07 Sep 1882
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Newspaper
Bainbridge Democrat
Location
Bainbridge, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1882
Page
1
A lengthy piece blending elegy for lost loved ones with a dark comic tale of Buffum and a patent bedstead. The narrative shifts to moral snippets, quotes about women, local gossip, political notes, and a strangling mass notice in Choctaw county with a violent plot discovery.
A Bay City Michigan woman posed as a man and clerked for a year before seeking Knights of Pythias membership. During the third degree the disguise failed as an india rubber rat and a celluloid snake were used to test recruits. The woman remained calm but reacted loudly to the rat. The episode may prompt secret-society scrutiny. one lodge reportedly checks feet and bars candidates with cold feet.
A husband, who cut his whiskers at his wife's repeated request, returned home to be hugged and kissed, then confronted with horror as she asked if it was him. Proceedings for divorce have begun.
In Clay Street, Mattrick Parfey loses his pocketbook with $500. His wife returns it with sarcasm. She fakes elopement to teach him a lesson, hiding to watch his despair. He reads the note, jokes about the situation, and the couple’s household mood darkens as a rolling-pin mention lingers.
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