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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1879
Page
4
A 19th century guidance column urges rubber overshoes for damp pavements and two pairs of shoes per child. It recommends Arctic style boots for deep snow, dry feet, and rapid warming, plus night garments with flannel and long drawers. It stresses warm beds, open fires for babies, and sleeping with warm blankets to prevent illness.
The article catalogs a wealth of winter fashion, noting revivals of redingotes and bustles, pocket muffs, black wraps, and jet bead trimming. It highlights lace trends Normandy point for muff trimming, new scarfs and three cornered necker chiefs, silk fabrics with jet bead patterns, high lace ruffs, and drapee silk cloaking. It also details street costumes in camel hair, corduroy, and velvet, along with intricate hairdressing and chatelaine braids.
The whaling schooner Petrel from Newburyport with twenty-one aboard rescued six men from the wrecked vessel of Captain Ivantich off Trieste after four days adrift. The survivors were exhausted and cold. one crewman died later, and the Petrel faced a brutal gale during the rescue.
General Thomas J. Brady reports inland mail lines in the United States totaling 1 059 railroad routes and 112 steamboat routes with mileage and costs. The land office year shows 9 333 353 acres disposed, led by homestead and timber culture entries, with receipts about 1 883 113.56 dollars and widespread timber losses estimated at 500 000 dollars annually. A Washington dispatch notes pensions funding pressures and post office campaign against lottery companies.
A mix of international dispatches, including warnings on lottery payments, a shorter presidential year, and wreck news as the steamship Arigona survived an iceberg collision and reached Newfoundland. Reports on Irish poverty, champagne district losses, and famine distress in Ireland accompany military actions in Peru and Chihuahua. The era’s advertisements tout remedies, insurers, and tonics amid global events.
A New York Graphic editorial argues that while devices like tasimeters and electric lights aid warning of icebergs or oncoming ships, they cannot replace a vigilant observer. Safe navigation requires trained personnel to read and interpret signs, as most collisions result from preventable human error.
A Warroo settler pioneered curing dried kangaroo tongues from slaughtered marsupials to curb waste. The tongues, often dried by smoke or canned like American tongue products, have spurred a growing trade as tails and skins have long served leather and soup stock in global markets.
A freight train bound west of Reno Nevada faced a swarm of crickets blocking three miles of track at Clarke's station. The wheels slid as crickets clung to rails, forcing crew to sweep them away with brooms to proceed after a two and a half hour delay. In Minnesota a man in Houston attempted suicide by shooting himself after a rejected marriage proposal, the woman briefly watching as he counted to three before the shot.
The satirical line jokes about patience as science predicts a distant ice age. It notes an extreme scenario of sixteen feet of ice enveloping the planet in 17,660,000 years, with a humorous claim that the ice man’s extortions will end.
A garbled line suggests a "beautiful woman" and a queen or scepter theme with implied wealth, but the text is severely corrupted and unreadable beyond these fragments. No clear event or names to anchor a full news summary.
A health note advises warming foods or hands by gentle warmth while avoiding hot water or direct heat from stoves or registers. Dr. Fhote's Health Monthly emphasizes safe handling of warmth for comfort and digestion.
An excerpt describes the nerves as a source of trial rather than a vehicle for agreeable sensation. The text reflects on how nerves contribute to discomfort and strain in a conditioned body, suggesting an intentional shift in perception.
The article promotes Hop Bitters as the ideal remedy to regulate bowels purify blood ease costiveness aid digestion and tone the whole system. It claims the product is pure perfect and harmless and signs off as Ed. Independent.
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