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Newspaper
The Semi Weekly Item
Location
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1900
Page
2
A batch of sheriff sale notices describes foreclosures in Johnson City Marshallton Mount Carmel Sunbury and Sunbury areas. Properties include lots in blocks 21 27 and 24 with two story dwellings and outbuildings. Buyers must meet payment terms and taxes before deed. Sheriff Eugene R. Zerfing, Sunbury, Pa. January 10, 1900.
Jordan and Co offers spectacles and eyeglasses with no charge for fitting. The ad emphasizes free fitting services to attract customers.
Sheriff Enugeene Br. Zerfing offers two surface rights tracts in Marshallton Coal Township Northumberland PA each with 24 to 25 foot fronts and 208 to 218 feet depths. One tract includes a three story hotel and improvements the other a two story frame dwelling. Sale conditions require a minimum payment of 100 dollars at striking down ten percent if bids exceed one thousand dollars and forfeiture of down payment for noncompliance. January 17 1900 Sunbury PA.
Contractors began remodeling to merge two front class rooms into a main room. The rear platform will be removed and the infant department built across the space. Large windows will open to unite all sections, with a small pulpit and communion rail at the front.
The text states that three women in every 135 have red hair and mentions a tonic use for marrow spread on toast. It also gives a home remedy for removing paint using steeped tea leaves as a wash and advises using lint-free cloths for drying glass.
Readers are offered a free sample bottle of Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney blood and bladder trouble. The ad claims it helps lame back and Brights Disease and promotes purchase through Dr Kilmer Co Bingregula with sizes listed and a book about the remedy.
The text recalls Mark Twain’s early decision to publish under Mark Twain in Century Magazine, hoping for fame after a prior Eastern newspaper piece. He recounts misprints as Mike Swain, a failed banquet, and his Hornet shipwreck reporting aided by Anson Burlingame who aided his recovery and notes.
Promoters plan a large scale project to stock Maine’s abandoned farms with western cattle. Boston and New York investors are involved with a 38000 acre central site and farmers to be supplied steers for fattening. Profits split after state receives a percentage. railroads may back cheap transport.
A Missouri tale from the era recounts Governor Thomas I Cridden den’s colored hostler Ben predicting the death of the governor’s favorite horse Pluto. Ben explains in rustic cadence that Pluto “ain’t a-goin’ to live berry long” because he is already dead.
A Newport woman ordered $50 worth of violet from a leading importer, buying a dozen bottles at five dollars per ounce. Importers report shipment patterns with steamers bringing twenty boxes of extract and twenty boxes of essence to the city.
A French engineer advocates alcohol as a motor fuel, reporting most cars run on petroleum but engines are being adapted to burn alcohol. He claims no explosion risk and lower costs than petroleum.
Imperial decree requires German army officers to wear reddish brown dog skin gloves during the ma RaUVres. This directive specifies uniform accessories for officers amid ongoing fashion and discipline measures.
A tale from Crimson Gulch recounts a mock city council led by a tenderfoot organizer with Nevada Bill under suspicion of blue-chip poker wealth. Three-Finger Sam denounces the intruder, warning him of armed townsfolk and a rapid exit the next morning.
The piece condemns docking as an outdated cruel practice once used on English roadsters and draft horses. It notes its revival in modern times harms mares and grazing horses by denying fly defense and causing pain. It urges influential leaders and agricultural societies to discourage it and withhold prizes from exhibits showing the mutilation.
A three receiver fish wheel is fixed near the riverbank at a rapid section of the Columbian River. Water current drives the wheel, dipping each receiver under water to scoop up salmon as they jump in the rapids.
The Suez Canal cost 100,000,000 dollars, the Manchester ship canal 90,000,000, the North Sea canal 37,500,000, and the North Holland and Corinth canals 15,000,000 each. The Panama Canal, partly completed, has swallowed over 250,000,000 dollars.
The Bell Island Newfoundland iron mine, principal property of the company, is described as one of the most unique in the world. It is an open ore deposit 300 feet wide and three miles long, requiring blasting with dynamite and shoveling into cars for extraction.
The Siamese hold a strong superstition against even numbers. They require odd counts for rooms in a house, windows or doors in a room, and rungs on a ladder.
Paris will host bull fights to thrill residents with events staged at Engien, about a 12 minute train ride from the city. The arena will be outside Paris proper, extending the region’s spectacle offerings.
The latest artificial paving blocks in Germany are produced by combining coal tar sulfur and chlorate of lime.
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