27 Sep 1900
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Newspaper
The Gastonia Gazette
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1900
Page
1
Mrs Arp advocates a dedicated orphan day to aid the Decatur orphanage, urging 20th of the month as a time for charity. She recalls religious texts, cites costs of day to support orphans, and notes personal family efforts and humor while urging broader community giving to help those without parents.
A Paris dispatch in The Daily News reports M. Willot a leading telegraph scientist advocates a wireless earth based signal method. He suggests signals travel through earth layers rather than air, with shafts bored to measure electric levels and link major cities. The plan envisions divisions of towns using distinct levels and an apparatus to adapt to each case.
Edson Brace argues in the St Louis Republic that beyond water level and surge, the perigee moon tides amplified Galveston’s flood, noting nine to ten foot tides in Bay of Fundy and predicting 12 foot rises could have spared lives. He urges meteorological officials to publish actionable analyses.
Southern Railway officials report a legal adviser ruling on the shirt waist man and first class seating. The memo says conductors should exercise discretion if a coat is off but may suppress any offensive posture promptly. otherwise no rule should bar his presence in ladies cars.
A writer recalls Horace Fletcher's metaphor of gossip as a sewer and tells of a friend who gathered and spread mean reports. The tale ends with the friend reforming after a sincere apology and explanation about avoiding leaky sewer habits.
Volcanic eruptions are grand, but skin eruptions ruin life. Bucklen's Arnica Salve cures ulcers boils felons corns warts cuts burns and more. Best pile cure on earth. Dries out pains and aches. Only 25 cents a box. Sold by J E Curry and Company, Druggists.
George MacAdam notes in St Nicholas September a story of early pantaloons born from a cavalry skirt split at the waist. The tale credits Assyrian tailors under King Ashurizipal (883-858 B C) with inventing pantaloons to fit horsemen, a century or more of trial leading to a split-skirt solution and the first trousers.
The excerpt raises two questions about Mr. Hanna and the trusts, asking how many combinations he defends against and how the Dinley tariff creates a monopoly in the domestic market, plus the excess of the combination's annual dividend over the former corporations' average.
Mr R P Oliva of Barcelona spends winters in Aiken and credits Electric Bitters with curing back head pains and numerous ailments. The ad claims the remedy purifies blood strengthens nerves and organs, boosts vitality and is guaranteed. A 50 cent bottle sold by J E Curry & Co.
Manila dispatch reports the Philippine commission approving road and bridge funding of 2 000 000 Mexican dollars, plus 5 000 for a Dagupan to Benguet railroad survey and 35 400 for educational costs. McArthur attended. engineers to start work immediately. Signal Corps repairing Luzon telegraph lines. rebels in Samar propose trading two American prisoners for two Filipinos.
Elder Weekins Sundayed with us yesterday and reports his carbuncle subsiding and neck straightening. Col Blotts had his neck broken in an accident at 11 oclock Tuesday. Heads of school children show our new barber has missed his calling. We would have made a splendid carpenter. No funeral here since Abe Jenkins held one for his mother in law. The new preacher collects his salary with grace and a shotgun.
Ada E Hart of Groton shares a testimonial after a severe lung illness nearly ended her life. Four doctors gave up, she credits recovery to Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. She bought eight bottles, fully cured, and now proclaims thanks to God and medicine. Trial bottles offered free at J K Curry Co Drug Store with guarantee or refund.
Uncle Allen of Chicago Tribune advised against overanalyzing favors and gifts. He quipped that one should not dissect kindness too minutely, using a humorous metaphor about examining a gift cheese under a microscope.
The piece argues the religious weekly depends on national religiosity and asserts a revived demand in a more religious twentieth century. It notes the pulpit needs a companion paper, compares a church without a paper to a sun-damaged bucket, and urges churches to embrace weekly organs to counter misinformation about missions. It highlights political readers buying papers and calls for robust religious weeklies to support missions and curb criticism.
The Atlanta Journal describes a Philadelphia case where a freight brakeman on the Delaware and Lackawanna railroad labored 100 hours without sleep after flagging a train and was killed when he fell asleep on the track. The piece condemns such overwork as criminal and calls for accountability for those responsible.
The article details an unprecedented evangelical revival movement across England and the United States to begin with the new century. It describes eight days of preparation, multiple London and provincial centres, and evangelists aided by lay members. Special services for milkmen drivers and other groups are planned, with events at various hours to suit attendees. A parallel call urges a year of prayer and Bible study to foster a coordinated religious renewal for 1900.
In 1878 General Chaffee winters in Arizona prompts a comic episode with Muldoon, his Irish attendant who deserts after a failed wood quest. Years later Muldoon returns, delivering mesquite wood in a dramatic porch entrance, earning a light sentence. The tale ends with Muldoon living in Arizona and recalling Civil War era scouting with Chaffee.
The Baltimore Sun reports on railroad rail lengths shifting from 30 and 60 foot tests to 45 foot standards. Mentions expansion in heat, fewer joints, and wear differences between 100 and lighter rails, with experts predicting 45 foot rails as the coming standard.
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