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10 May 1873
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Newspaper
Aiken Tribune
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1873
Page
1
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The text outlines Japan's sweeping modernization after Perry's fleet opened ports, detailing shifts from feudal daimo rule to centralized power under the Mikado. It covers reforms in taxation, education, currency, industry, women's status, religion, law, and daily life, aiming for a westernized, unified state with expanded trade and culture.
A lyrical meditation on love and trance contrasts with a sweeping historical sketch of Japan. The excerpt shifts from imagery of passion to analysis of Japan’s modernization, tracing early isolation, Jesuit influence, Dutch trade, Perry’s opening, and evolving treaties under a constitutional framework.
A dated glimpse describes Chinese lanterns used in day and night, bearing owners names or official titles in red or black. Wealthier families display large globular lanterns, while common folk use cylindrical shapes. Lanterns mark street identity, guide onlookers, and feature in processions and funerals as symbols of status and ritual.
A humorous, antiquated critique of women’s chronic lateness and obsession with dress. The writer blames female vanity for delays, noting men wait an hour or more while women finish toilette. The piece depicts delays at theaters and concerts, with a male narrator vexed by late arrivals.
Transient advertisements require cash in advance. Liberal reductions offered for contract arrangements. Editor and Proprietor.
A garbled digest of late 1800s items notes Turkey ordering 400 rifles from the U S and Victor Hugo’s forthcoming poem Satan, Edmonia Lewis marrying in Rome, a gold 400 pound brick for Vienna, Illinois moves to inject compulsory schooling, Texas considers juror disqualification for illiteracy, tax on liquor and tobacco nears $90 million, Napoleon’s estate net proceeds capped around £60,000, Dorgas to England lecturing on race, a 13 year old in Americus ships 2,500 pounds of cotton, a Spain birth of a conjoined twin, Kentucky vetoes a presidential invite, Bonnet’s advertising wealth rising, Schurz banished from Germany, New York boot and shoe trade secession, Canton punishments with amputated tails, Texas coal discovery, and a Berlin dispatch confirming a pacific European policy. The Louisiana salt mine near New Iberia is touted as a southern wonder with vast inexhaustible potential.
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