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Newspaper
Cambridge Herald
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1884
Page
4
The poem describes brown bees humming aloft and a humming bird soaring away. It questions dull social company and seeks light and freedom, contrasting sunlit gardens with a sense of confinement as a star leads night to the world. The speaker notes eager faces and longing to fly, yet remains bound.
Johnny longs for a sister and a louder home life as he visits Charley Dingle’s family and a menagerie. He plots to buy a sister with a pretend market, overhears his mother’s quiet world, and learns the limits of money and imagination in a child’s view of family.
A country boy Johnny buys a pretend sister for a quarter at a circus. A storm scatters families, Kathleen seems lost, Johnny finds her after a panic, and the mother adopts a new routine at home turning the piazza into a playground while Johnny adjusts to a new family life.
A Harper's Weekly inspired advice page warns about weak digestion symptoms from unsettled stomach to nervous complaints. It recommends moderated meals, regular eating times, specific foods to eat and avoid, and timing of fluids. It emphasizes diet variety and cautions against pastry sweets cheese and certain meats while preferring fish and meat as digestible options.
In sessions concluding yesterday Judge Scott heard several cases of women mutilation by nose cutting. He imposed three years rigorous imprisonment in each case rather than flogging. The piece argues for lash as a deterrent and criticizes imprisonment as insufficient to end cruelty, noting such mutilation remains a widespread customary penalty among degraded classes worldwide.
The San Francisco Chronicle declares the Comstock lode a squeezed orange after six years with no value found for stockholders. It warns readers that mine stocks are worthless and says the bonanza dream is over while investors for ten years funded ventures at Virginia City, chasing former fortunes.
A Col. St. Louis Globe Democrat dispatch describes Mexican workers' pay from sixty to seventy-five cents for a carpenter or mason, twenty-five to fifty cents for a day laborer, and two to five dollars monthly for a farm laborer. They toil long hours, smoke cigars, and survive on coarse food. The pelado, mostly Indian, despises Spaniards and foreigners, dislikes railroads, and fears Americans, yet individuals are decent though the collective can be morally limited.
The article notes Minnesota’s preemption rules limited settlers to a quarter section, fostering many small farms per township. It credits rapid settlement, church and school creation, mills, roads, and diversified early industry with making Minnesota wealthy in a short time, emphasizing thorough cultivation by many farmers.
The Cleveland Herald notes farmers can save time and money by building a dry wood stock and a simple drawing bench with vise, knives, chisels, augurs, and hatchet. By repairing handles and wagon tongues themselves, they avoid delays from town repairs and ensure quality work without relying on an external shop.
The examining physician notes admissions at Bellevue Asylum have doubled from last year with most cases due to intemperance. He cites speculation and stock declines driving people to drink, linking financial losses to lunacy and the rise in admissions in the era of Wall Street turmoil.
A Worcester church college club secretary writes that St Jacob's Oil, called the conqueror of pain, is the best cure used by members. The circular notes high approval and lists the price as 50 cents a bottle.
An elderly man and his daughter ride the St Louis express. The daughter pleads not to be taken to an asylum, revealing she attended a distant seminary and has suffered mental distress. The piece links rising insanity to overtaxed nerves and promotes Warner's Tippecanod The Best as a safe tonic to restore stomach health and calm nerves.
A cornet correspondent reports Mount Vesuvius near paroxysmal activity with lava and bright flame seen 300 feet above water. The spectacle delights travelers and alarms locals as the crater glows like molten iron in a brilliant display near Santa Lucia.
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