12 Dec 1889
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Newspaper
Cambridge City Tribune
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1889
Page
1
A devotional poem elevates the eternal God as creator and guide. The speaker extols God as supreme, infinite, and omnipresent, while declaring human smallness and longing to dwell in divine light. The ethos blends awe, worship, and metaphysical reflection on existence, spirit, and the cosmos.
The Indianapolis Journal laments marriages between American girls and foreign suitors. It argues fathers loudly denounce such matches but later capitulate, training daughters to seek advantageous marriages and accepting foreign connections and debts. The piece warns that fathers are to blame for reversing traditional family training.
There are nearly 18,000 carpet workers of both sexes in Philadelphia according to the report. The figure highlights substantial employment in the trade across the city, reflecting the industry’s scale and integration with local commerce.
Alice Thornton rejects social restraint to chase a New Orleans style romance with Lawrence Gerald while Henry Clifford warns her away. A note to her former fiancé leads to Clifford’s California voyage and a dramatic late reunion with Miss Burdenett, who is Alice under another name. In time, Clifford helps a sick woman and learns Burdenett is his long lost love, yielding a renewed future together.
A historical remark describes a man with an artificial eye who wore three distinct eyes each day. One eye suited morning light with a larger pupil, another for afternoon with a smaller pupil, and a third for evening when the pupil fully dilated, illustrating personal vanity in adaptation.
Gabriel Bouvalot depicts a salt drenched Central Asia where walls and river banks glisten with salt and even drinking water tastes saline. Saltpeter workers travel seasonally using rough vats ovens and fires fueled by brushwood to boil composted earth and animal manure into salt then sell about fifty pounds daily at one penny per pound.
In Biddeford two men were hired to dig a grave on a family lot. A slender worker and a 800 pound man fell deep in the hole and could not climb out. A makeshift machine saved the fat man, who then returned to the surface. The woman paid each man five quarts of gray henesnong to keep them out of danger for a while.
Two women teach free daily gold beating in a Park Row basement once part of Chatham Square. Spectators watch as thin sheets of gold leaf are produced from virgin gold using a raised board table, wooden tongs, knives, and careful folding onto pink pages for sign painters and decorators. The process is rapid and unhurried, with light and technique shaping each delicate sheet.
The piece argues many people, including workers, lack independent thinking and rely on rules out of season. It advocates education reforms to teach thinking as a habit, suggesting science alone won’t suffice. It proposes presenting ideas as interconnected rather than complete in themselves to foster reasoning.
In Surrey county North Carolina a natural curiosity rises east of the Blue Ridge. A massive rock sphinx shape stands with a head many hundreds of feet high and shoulders like a living statue. It towers about 1500 feet above the Piedmont plain and is visible for miles.
An Edinburg correspondent notes the connecting girder between the south and center spans of the Forth Bridge was joined in the middle on Oct 10. Arrol oversaw the work with engineers Perr and Moir present. Bolt-holes aligned within fractions of an inch aided by hydraulic pressure and heat. The north side girders advance toward 60 feet gap, with 800 tons of steel per bridge and 1,700 workers today.
A vivid, era-laden reminiscence contrasts Jessie and Victoria Vokes with Fred and Rosina to describe a celebrated quadrille turned flying romp. The piece rails against artificial footwear in favor of graceful footwork and laments the loss of natural movement in modern dance before invoking John Ruskin and Mendelssohn.
I. M. Weston, former Grand Rapids mayor, recalls a pamphlet claim that Jefferson Davis built the first sawmill in Wisconsin and perhaps the Northwest. Davis, a U.S. Army lieutenant under Zachary Taylor, married Taylor’s daughter. The government sent a mill to Fort Crawford, Prairie du Chien, then Davis located and operated a mill on the Chippewa River, marking a pioneer lumber venture in the region.
The coldest region is along the northern border from the Minnesota lakes to western Dakota. Pembina near the 49th parallel recorded minus 56 degrees in the winter of 1873, the lowest temperature reached in the United States on that day.
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