28 Jun 1873
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Newspaper
Aiken Tribune
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1873
Page
1
The CHE AIKEN TRIBUNE announces weekly publication with pricing for 12 month copies, 6 month copies, 8 month copies, and single copies available. Subscriptions listed include fine copy options and single-copy availability.
A fragmented poem invites readers to a last night in June revel with moonlit imagery. It urges dancers to discard labor and vanity, don white robes, braid hair, and dress as celestial figures. The verse portrays longing, beauty, and hope amid hardship with ornate, period-tinged language.
A curious note argues the wedding ring symbolizes marriage through anatomy. It describes nerves supplying finger sides and links the ring finger to union, citing injuries that reveal nerve paths from the ulnar and radial nerves, and how the little finger is affected by elbow strikes.
The article discusses widespread anxiety over marriage, divorce, and changing roles, noting urban mobility, economic shifts, and female emancipation as key factors. It argues for rethinking marriage’s aims, duties, and education while emphasizing affection, welfare, and child needs as guiding principles.
A venerable Detroit woman, twice widowed and living quietly at home, is described as once betrothed to Jefferson Davis. The piece notes her memory and imagination as dominant, her life marked by curiosity about the past, and a fascination with the Confederate president, whose failed engagement colors her long, solitary years.
A compact eighteenth century note lists common measures and equivalents. It explains acre size by sides, distance units like mile and fathom, and common volumes and weights for barrels and bushels. The piece reflects practical conversion rules for land, distance, and commodity measures.
A column discusses the social cost of tardiness across trades and stresses punctuality as essential to trust and efficiency. It surveys fashion trends including the round Josephine waist, high necklines, basques, grenadine fabrics, and summer dresses with detailed descriptions of silhouettes, materials, and accessorizing.
Fragmentary 19th century lament explores deaths marked as yesterday in varying lives from infants to elders. The prose mulls mortality, memory, and the daily harvest of the living, weaving sentimental reflections on those who died yesterday and the sorrow they leave behind.
Fragmentary OCR notes indicate a policy that advertisements for Trousion require immediate cash payment. The readable text mentions cash as a condition, implying a payment rule for listings or notices. No further concrete names, dates, or places are legible to confirm scope or enforcement.
Sir Bartle Frere reports Africa exports enslaved persons totaling 30000 annually. Longfellow and Bryant elected to the Russian Academy of Science. Canby’s brother dies in Missouri Lunatic Asylum after General’s fate. Stephens buys Atlanta Sun, resumes ownership. A dead man’s beard found eighteen inches long. A nun tied to West Point appointment. Parson Brownlow’s man. Paris fashion centers on center room seating setups. Cyndall and potato theory. global rainfall debates. Draper’s forest and rainfall study. land clearing questioned. Massachusetts lauds adjournment of its Long Parliament. Immigrant cash estimates boost U.S. wealth by 17000000. Civil Service Board proposes four districts with chief examiners. Chase praised as a learned but linguistically limited judge. French, Italian, Spanish, German literacy noted in legal scholarship.
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