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Newspaper
Traverse Bay Eagle
Location
Traverse City, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1898
Page
2
The Traverse City Driving Club schedules two day events on June 23 and 24 featuring horse trotting and pacing and running races plus bicycle races on Maccabee Day. Bert McCoy says trotters are expected from East Jordan and Manistee. Purse money totals about 500 dollars with bicyclists offered over 50 more.
The article describes wedding gowns dominated by satin with trims of lace or chiffon, high necks, long sleeves with lace, various sleeve fullness methods, and trains from short to four yards. It notes veils of tulle or lace, orange blossoms, and Florida water for scent, with prices from 12 to 50 dollars. Commencement gowns favor organdie with Valenciennes lace, chiffon, sashes, white gloves, and white shoes, plus summer fabrics like mohair and serge for travelers.
Citizens of Williamsburg and nearby areas construct a four mile bicycle path from Williamsburg to Bates. The twenty foot from the road and twenty inch wide raised route is clayed and graded to aid water runoff. Organizers hope to extend the path to Acme, praising local cyclists and urging other riders to travel safely.
A convention of Democratic electors in Grand Traverse County will meet at Grange Hall Traverse City Michigan on Wednesday June 15 at 2 PM. The purpose is to elect nine delegates to the State convention in Grand Rapids June 22 and to select delegates to congressional senatorial and representative conventions yet to be called. Townships and Traverse City wards receive specified delegate counts with Peninsula East Bay Acme Whitewater Union Grant Fife Lake Paradise Mayfield Garfield Green Lake Long Lake Blair. Dated June 8 1898 W P Crorsrt r Chairman
Larry Briggs was tried before Justice Sterling at Wexford Tuesday on a charge of assault and battery against Walt Ferguson and was acquitted. Prosecuting Attorney Fred Lamb of Cadillac led the prosecution with F. H. Pratt defending Briggs.
In a courtroom riff from the Chicago Post a prosecuting attorney questions Mr Parks about the defendant. The witness quips the man is a professor of religion who follows the crowd to drink and often leans against a lamppost for support. The exchange ends with Parks yielding his tale.
The Knoxville Tribune quotes old commanders arguing that boys from 16 to 21 make up the best fighting material. It notes captains under 20, brigadiers at 21, Grant under 40 at his start, Stonewall Jackson at 38 in fame and 39 at death, Sheridan active at 80, Lee at 29 as major general, and Napoleon at 33 in Egypt, Alps crossing, and Marengo. The era is framed as a war shaped by young men.
A young Arnold Bocklin married a poor Roman girl and lived on beans. He refused to alter a landscape for a wealthy German merchant, rejecting nearly $1,000 to compromise his ideals. The tale links his integrity to the idea that wealth without virtue is hollow. Burdock Blood Bitters claim to purify blood and energize the body.
A New York Sun account notes elephants fear a small woodland mouse and even view it as a deadly threat. In India and similar regions, tiny chacanas feed on a sour berry, live under berry bushes, and when elephants feed they trample villages while the mice climb trunks, lodge claws in flesh, and cause inflammation and death.
In Cornhill Magazine reflections on actors living apart from nature, the railway as stage, and the lure of acting from Elizabethan times to Dulwich School founders. It notes actors adopting other names especially female ones, questioning the value of a chosen stage name. The piece cites Shakespeare, Alleyne, and a model naming herself Alice Burne-Jones as examples.
The Petit Journal of Paris contrasts the English traveler as calm, punctual, and minimal in baggage with the French traveler who is restless, anxious, and cluttered with many useless items. The Englishman enjoys travel while the Frenchman finds it tedious and fatiguing.
The paper argues the pope cannot appear publicly in Rome without triggering mixed reactions from faithful and hostile crowds. It notes government military honors would not prevent ongoing demonstrations and potential factional clashes, reflecting the pope as a dispossessed sovereign.
An advertisement touts Dr. Fowlers Extract of Wild Strawberry as a cure for bowel complaints and a remedy for a troublesome second summer. The copy emphasizes its protective household value and natural origins.
A vintage ad promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to cool swollen hot feet and ease pain from tight shoes. It claims relief from swelling sweating blisters callous spots corns and bunions with a rest giving comfort. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25¢ trial package free. Address Allen S. Olmsted LeRoy NY.
Miss Ida Tigner Hodnett describes how children in Japan play battledoor and shuttlecock and kite flying at the start of the year. The game is common in streets and homes with family participation and light spanks for misses.
A Battle Creek veterinary figure recalls using Doan's Kidney Pills after years of kidney trouble and backache. He notes relief after trying multiple remedies and credits the pills for his cure. Foster Milburn Co. distributes Doan's Kidney Pills marketed at 50 cents.
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