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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1900
Page
4
Excerpts lament the Boer War's toll and call for peace in a plea to end conflict. The text juxtaposes a British and Boer suffering with a call for unity and religious calm. It includes lines by George Crouch in the New York Sun and lyrics urging love as a remedy to hatred.
A poem reflects on delaying hopeful plans and the wasted time that leads to regret in old age. The speaker urges action rather than deferment as unfulfilled possibilities slip away while awaiting a future gale or opportunity.
A schoolboy narrator praises his mother for constant love across moods and actions. He notes she loves him even when he is angry or disobedient and even loves him when she punishes him. The poem highlights a mother’s unconditional care and discipline.
William A. Clark of Montana, reputed owner of over two hundred million, aims to spend ten million on a Fifth Avenue mansion. He would rival Van derbilt and Astor with gold balustrades, marble friezes, costly wall paintings, and treasures from Europe. The article catalogs purchases in Paris and New York, including a $30,000 stained glass window and a $25,000 portrait, and notes Clark’s mining empire and wealth.
A Washington scientist named Dr. William Calver asserts he has solved direct conversion of the sun’s rays into heat for commercial use and storage. He describes a system of 1,600 mirrors concentrating solar heat to a central reservoir, capable of melting rock, welding metals, and burning frozen wood, even on cloudy days.
The article notes two feet eight inches by eight feet for Boer horses and four-horse mule pens of two feet six inches, with sailors carving a warning on a gun from HMS Terrible. It mentions shoeing-smiths and wheelwrights needed by the Royal Artillery and a £10 bounty to recruit for color service or color service with reserve. It reports vast ammunition dispatches to the war and early Royal ballooning with cameras for panoramic country views.
A Kansas City woman with gray hair rode a crowded New York trolley and stood holding the strap while men hid behind newspapers. A nearby Black man rose to offer his seat, she refused, declaring she would not take the seat of the only gentleman, prompting six men to stand as the papers dropped.
Plans outline tunnel under the Hooghly river at Calcutta with the bed 36 feet deep and tunnel 12 feet beneath the bed. The tunnel length is 6 875 feet.
Agnes Olcott reflects on domestic life in New York comparing it with Japanese housekeeping. She argues luxury and clutter create labor, praising Japanese restraint and a Quaker Brooklyn home that harmonizes style with simplicity. She urges women to seek beauty in daily life and reduce possessions.
A compact apparatus for making medicinal powders into papers is described with a hopper and sliding bar mechanism. The Hai Tien, a 4,400 ton cruiser, is slated to reach 23.6 knots, potentially crossing the Atlantic in about four and a half days. Also noted are American-made mining and transport technologies and a survey of Austrian-Hungarian refugees in the U.S. The piece closes with a Paris gym instructor’s record walking feats including 35,000 miles and long domestic routes.
The speaker notes that generosity can be earned with small sums, but character is intrinsic. After a long day, they assert that we reach our true character not by reputation but by inner qualities.
Norris Sprigg editor of Mecca pursues two prairie wolves through Denver streets and park to home. He borrows a horse, shoots one wolf with a shotgun and revolver, then finishes the other with a pistol. He displays the fresh wolf pelt and suggests a city wolf round-up may follow.
In a Paris State Department archive letter dated May 10 1790 Louis Otto then French Charge dAffaires in Philadelphia recounts Benjamin Franklin's last words. Otto describes a saying reflecting Franklin's self fashioned religion that a man is not truly born until after death, challenging Partons account of easier breathing words.
A vintage note claims dried orange peel placed on hot iron or a shovel kills all bad odors and leaves a pleasant fragrance, touting the effectiveness of this simple fumigant.
A collection of maxims and observations closes with military notes on a native despatch runner captured by Boers but delivering the message hidden in a nostril. Also discussed are substituting a Martini Metford carbine for a sword for officers and Havana disinfecting with electrozone at 60 cents per thousand gallons.
A very young man boards a Woodward avenue car at Grafton with a crowd watching. He pays fares with a pile of coins, is ridiculed for his Christmas socks and plaid hose, and abandons the car at Edmund Place amid laughter from fellow passengers.
A Seattle Times reader relays a tale of a globe trotter who bluffed his way into buying a Nice hotel with a mocked million plus credit. An American buyer then forced the landlord to concede, leaving the German tenant and the hotel staff astonished by the two week windfall.
A church clock in Harborne near Birmingham halted as bees swarmed inside the works and filled the mechanism with honey. Workers took two days to remove the honey and restart the clock. A separate Yorkshire clock also stopped when a bird began roosting on a hand.
A collection of glossy, satirical jibes about women and marriage, poking fun at gender roles. The humor riffs on ballots for women, dual lives, cold baths, and fashionable follies, contrasting masculine and feminine clichés with playful quips.
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