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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1894
Page
9
The article argues for and against wealthy American girls marrying European nobles. It cautions that motives include more than wealth or status, noting American independence, noble suavity, and gambling and religious differences abroad as friction points. It warns of social scrutiny and potential unhappiness if perceptions misread.
Mrs. Lydia Hoyt Farmer of Cleveland is described as a woman of varied achievements in arts and sciences. The piece lists her lineage, marriage to Hon. E. J. Farmer, children, published works, and recent historical novel The Doom of the Holy City Christ and Caesar, noting her religious devotion and Bible classes for young women.
The article notes increasing fruit consumption and the profitability of fig farming in California. Fig trees bear in two to three years, then require little work beyond harvests as crops persist for many years. A crystallizing method may extend shelf life, with a fig grower earning up to 500 dollars per acre last year.
A simple Welsh Rarebit style recipe to toast bread to a delicate brown and moisten with hot salted water. The dressing combines grated cheese butter egg yolks mustard and cayenne into a smooth paste spread on toast and served hot. Another version uses one egg per person with cheese butter salt and cayenne baked like custard in hot water.
Charles B. Jewis and M. Quan recount the July 21 1861 battle at First Bull Runbeginning with McDowells advance and Jackson counterattacks. The piece follows Confederate collapse at the center, Union disarray, and the panic retreat toward Centerville. It then shifts to Winchester Shenandoah Valley where local volunteers sign up, a lawyer Pierre Williams and Royal Kenton discuss neutrality, and the looming long war.
The passage recalls a rush to arms at Charleston and the North’s delay in accepting war. It notes the south’s firm stance against peace and the mounting excitement with each fateful day as the nation moves toward conflict.
San Francisco Chronicle recounts Jay Goulds nephew Fred Gould a 15 year old St Louis native who attended a public school in Oakland then moved to San Francisco. Despite being Abram Goulds son the will left him nothing from the Gould estate.
A reader recalls a thoughtful act where a lady, waiting outside a drug store while her carriage paused, returned with a second soda for the tired coachman. She then softly spoke to the restive horses, calming them with gentle talk, showing kindness to both human and animal.
The article notes nine million dollars of silver used annually in the U S arts with over a quarter made into solid spoons and forks. It adds five million for silversmith art, two and a half million for platedware, and about one and a half million for dentistry photography and surgery.
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