08 May 1880
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Newspaper
Chester Daily Times
Location
Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1880
Page
1
J. W. LeMaistre of Hamburg advertises embroideries laces white goods real and Nottingham lace curtains and related textile wares for home decor and fashion.
Announcing the opening of twenty four cases featuring the latest Paris novelties in millinery. Bonnets round hats for ladies and children, fancy braids, French chip, English dunstables, Tuscan styles, plus Sailor hats and trimmed Paris bonnets. Large selection of flowers ostrich feathers ribbons silks in fresh shades, with many other novelties and grand Paris display.
Reports of a Frankfort Ky prison escape attempt ending with a deadly shot and captures, plus murder trials and death sentences pending in Maryland and Connecticut. Other items include a Long Island water naptha test, a Princetown storm sinking, grave robbery near Franklinton, and World’s Fair commission plans. Also a lengthy excerpt on opium use and dangers.
A dispatch reports novelist Marian Evans married on Thursday to Mr Cross. Other items note heavy rains and crop damage in parts of Spain, distress in Kilree near Loughrea with potential famine, the appointment of George J. Goshen as British Ambassador to Turkey, and Prince Leopold's planned voyage from Liverpool on the DirIan for Montreal with uncertainty about a U S visit.
A hungry, tired Maryland boy named Joseph, once cared for by farmer Jacob Voorhis in Galena New Hampshire, wanders to Union Square, New York. He tells an officer his mother and father died, he ran away to seek schooling, and expresses resolve to work and learn. He asks if there are big schools and is told there are, then agrees to take any offered work to fund his education.
A New York city man known as a "masher" courted a Newark girl by letter. The plan to meet in Military Park, Newark, unfolded with her aunt and father’s involvement. The man, invited to the girl’s home, was presented to guests as a "fair specimen" of a New York masher. He plans to avoid Newark thereafter.
A country schoolmaster trains pupils to read pauses as tick marks for punctuation. When a visiting minister requests a chapter, a pupil omits the Gicks and reads scripture with tick cues, producing a comical misread that sends the minister and audience into laughter.
A humorous house rule sheet outlines temperate conduct and strict billing. It warns that guests owing bills will be charged, boarders must prepay, and meals are served by the cook. Sheets change infrequently, and valuables stay with the proprietor who bears no extra losses. Dreams priced by the dozen and stone vaults for snorers are noted with comic exaggeration.
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