04 Oct 1873
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Newspaper
Aiken Tribune
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1873
Page
1
The notice lists single copies available for 12 months 6 months and 3 months with the phrase strictly in advance. It presents a pricing or service option likely for subscriptions or deliveries and emphasizes advance payment.
A reflective verse lamenting urban decay and praise for rustic forest living. The speaker longs for months of hunting, clear air, and cabin light over brick and mill towns, recalling vanished hands, pine shadows, and crystal springs as October’s ideal.
A writer reports Munich as very cheap with hotel fares lower than elsewhere in Europe. Daily living costs around 2.50 dollars, cheap carriage, affordable cigars, and English goods. cherries plentiful and inexpensive. A six person party dines well for under forty cents per person, with meals at a top restaurant for about six florins total. Also notes cheap boots, razors, and clothes, plus labor expectations. An naval academy exam includes Alonzo McClernan of South Carolina, with Conyers failing last June and hoping for another chance.
A vivid tour of Paris at night describes gaslit boulevards crowded with cafes and promenaders. Stores blaze with light along Boulevard des Capucines while gendarmes stand watch. Viennese gardens and music contrast Parisian nightlife. The piece notes clean streets, quiet order, and Paris’s renewed beauty as thousands linger to enjoy the spectacle.
A contemplative appreciation of marriage’s joy as companionship and devotion. The essay contrasts married life with bachelor loneliness, praising a wife as a devoted partner who shares health, wealth, travel, and home, while the absence of a spouse renders life bleak and solitary.
A fervent essay declares talents advance despite jealous power or party spite. It lauds stamina as path to glory, predicting enduring recognition for true greatness. It rejects envy as futile, asserting genius endures while lesser minds fade like swallows in spring.
A Paris letter argues modern fire safety measures curb blazes in the city. It notes heavy use of iron and cement, fireproof stairs, iron shutters, limited steam engines, widespread mansard roofs, and strict building laws. Firefighters, termed sapeurs pompiers, act with military discipline under police orders.
A fragment discusses rest and sleep as a universal remedy, claiming sleep improves temper, irritability, and various ailments from dyspepsia to headaches. It asserts sleep strengthens health and mental state, listing cures like hypochondria and nervous disorders, ending with a question about a horse and work.
A Brooklyn judge’s stance on unmarried affection provokes debate on binding promises. The article also reports a high auction for Duchess family cattle, with eleven animals selling for $330,890 and receipts highlighting imports from Duchess County, New York, dating back to 1853.
A sweeping cattle sale at New York Mills drew broad attention from bidders across regions including Kentucky Minnesota and Canada. Notable attendees included names linked to aristocracy and business, with bids reaching 15000 and rising to 28000 before selling to Thomas J Megisvern of Indiana for 12000. The Duchess family led the sale with the First Duchess of Quindae among the highlights.
The article warns most must use water when mixing mustard and flour. It argues water causes blistering and pain, suggesting to mix mustard with the white of an egg instead. It claims this avoids blistering and yields a better drawing plaster, citing an old practitioner and experience.
A segment from the Union newspaper describes a Nashville club naming the Club of Rejected Lovers. Membership hinges on the fact of rejection by a young woman, with social standing and repute as qualifiers. The piece lampoons the idea and notes its sensational, satirical tone, referencing exclusive access to poor but young men and a dramatic bylaws clause. It also mentions a bizarre anecdote about a Langigst living specimen and a Newark market sale tale, plus Wisconsin convention talk of protective measures and government-backed transportation.
The notice outlines advertising rates and payment rules. It mandates Liberal reductions for contracts and requires transient ads to be paid in cash. Advertisers must submit their orders before noon on Friday each workweek. Benry Sparnick is listed as editor and proprietor.
Salmagundi notes Lord Chief Justice Benjamin and Lord Shaftesbury on confessional strokes, a Chicago publisher’s death by locomotive, sermons in Wisconsin and California, and odd quips about age and marriage. It mentions Liberia expeditions, Tredegar Works layoffs, and a quirky music order.
A brief speech notes the Shah’s visit to parliaments and institutions of Europe to study governance. A Danbury resident shows a visitor a home with many pot plants and jokes about heat and spittoons. A Nashville reporter’s florid obituary phrase leads to a salary increase for the writer.
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