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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1882
Page
8
The narrator recalls a moonlit scene by a gently gliding stream and professes love to Lady Clare. She responds with a cryptic line about catching a cold, ending the moment with a freezing, dreamlike exchange. The fragment blends romantic dialogue with rustic nature imagery.
Mrs Blossom hosts a book agent selling etiquette lessons in her parlor. The couple tries rigid rules at a reception, misreads social cues, and end up mocked by guests. The pair burn the etiquette volume in remorse.
A collage of short items: church salaries in England and New England, Rev William Howieson retires with a $4000 testimonial, Hartford plans a single-story high school with fire safety emphasis, Sir Charles Trevelyan on India conversion, the Children's Scripture Union expansion in London, a Brooklyn blacksmith-turned-Biblical scholar Ambrose S Otley near Booths Corner Delaware County PA.
An 19th century style advertisement mocks medical quackery. It promotes Boreman’s Sweet Vertifuge as a cure for various ills while sensationalizing public discomfort and moral decay. The piece ends with a nod to Wells’ Health Renewer and a Cincinnati distributor.
A column recalls humorous misprints and odd spellings from various regions and occasions. It cites a Nice & Good bookkeeper Simmons and a Devonshire Street broker, a Paris theatre accident, lazy speech in Kansas and Tennessee spellings, a Boston map error, a church anecdote, and a playful list of “Popular Prices” for a variety of performances and curiosities.
In a Chambers' Journal account, officials inspect three lead coffins from an old church undergoing repairs. The decayed embalmings show ragged skeletons tarred and disfigured, including a nobleman and a young woman likely of quality, provoking questions about burial in lead vaults and the dignity of rest.
The Arkansas Gazette recounts a long-ago guest list in Hot Springs, naming Jay Gould as the wittiest among visitors, Sunset Cox as the wittiest, Bob Toombs as the profanest, Senator West as the most eloquent, FE B Washburne as the most dignified, Dr Tanner as the leanest, W B Astor as the most liberal, General Hancock as the stateliest, and Senator Wigdom as the most pompous.
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