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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1879
Page
2
A reflective verse extols little women and their noble qualities. The speaker likens small women to precious stones and lumps of sugar, using imagery of snow and flames to emphasize sweetness and growth of love.
A fragmentary quotation extols the value of a small woman as paradise on earth. The text compares her charm to dyes in a ruby and notes beauty, fidelity, and love. It references poetry and maxims about choosing the lesser evil and mentions Longfellow.
An elderly narrator recalls an evening when nephew Philip and Jeanie Morris unexpectedly reunite with Judith, provoking awkward tension and a tense emotional moment as long simmering relationships surface. The scene centers on a chance convergence and the awkward dynamics it creates among the trio.
Judith confronts a troubled house as Jeanie leaves and Philip vanishes after a heated quarrel. The narrator reveals a letter from Jeanie, while Judith demands answers about Philip and the girl in the house. Suspicions rise as the trio confront potential betrayals and hidden plans.
In a Victorian drawing room a tangled love triangle unravels as Jeanie plans to elope with Philip, only to be confronted by Judith. Phillip reveals a Rome romance with Jeanie, while Judith exposes a cruel wager and reconciles the couple with family aid and a late supper.
A Brussels Melbourne Argus tale recalls a lady with a diamond eye replacing her natural one. A Paris adventurer married her after admiring the gem, then vanished with the prize after squandering her wealth. The note warns arsenic poisonings from wallpaper as a real health danger.
The article surveys fashionable summer attire including ecru mitts with black outfits, white barege outfits trimmed with Breton lace, new waist designs with lace panels, linen collars with English points, and linen shirts with stitched hems. It describes bonnets with bronze bead crowns, black net fringe brims, and lace jabot-like neck details. Hair trends include flat bandeaus, catogans, cache peigne arrangements, and false hair usage.
A terrier bulldog stolen a year ago from Lord Dufferin in Canada is involved in a dramatic incident in Terre Haute Indiana. The dog attacked a horse, tearing the rider’s shirt, and was later shot by Marshal Langolf after a sequence of violent encounters with horse riders and carriages. The tale continues with unrelated notes on eccentric figures and local curiosities.
Mrs. Honora Lacy of Chester county Pennsylvania burned to death when her carriage caught fire after she bought inflammables in Wilmington. Friction from matches on the carriage floor ignited her clothing as her horse dashed on, limbs burned, and she survived ten hours before dying at dawn.
A newspaper editor speculates on a baseball game between the Basehits and the Hotliners. Twistem pitches with a fierce fastball, Holdemfast deciphers his signs, eight strikeouts highlight the performance, and a lone hit stirs the crowd before the room erupts and the editor exits seeking relief from the bet.
A reflective note from the Oil City Derrick recalls inventors of the locomotive, telegraph and telescope and questions who owned the goose that supplied pens for Shakespeare, linking ingenuity across ages.
In a street car scene, Mr Jollyboy yells about pricing and exaggeration, claiming ten cents can beat a first man and promising more for the spot, while others react to the sudden dispute.
A comic dialogue between lovers reveals clashes over wealth and wedding plans. The bride mocks reliance on money while insisting she will not be hired as a servant, and the groom clutches his pocketbook amid their shifting ambitions and sarcasm. The scene ends with their separation as trust frays.
A miscellany of quotable observations and curiosities including notes on rice production, the Dead Sea, literacy in China, a Dubuque miss on wrongdoing, a restaurant waiter joke, William T. Hornaday’s world tour and display plans, and a short verse about perception in advertisements.
In a south wind off Penzance the French brig Ponthieu ran ashore. Coastguards and rockets aided a perilous rescue as Captain refused help until the final moment, when he grasped a rope and was hauled ashore. Five crewmen were plucked from the sea, while the vessel broke up behind them.
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