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Newspaper
The Monroe Journal
Location
Monroe, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1913
Page
3
Pierre vies with the turpentine man for Cecelia as a Fourth of July cat boat race unfolds. The Kitten and Lis des Eaux clash in a fierce regatta, a squall sinks the Kitten, and Cecelia aids the rescue while Pierre contemplates love beyond rivalry.
Agnes Repplier notes in Century Magazine that the era celebrates spinster freedom as women run farms and orchards with acclaim. She questions past male guardianship, contrasts colonial single women cultivating tobacco with today’s success, and argues the new praise may outshine earlier patriarchal praise through agricultural achievement.
In Hartford, Dr. Joseph H. Twichell recalls Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain friendship. Stowe freely harvested flowers from Twain’s conservatory, vexing the gardener. Twain kept doors open but gardener begged restraint. Twain quipped about heaven.
Promotes prompt relief from weak kidneys and indigestion says Mrs. Dowling of San Francisco. The ad touts Electric Bitters as a wonderful remedy praised by women with claims of curing the wife when all else failed. Also advertised as beneficial for the liver and biliousness at English Drug.
A humorous tale recalls a Dutchman crossing a bridge in a goat drawn cart and then returning with the goat as driver, insisting the toll should be paid by the driver. The piece then notes Scots law with a famously brief act banning candles in hay exchanges without a lantern, praising brevity in legislation.
To remove a screw with one side of the head broken off, place the screwdriver against one side of the head and with a small block press firmly against the screwdriver turning both the screwdriver and the screw. The screw will come out almost as easily as if the head was intact.
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