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Newspaper
Brimfield Gazette
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1879
Page
3
A reflective piece on character and daily life. It argues kindness to animals mirrors human kindness, warns against overwork from self imposed burdens, and stresses reserve power, domestic virtue, and the value of tempering mood with courtesy. It links inner sunshine to outer beauty and urges living for others.
Shortly before noon a Canada Southern train leaving Central Depot led to the arrest of two youths by Specials Wiley and Kief. A girl in male disguise, Emma Simonson 14, and Harry Clark 17, residents of Flint, Mich., admitted the ruse and were jailed with modest sums found. The paper also reports a Lost Planet Hilda and a Rural New Yorker farm notes section with tips on cattle, beekeeping, and farming experiments.
A New York Herald style explainer contrasts horse power to steam power and presents practical conversions for land area and weights. It offers an arithmetic table for acres from varied field dimensions, a simple interest ruler, and tips on cooking, furs care, and laundering laces with household methods.
The text claims boiled celery water cures rheumatism. Celery is boiled until soft and the water is consumed by the patient. A celery based milk sauce with flour and nutmeg is served warm with toast and potatoes, as a suggested meal. It also notes Holland’s population is about a million less than within a 1 mile radius of the General Post Office, London.
The readable text hints at a process involving bottle cleaning using lace and a mechanism labeled Ince. It mentions half a dozen bottles and cleaning lace in a sequence with odd-minute tacking, though many words are garbled. The fragment does not specify a location or date.
In an address at Andover last week, Dr Richard S Storrs extols feminine courage and self devotion as a noble grace. He cites Harriet Nowell Florence Nightingale and Joan of Arc among examples, praising Prussian women and the Paris Louvre as moral schools.
The American Newspaper Union Advertising Company will pay tethers for rent at the actain, supplying Dubliners with partly printed streets. Decision to be announced in Wamphile of August to KW FOSTER, Secretary.
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