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Newspaper
The Semi Weekly Item
Location
Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1900
Page
2
A humorous reminiscence contrasts a lively rural band with Sousa’s, noting endurance and misadventure. A bass drum rolls downhill during a hotel performance, while a trombone mishap at a village funeral gate sparks a horse-driven chase, ending with the band returning triumphantly.
Nobert May compares seventeenth and nineteenth century delicacies noting shared tastes such as anchovies asparagus parmesan and almond paste while the seventeenth century hosts oysters to begin dinner. May from Paris offers methods for dressing tortoise frogs and snails.
In the Chicago Evening News brief a long haired passenger sighs about the unknown future and a man with auburn whiskers reflects that thirty years ago he carved initials in a country school desk and never achieved fame.
Reports from Volksrust describe three Chinamen arriving during the alien expulsion era. Authorities repeatedly returned them across the border by rail and road, disguising them among Kaffirs as the policy intensified. Later, three more Chinamen were found in Jepper town engaging in business before the law was relaxed.
The Charleston News Courier recounts a quirky incident on the Jerk Water special route between Broad Street and the Battery. A five cent fare bought a cat in a bag and a transfer to the Belt Line, with instructions to drop the cat downtown, revealing streetcar tensions and anxious riders.
Three men in a Pullman compartment discuss a money making scheme promising 100 percent gains in three months. One skeptic is won over and is told to “look it over.” The apparent insider tips a mark to join, while the third man coolly suggests using a fellow passenger as a sucker.
The Detroit Free Press notes in detail how Chinese turtle fights are conducted. Young men train turtles by feeding raw meat and drugs, filing jaws, and tormenting them daily until temper becomes ferocious. In arenas, two trained turtles fight in a ring with jaws extended, often ending with one surviving after hours of combat.
An account notes the distance to the pole as 460 miles from the farthest polar point, describing extended sledding conditions and challenging travel during early exploration.
A Washington Star interview outlines crawfish life and use as bait. It notes slow maturity taking 12 to 15 years, male and female colony habits, nocturnal feeding, and eel predation. Soft and hard shells, shedding in June and July, and best rivers like the Miami in Ohio are described for bait and cooking.
Archaeologists in Rome, with Cardinal Rampolla’s permission, uncover a Roman house beneath the Church of Saint Cecilia. Excavations reveal a grand hall and a bathroom, the latter linked to the tradition that Saint Cecilia died there by being scalded, suggesting the martyrdom room may be the original bath adjoining the church transept.
Deacon Darklegh warns congregants that mocking the pastor’s appearance of his feet violates Solomon’s guidance. He emphasizes restraint and obedience among younger members of the congregation.
A Bowery push cart debuts the ice cream sandwich selling for a penny. Thin milk biscuits sandwich ice cream in a tin mold, then released in seconds, making the entrepreneur the envy of Bowery plushcart restaurateurs.
The article describes elite Chinese city clubs that resemble Western aristocratic clubs with social and political roles. A distinctive feature is a dedicated sanctuary for religious rites where members pray to a club god, sometimes including war deities in Boxer centers.
Giovanni Mulotti, newly arrived from Italy, set up with a horse and wagon on the North Side. Lacking English, his chant was Just the same to the peddler's cries cabbages onions potatoes bananas apples and oranges. He sold several goods despite the language gap.
A Philadelphia observer describes a royal wedding procession in Japan. He notes Americans, including a five foot tall man, tower over locals and jokes about holding up small Japanese people between their knees to show civility.
The text argues that rice production implies multiple harvests per year and thus denser populations. It claims rice producing countries should support at least twice the population of corn producing countries, due to more abundant yields and food.
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