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Newspaper
Birtle Observer
Location
Birtle, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 19, 1888
Page
4
A jagged miscellany mixes a spiritual plea drawn from AS YOU LIKE IT style with reflections on wealth, poverty, and virtue. It blends a lyric prayer for home and divine favor with social observations: Kentucky counties without churches, cash as key to success, and a Crown heads travel note. The tone resembles a late 19th or early 20th century patchwork column.
Ontario wage data from 1854 and 1887 reveal mixed trends across trades. Builders see rising pay while bricklayers and carpenters slip. metal workers and plumbers show modest gains. many manufacturing and craft sectors face declines or instability. Overall average wages fall from $12 in 1854 to $9.50 in 1887 amid uneven industry shifts.
Merbel P. Wilder, a humorist, recounts recent experiences in London. He describes a dreary reception with many smiling or posed attendees and notes the audience sat still without movement.
Mrs Acule Jeunes, known in dress reform circles, advocates letting girls choose modest styles and grow up without restrictive garments. She notes 5000 garments daily worn and cites Michigan as advancing high art in women’s dress with twenty Dress Clubs forming.
In a North American essay, the old maid is praised for noble contribution to society, cheerful resilience, and selfless care. The piece argues matrimony is not the sole noble path, and many women value single life for its unseen service to others.
An American exchange notes led by Mrs Cleveland and Mrs Garfield issue an open letter to Japanese women about adopting Western attire. It argues Japanese dress remains elegant, while Western fashion risks health concerns, household cost spikes, and interior remodeling.
The piece analyzes traits behind a well liked girl. Popularity stems from friendliness and warm speech rather than looks or wealth. She brightens faces, offers kind sympathy, and devotes energy to helping others, often making her own simple clothes and contributing time.
A rich New York woman interred her Skye terrier with lavish rites and costly burial, paying 600 for the coffin and 250 for a Woodlawn plot, while a starving young mother sought coins to feed her rich baby nearby, illustrating a starkly uneven world.
An old family tale follows a young girl Bessie who demands her sister Margaret dress her doll at the wedding. During the ceremony Bessie interrupts, declaring she and her doll will be part of the wedding, shocking the congregation and prompting a dramatic moment before the service continues.
Boston wholesalers sought to buy sugar below refiners’ prices but refiners raised prices by a half cent to a cent, leaving grocers no net gain. The sugar trust kept profits stable as competition and price moves continued without clear benefit to either side.
Elsie Challoner adjusts to life at Villa Rossa in San Remo after fleeing Whitestrand. She hides the truth from Winifred while Hugh Mas singer gloats over his deception. Warren Rell plans to visit, Edie pushes family ties, and a new marriage rumor stirs the quiet Riviera orbit.
Green shades dominate the season with gold en greens and moss tones in hats and luxurious fabrics. Imported heavy jerseys replace street jackets, while elaborate trims include jet, gimp, passementerie, and silver embroideries on black gowns. Exotic inspirations from India to China drive novel gowns and opulent tea gowns.
The piece explains sponge gathering methods from the Bahamas and the Mediterranean using cranes and divers. It notes water clarity aids sponge spotting, the processing on ships, and the large Bahamian trade valued around 250000 dollars annually with over five million sponges shipped yearly. It mentions casual tourism and domestic uses of sponges.
Popular Science Monthly details a device called the Echo-maker. A flaring funnel attaches to a rifle muzzle to project sound toward an obstacle. If the obstacle is present the echoed sound returns, revealing distance by the delay. Naval Board tests show echoes heard from a fort half a mile away and from ships about a quarter mile off.
Poem extols sacrificial gifts to a king or deity. Pillared souls and temples rise through devotion and love. The verse reflects on mortality and eternity, urging generous offerings to uphold sacred causes.
A fragment meditates on an autumn sunset cloudland described as a grand reality of nature. Vivid colorings and sombre edges are praised, with gold purple saffron and salmon tones set against a silver backdrop.
A poetic meditation on labor, reward, and the fate of noble minds under hardship. The speaker laments uneven rewards for toil, praises perseverance, and contrasts integrity with worldly power as adversity tests genius and virtue.
In Dearborn County Indiana William Liddle and Jesse Crim wagered they could outpull two horses. The horses strained snapped a timber, striking Crim and rendering him unconscious for about an hour before he recovered with no serious injury.
The paper-bottles industry has gained traction in the West and spreads across the United States. Paper bottles offer lower cost, lighter weight, and reduced packing losses from breakage compared with glass or tin, with special machinery forming tubes wrapped in glazed paper and finished with paper or wood bottoms and necks. The inside is lined to resist acids, inks, and dyes, enabling use for varied liquids.
In New Hampshire a boastful last generation hunter recounts a bear hunting tale. While resting by a rock he jokes about bear meat and suddenly spots a huge bear on the rock. The bear vanishes into the woods leaving the hunter humbled by the encounter.
The account traces John Jacob Astor’s rise from a German immigrant to founder of a fur and trade empire. It recounts his voyage to America in 1783, early work under Robert Bowne, establishing a Water Street shop in 1786, and grueling travels to Indian country. It notes his London voyage, profit from East India trade, sandalwood monopoly, and the Astoria venture that failed due to the War of 1812.
About a year ago a will filed in Pesth by physician Goldberger de Buda left half his fortune about a quarter of a million florins to accumulate for posterity until interest could relieve destitution. The testator estimated the capital needed at 209 million florins to fulfill his plan. The will is now contested by a legatee, with trials set for November and claimants anticipated from London the United States and Madrid.
A hobo explains his perpetual unemployment and odd cravings while asking for a slice of pie. Separately a new shotgun penetration test uses stacked boards and cardboard spacers to gauge pellet penetration through a boiler plate hole.
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