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Newspaper
Bode Republican
Location
Bode, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1890
Page
4
A sprawling mosaic of curiosities and oddities spans theater, science, and everyday life. Notes on a near magical lifting rope scene in San Francisco, a British Columbia hoist, and a Philadelphia dining tale blend with essays on race and beauty, insurance scandals, and pennywise crooks.
In a Windsor Hotel dining room a grotesque, striking man is ushered to a table of elites. His diamond talisman, bold dress, and rapid charm unsettle onlookers as he chats with high society, prompting fascination and questions about his identity. A pawn broker Jacob Frankfort is named by a friend as noting his wealth.
An archaic narration extols the vastness of American territory from Maine to Alaska, describing a sunlit divide that wraps around the globe. It notes San Francisco as mid territory, the Aleutians west of the city, and a 196 degree longitude reach extending beyond half the globe.
A blurred colonial page mixes street scenes of a lone woman singing Home Sweet Home for coins with a boy begging mercy from a harsh passerby. It then surveys furs and rugs from animal skins praise, from lion and tiger to polar bear, Iceland sheep, and dyed skins. The note ends with Stanley marrying Dorothy Tennant after a tale of learning island marriage customs and a demand that a purchaser pay the bride price in the ceremony.
A dissipated uptown youth encounters a frightened, beautiful woman cast from a door in Bleeker Street. He pursues her to the river dock, saves her, promises support, and persuades her into a new life. Later, he inherits wealth, travels to Europe with his wife and child, then returns to a refined urban circle. An accompanying note discusses Asia’s cooling climate and historic animal migrations in China.
The text discusses copper jewelry and its importance among Indigenous groups along the Atlantic coast and in New England. Dr. Karlen C. Abbott cites early European accounts noting copper pieces as adornment and grave goods, with references from Virginia, southern tribes, and St Lawrence valley records.
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