24 Apr 1895
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1895
Page
1
Editors Intelligencer argues for better mule stock by selecting superior brood mares and well-bred jacks to raise a faster, healthier, more capable draft mule. Emphasizes balanced conformation, strong shoulders, ribbed heart-lung chamber, and sturdy legs to reduce lameness and improve work capacity.
A Boston exhibit introduces a roller style gin that seeks to match the ideal gin by seizing cotton from the seed without excessive fiber damage. It blends a rapidly moving knife edge with a rubber roll to draw cotton, while a fast striker helps remove seeds. experts compare it to the historic Osgood gin and urge Southern inventors to pursue improved rapid models.
A Georgia writer reflects on spring, garden toil, and family life amid Civil War memories. He recalls rationing, the homecoming of soldiers, Sherman’s toils, and a perilous escape to safety with his wife and children. The piece blends personal nostalgia with wartime hardship and postwar reconstruction.
Augita Evening Journal profiles Zion Bridwell, veteran printer and patriarch of Atlanta’s Typographical Union, detailing his 60 year career from Pendleton Messenger to the Chesterville Observer and Atlanta Intel ligencer. The piece notes his early life in South Carolina, wartime work in Louisville, and long tenure in Atlanta, where he and his wife were prominent printers. Neighbors describe his home on Pine Street, surrounded by pets, as a testament to a life dédiée to the press.
A fanciful 2400 year old Paris story claims Cinderella's real name was Rhodope, an Egyptian maiden circa 670 BCE. A small shoe, an Egyptian king, and a mythical search end with Rhodope becoming queen of Psammatious in Memphis. Also a medical ad notes Chamberlain's remedy for bilious colic and diarrhoea with 25 and 50 cent bottles from Hill Bros.
Aged primitive Baptist minister Rev J M Jessup in Sandy Ridge Alabama collapsed during a sermon and died after ingesting strychnine from bread crumbs intended to poison sparrows. He carried sugar to clear his throat for sermons. A feud between a weaver and a tailor ended with muttered insults and a blunt remark about shared deceit.
An Atlanta stage incident from La Mascotte at the_hdlge wood Avenue theater last summer ends with Miss Adelaide Randall provoking chorus men to kiss her forcefully then dousing one offender with a bucket of water. The audience hailed it as the season’s finest acting.
A Massachusetts soldier Morris Woodbury returns to his Virginia wife and their son after being believed dead in the Civil War. The reunion occurred in Manchester, where the family declined to discuss the event. Other snippets note a Pamlico County infant burned in an oven and a Georgia joke sign about marriages for wood or pork, plus remarks on abstinence from liquor and a testimonial about Chamberlain's Pain Balm.
A collage of quips, anecdotes, and jests spans self discipline, industry, and daily life. Includes misused phrases, humorous exchanges, odd facts, and quaint regional tales, with snippets about Patagonian mosquitos, beggars taxed in China, a Leavenworth bean incident, and domestic remedies cited by mothers.
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