17 May 1877
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Newspaper
Angelica Advertiser
Location
Angelica, New York, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1877
Page
1
The Angelica Advertiser announces weekly publication from Angelica New York. Publisher COTY highlights the paper devotes to politics literature local and general news and Allegany County interests with ready type presses and job work at reasonable rates.
A reflective meditation set beside a monastery garden. The speaker contrasts the tranquil hillside and orange bloom with the prisonlike tower and mossy walls. The nuns labor and pray, while questions arise about womanhood, vocation, and the lure of love beyond the wall.
Eve Wilton suspects her husband Tom of infidelity after finding his mother's love letters in a coat pocket. She purchases poison and plans suicide, but Tom returns home with the coat and saves her by seeking an antidote from a chemist. The incident ends with a reconciliation and a close call.
The piece extols the Baltimore girl as the peak of beauty amid a regional comparison of American women, praising Baltimore climate and Chesapeake abundance while critiquing Western cities. It lauds Boston for charm yet asserts true perfection resides on Chesapeake Bay shores.
Burlington Hawk Eye recounts the failed betrothal of Mr. Difflinger to a North Hill lady. His awkward vanity, the shoe mishap in her parlor, and a nightmarish exit through the wrong door end the courtship, leaving the match unmade and the suitor the subject of gossip.
In the Naturalist editorial Howgate proposes a U S backed polar expedition with fifty men at Lady Franklin Bay. The plan includes three officers two surgeons an astronomer and naturalists with yearly return voyages and fuel provisions for three years to establish a base between eighty one and eighty two degrees north.
A Minnesota settler’s daughter recounts a panther attack on her family's homestead. She describes the animal entering the chimney, flames from a sparked fire, and her rapid defense with an ax until the creature died. Her father returned to find the scene, mesmerized by his daughter's calm courage.
A 1822 letter from Daniel Webster to John Taylor at Marshfield discusses starting spring farm labor only when weather permits. He cites Virgil on plowing and planning, urging timely preparation and readiness to begin once warming conditions return, with vivid pastoral imagery of oxen, streams, and farm tasks throughout.
The article lists ten major wars including Napoleonic, Crimean, Italian, Danish, Austrian, Brazilian, American, Abyssinian, and Franco-German as the costliest era from 1890 to WB71. It estimates expenditures at 38.97 billion dollars and 11.7086 million men destroyed, with two-thirds charged to Napoleon I up to the Waterloos battle.
A garbled compilation recounts incidents from various locales including a Texas stage robber hiring a lawyer, hotel proprietors fearing unpaid board, an itinerant photographer and a mistaken child security matter. It shifts to reports from Eau Claire, Cincinnati and New York on crime, disasters, and a vivid London season detailing the Queen, royal attendance, and pageantry with diplomats and nobility.
A compact collection of moral injunctions urging truthful living and prudent conduct. It emphasizes punctual promises, sober company, diligent use of talent, honest speech, strong character, modest spending, and avoidance of debt. It also counsels personal virtue over rumors and prudent financial planning for youth.
A man living four miles out of the city hires a chiropodist to treat corns in a rain soaked visit. The patient, irate and intoxicated, demands brandy and threatens violence, while the doctor proceeds with the examination using his instruments in a tense confrontation.
The fragment discusses marriage economics and social ranking, noting women as figures who gain weight only with a husband’s presence. It argues that a wife’s status rises when aligned on the husband’s right side and diminishes when the husband shifts to a lesser position, framing gender roles in cryptic terms.
A long limey hunter in corduroy boards a ferry on Jersey water, boasts of sniping a day and drowning his dog chase. A German passenger counters with another odd tale, as a crowd listens. Edward Stokes and a theater sighting are noted in the crowd.
A fragmented, antiquated discourse blends musings on calamity and moral portraiture with reflections on literature and authority. It sketches a stern, simple man amid social pressures, interwoven with poets, names, and a satire of civil order and personal restraint.
A garbled OCR fragment references Pastron and Parisian fashion, mentioning tassels, thorns, scarlet, scarves, bonnets, silk net trims, coral jewelry, and crowd imagery. The text is incomplete with broken phrases and lacks clear events, people, dates, or locations.
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