23 Sep 1886
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Newspaper
Chariton Democrat
Location
Chariton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1886
Page
1
A fragmentary verse and prose piece by O. W. Bryan describes a garden scene with blossoms and a hidden serpent. It juxtaposes beauty and danger, urging readers to seek virtue and tread carefully through life’s day by avoiding folly and vice.
A narrator recalls a June evening in a sunlit garden as a corncrake’s call blends with children's voices. Mrs. Hartley senses a distant memory while a tale unfolds of Eunice, her love Tom Marsden, poaching, and a looming family fracture tied to a cottage by Northover woods.
A collection of simple arithmetic brainteasers asks about costs for tobacco and shoes, walking times to a wood pile and grocery, wood cutting versus travel, a cook’s pay and damages, a young lady’s outing cost, a tramp and dog chase, maple sugar sharing, saddle horse risks, orange division among boys, and related quick calculations designed for classroom drills. The items rely on unit rates, distances, and basic fractions to arrive at numeric answers.
The Newburyport Herald reviews 1821 1832 school records noting the mix of clergy and town officials on the committee and a larger body in 1823. It contrasts teacher pay with 1831 rates for Mr Roger S Howard and assistants, Lancasterian masters at 500 yearly, and female grammar school precress salaries of 75 and 50 dollars.
The author urges choosing top quality seed potatoes at digging. Favor medium sizes free from blemish or disease, stored separately and dried thoroughly. Consistent selection yields gradual improvements, especially in poor seasons, with best results achieved when seed, soil, and cultivation are all strong.
The article warns fall sowing of clover is risky unless soil is well prepared and conditions favorable. Spring sowing on wheat is easier when soil is loose after frost. Millet tolerates poorer soil. seed rates are given and crop rotation is advised to avoid declining yields.
Prairie Farmer notes late hatched chicks often fail to thrive due to polluted air and ground. It recommends fresh ground, shade, and clean grass runs or bare earth with cut grass to maintain cleanliness. Grass becomes polluted quickly in crowded spaces, harming small chicks more than larger birds.
A terse exchange occurs when I ask a stern passenger about offspring, highlighting a sharp, nasal response and a charged social encounter aboard.
Ferguson says goodbye to Mabel and heads for New York on a short business trip. She asks a final favor and confesses a troubling wish asking him to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. He agrees to fulfill any request.
Captain Nigglesworth, a Legislature candidate, visits old Sam Saber’s house after supper. A boy boasts of killing a water moccasin and says he will tell people he sat on the captain’s knee while noting his father doubts Nigglesworth’s chances.
A Chicago business leader urges parents to teach simple drowning prevention methods echoing a prior article. A daughter survived a Lake Michigan capsize after recalling the advised technique of locking hands behind the back inflating lungs and expelling water. The note warns of rising drownings and the method aids even swimmers. In a separate piece, a spider’s appetite is described with dramatic intake figures, illustrating the voracious hunter’s dietary capacity and hypothetical human equivalents for meals.
A traveling man at the Michigan Central station notes that women who travel outnumber men in the US by about four to two and that women endure fatigue and enjoy travel more readily than men, shaping American travel reputation.
A local yarn reports Burdette’s ice cream hazards with venom and strychnine, then a tale of W.8. Thornton who dies after scooping fifteen cents worth while a street noise interrupts him. an air tight box and a fatal accident frame the grim irony.
A disjointed exchange where Bobby asks if God does everything and the old man warns against foolish questions. The passage hints at a tension between belief and doubt as characters reflect on divine omnipotence.
A collage of old ads and quips appears, promoting Dr J H McLean products by D Q Storie, with humorous exchanges about door slams, canal boats and a Wall Street figure Bill Travers. Miscellaneous jokes cover health, travel, love and domestic life in brisk vignettes.
A frontier advertisement touts Bucklen Arnica Salve as the best for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee 25 cents a box sold by D Q Storie. A comic item notes a deaf dumb and blind man seen leaving church before collection.
Local sellers report Hood's Sarsaparilla in high demand across towns, with Lowell Massachusetts noted as a center producing and selling more of the tonic than any other sarsaparilla. The ad claims it cures debility scrofula dyspepsia and biliousness tied to impure blood.
An alcove scene at a social event shows Aunt Alice handling a child’s playful demand with tact. The niece sits on her knee when the child exclaims Kiss me, Aunt Alice. Alice replies gently that she should not urge a kiss but that the child may kiss her later. The moment demonstrates propriety and presence of mind.
A mixed column of comic vignettes and chatter from a San Francisco Chronicle page. It includes a tale about a wife’s dignity amid a befuddled husband, a jokey piano remark at a picnic, a bridegroom’s misheard hook joke, a child’s witty fish tale, and a light reminiscence of luck at a Sunday dinner.
A country minister finds a boy with a fishing rod by the road on Sunday. He asks if the boy is going fishing, and the youth replies he is fishing for suckers, not soles, prompting a small, humorous exchange reported in the New York Times.
A landlord guides a guest to a 7 by 9 room on the top floor and boasts the view. The guest finds it stuffy but notes the sense of being seen as the landlord quips that the country sees you as well.
Bobby praises the meal and asks the minister if it was good. The minister laughs and confirms he enjoyed the dinner as well. The exchange highlights appreciation for simple pleasures in life at a family meal.
Winchester druggist reports Mrs. Louisa Pike of Bartonia Randolph County Indiana, long sick with consumption, was given up by physicians. After using Dr King s New Discovery for Consumption, she recovered enough to walk six miles to town and now is much improved and has ceased use. Free trial bottles at D Q Stories Drug Store.
A six year old child received baptism in a local church on a recent Sunday, described as a bright and cheerful youngster. The event was noted in brief society notices highlighting the family's participation.
A prominent printing office advertises its well equipped shop ready to handle city and country work with neat results. It notes receipt of wedding invitations in latest designs and an elegant line of dance programs, praised for beauty and usefulness.
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