11 Jun 1879
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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1879
Page
1
A wary household hosts a peddler who pitches lightning rods at cost. The visitor wins trust with claims of divine mercy and modern science, then pushes a binding contract. The narrator signs under pressure, sees bills soar as his home is wired, and learns a hard lesson about predatory sales.
A garbled OCR fragment references a department and an enter pass and mentions a person or entity by name in a disrupted dialogue. The readable bits provide no clear event or outcome to frame a concrete news item.
Kitty mingles with raspberries and a sunlit country scene. A charming picnic leads to a playful encounter with a mystery young man linked to the Wylies and a disputed knoll, sparking romance amid family tensions.
In a July gathering at the Wylies, Hugh Greystone wins favor with Mr. Wylie after agreeing to settle a dispute over land. Kitty, Mary Wylie’s cousin, basks in attention while a raspberry float causes a stir and a past quarrel looks settled. Hugh promises to marry Kitty as autumn nears.
The piece notes 20,000 British troops in or headed to the South African campaign, with annual pay and maintenance around 750 dollars per man. It warns of rising costs, potential reinforcements from the Household Brigade, and grave hardships including disease, poor water, and supply difficulties. The Spectator estimates 2,500 best troops sacrificed, and a scandalous cost of revenue and lives per acre.
A fragmented montage of era jests and musings features burlesque lines about Taunton and Macon, a Colorado health joke, and a chorus of oddball exchanges. Vignettes include a dust joke, a hired girl wager, and a frog scolding a cow, all signed by nameless correspondents like Inertia.
The article details summer fashion shifts with new dress forms, coats and basques, panier draperies, and wide use of stripes and Pompadour patterns. It notes color blending, diverse millinery, and the rise of cheese cloth dresses as affordable options for women and children.
The article compares moist and dry heat burns and outlines treatment from cold water and glycerine to lard. It warns that extensive burns threaten the nervous system, advising hot water immersion, arabic gum dressings, collodion with sweet oil, or flour as needed, while warning against liniments.
A Darmstadt youth, son of a professor, plans to marry a girl and both drown in a nearby wood after tying themselves. The man escapes as the girl drowns. He received three years and nine months in prison. The report next cites a light note on a Calico Ball by Decalgradt FC and a comic about a man with a borrowed umbrella.
A description of the social nuisance known as a buzzer. The piece portrays the bore as talkative and self-assured, able to extract every detail from others with ease. It notes the paradox of needing to endure such chatter in polite gatherings, while revealing the buzzer’s vanity and social ease.
A speaker recalls Hope drawing near during grief and loneliness. Hope offers comfort with a gentle touch that brings visions of nature and a singing voice sharing a deathless song of victory and future love. The speaker feels renewed as if returning from the dead and rises upright at the moment.
This item compiles assorted curiosities and trivia: coal consumption in Great Britain, cattle counts, pig population trends, oil wells, and U S swine numbers across 1875 1878 1879. It includes quips from Sunday school, a tale of a powder magazine strike by lightning, humorous exchanges about heaven and safety, a rescue by a mother in Corydon Ind and notes on new dental anesthesia replacing drilling with extraction then restoration.
A collage of quotes on manners affection absence and friendship from Emerson Bulwer Lytton Churchill and others, interspersed with a short death notice and a verse urging virtue. The piece blends moral maxims with reflective snippets about soul care and conduct. The tone resembles a period reader with aphoristic reflections.
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