial memory.
A London Lancet summary notes native Annamese medicine requires ten years of study under a master, yet results fail western standards. It cites superstition, astrology, complex pharmacopoeia, metal remedies, earth ingesting, and questionable practices, while praising some foods for vitality.
A humorous exchange from the Ohio State Journal features a new husband and wife bantering about a conflict between wealth and practical meals. The husband remarks they are too rich to eat and too heavy for life, while the wife questions the situation with a quip about answers.
A fragment from a dialogue notes a young minister with a salary of 7500 dollars in Queensland. The exchange questions if he can truly support Miss Rocksey, hinting at financial strain and social expectations.
A garbled exchange mocks self esteem and ego in a collage of quirky dialogue with names like Ethel and Ferdy. The text references Washington Star and Puck though exact source details are unclear.
The death of Billy West recalls Charlie Bensel a New York boy who went to California in 1832 to seek riches in the gold mines. Bensel learned the minstrel trade and played the banjo earning a position on a small steamer bound for the Pacific. After a shipboard fire in Callao Peru the crew saved only their belongings. Bensel reached San Francisco with nothing but his clothes and banjo and, after days of hunger, earned a meal by playing and singing negro melodies for a promise to repay later. He later formed a minstrel company popular on the Pacific coast and in China, died in China, and attributed his start to the banjo learned in New York.
A garbled discussion on gravity, pendulums, and solar timing compares gravity across oceanic regions. It mentions a harrowing measurement method and claims about crustal structure, with references to an island and forested acreage.
The piece recalls a grand May review in Washington marking the Civil War’s end, with 250000 troops from broad battlefronts parading before President Meade and generals Sherman and Grant. It notes the soldiers’ sacrifice, the West’s famed marching vigor, and the public gratitude expressed by veterans, families, and schoolchildren.
The Ohio State Journal notes census figures showing high mobility with about one in five moving from birth state, 19,460,756 foreign born residents, and New York sending 10,000 children elsewhere while receiving 3,440,000. Vermont stands out with half its population living in other states. The piece ends with a dialogue about self made men.
The New York Sun reports a father noting monthly costs drop from 240 to 150 dollars as his spendthrift son matures and stops needing full support at home.
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