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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1902
Page
4
Bald Colonel A Novi Blakeman recounts a balloon trip near London that went awry. After anchors tangled in trees and near spills, he leaped from the basket and wandered to an inn before reaching London and learning his landing was mistaken for an escape to an insane asylum.
The Kansas City Star quotes a young wife lamenting her husband’s refusal to hire another maid to care for their dog. He retorts that friends warned him he was crazy to marry her, a claim he only understands after marriage.
A peculiar rail-road anecdote discusses measuring train speed by watching mile posts telegraph poles and wheel clicks. It notes wide variations in pole spacing and mile calculations, cautioning that accuracy degrades when joints or uneven track cause miscounts.
A frustrated patron challenges a librarian with three literary questions. The librarian admits inability to answer any, prompting the patron to remark that exams for librarians are pointless. The scene ends with a sharp critique of the staff’s knowledge.
A New York Sun reader contends toothpick chewing is becoming widespread in eateries. Patrons hurry in for a single toothpick but return with many, often collecting a full hand full and continuing on subsequent visits. The habit, tied to free toothpicks, is seen as a growing nuisance and potential health concern.
A terse note in the Philadelphia Record cites editor rejection of a poem titled Licht. Beautiful Light. The Atchiaon Globe is urged to share gift flowers with friends before death. The Chicago News quotes a bar side bargain tip.
A Confederate veteran recalls a grisly morning after the second Battle of Manassas. While scavenging for supplies, he encounters a wounded boy of about sixteen, requests water, and offers his purple fez as a memory of survival. The fez exchange and the boy's fate end amid war’s wreckage and loss.
An 19th or early 20th century note extols apples as brain helpful and sleep inducing. It claims apples supply phosphoric acid easily digested and aid liver function mouth disinfection and throat disease prevention.
A March 1902 temperance program at the Canaan Presbyterian Church features Rev T B Gay, Rosa Bixler, Zora Fetzer, Merlig Herman, Marie Russell, and others with recitations, solos, quartets, and orations. An included health ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a Toledo address and local Wooster listings.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company announces extremely low rail rates for one way travel from Pointa in California to North West and back daily during March and April. The deal covers point to point routes with broad Northwest daily service.
Excursion tickets sold Sundays between all local stations near the Ohio river on the Baltimore and Ohio at one fare for the round trip, good for sale day only. From Wooster tickets on Saturday nights good for return Monday morning at one fare for round trip.
Low rate excursion tickets to the West and South sold via Pennsylvania Lines with dates March 4 and 18 April 15 May 6 and 20. Through time fares listed. inquire at Pennsylvania Lines passenger and ticket agents for details and special second class colonial fares during March and April 2002.
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