05 Dec 1868
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Newspaper
Cannelton Reporter
Location
Cannelton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1868
Page
1
A reflective essay on wealth, labor, and virtue argues riches come from effort and opportunity. It follows a poor printer who, through discipline, buys a press, hires workers, and builds a prosperous business while praising honest wealth and public benefit. It also warns parents to guard sons from nightfalls that breed vice.
A Philadelphia Ledger letter from Brazil extols the banana plantain as tropical wonder. One acre yields far more than cheat or potatoes, with perpetual fruiting, minimal care, and diverse uses from raw to roasted. A hammock-bound Native with a bunch within reach epitomizes contentment.
The Saturday Review profile argues upper class women cultivate vanity and idle loves, aided by favored physicians and patrons. It notes moral erosion, inability to mother, and dissolute imagination, linking social life to harmful mental and physical effects through anecdotes and critique.
In May at the Polytechnic Institute of London Prof Pepper showcased a Norwegian Cooking Apparatus a tin stew pan with a felted box seal and lid. The device cooks meat and vegetables by charging heat and keeping foods hot for hours. The article praises a hot cheap meal for workers and notes peasants in Norway favor boiled porridge and portable stew pans for field work.
Mr Coffin in Shanghai describes the Chinese queue as a social badge and ritual mark of life and death. The piece also discusses honey crystallization under light versus darkness and links this to photographic effects on chemical forms.
Agricultural notes extoll the apple as an economical staple and healthful dish, urging careful planting and storage. Practical prompts follow on selecting poultry, and avoiding overstocking by selling excess stock before severe weather. advice emphasizes home economy and prudent farm management.
A historical notice describes the Washington Dead Letter Office where over 15 000 letters are opened daily by female staff. It notes the challenges of damaged or missing contents and the strict system that returns letters to writers, sometimes with valuable items lost in transit.
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