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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1894
Page
6
A poetic verse describes a quiet winter scene at the mill with a still lane and smoke from chimneys. The miller and his maid are present as time slows, while distant gossip fades and a child reads by a warm hearth. Susan H Swett attributed.
Gilbert de Saumur returns to Paris after a decade in America with little fortune left. He reunites with Rouval, relives old habits at a club, and loses heavily at cards. Desperate, he offers a banker’s check to cover his losses, decides to quit gambling, and leaves Paris for good.
The New York Herald notes sundials carried famous proverbs before clocks. Phrases like Make hay while the sun shines and All things do wax and wane appeared on dials, including the St Pauls cross dial proclaiming I number none but sunny hours.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes more women than men in Swedish telegraph offices and that single women enter all postoffice departments except letter carriers. Women earn equal salaries to men in Sweden and Norway, may become station masters in Denmark, and serve as shorthand writers in parliament. They also hold public offices in Finland and Iceland on liberal terms.
Comic brief notes areshadowed by Chicago Record mock warning with two women discussing a fortune that spoils sunshine and shopping anxieties. The banter contrasts Mrs Knowes Poor with Mrs Youngwife and Mrs Guesse.
A three man committee armed with shotguns and a revolver hides in a pumphouse at a water station to confront a supposed spook. A man in a white painted football and sheet approaches the station and is captured after a chase, later identified as George Bartley. He escapes, shots are fired, and the tale ends with the committee displaying a sheet and the white football as proof.
Boston widow Mary Hemingway leaves a net estate of about 15 million dollars. Her executors must apply income for up to 15 years to education in Boston, Old South Meeting House projects, and American archaeology. A Massachusetts farm, the Lowry farm, goes to the Hampton Institute founded by General Arm strong.
The czar tells the police minister that only one matter stands out. A man who threw a bomb at the czar and damaged a window nearby seeks release and vows reform. He even hopes to travel to America to become a baseball player.
British association explorers report 1000 marine species collected around the Isle of Man yield 224 never before found in the region 38 new to British waters and 17 entirely new to science. The note wonders how many volumes would hold undiscovered ocean inhabitants.
A renowned English author incapacitated by a neighbor who practiced Handel’s Messiah next door. He refused to send a message, then saw in a daily paper that steam whistles could fit kettle spouts. He fitted one to a kettle, lit the fire, and after the whistle sounded he left. The kettle overflowed but was easily soldered, and the neighbor took the hint.
In Nashe's 1594 Terrors of the Night the Lake Wetter of Sweden is described as bottomless with bizarre traits. The passage notes freezing air above, muffled people, deafening roars, and a sulfurous smoke issuing from its center like Mont Gibell, supposedly poisoning the surrounding country.
Dialogue from the Indianapolis Journal notes Mrs Watts appearing in a new gown as Mrs Wickwire belatedly approves the outfit. The exchange highlights fashion tastes in a polite social scene.
A sermon on Genesis xiv 1 15 through Joseph’s recognition by his brothers, his forgiveness, and the divine plan behind their trials. It links Joseph’s tears and reconciliation to Jesus as deliverer, urging belief in God’s guiding hand and reminding readers of salvation by grace through Christ.
Winding south east across the Utah desert the route follows Grand River into Unaweep Puni weep and Escalante then along Mesa Verde into Gunnison Gorge past Chippeta falls the Black canyon and the Granite Sugar Loaf Gurrecanti Needle.
excursionists trek Bear creek and ascend to a 275 foot bridge near Sultan peak. they descend into the sublime Animas canyon along the Lost Souls river, carving 1500 foot precipices in granite as evidence of creation and divine wisdom.
The list catalogs twenty photographs including Moyea falls Shoshone falls the ferry at the falls Natural bridge at Shoshone Unaweep canon Toadstool rock Box canon falls Eagle rock at Shoshone falls Profile rock mouth of Grand river canon Leaning Tower cascade at Ouray trail along the breast of San Juan mountain Twin falls Mount Abram Jaws of Death Mount Ouray prehistoric excavations in Mancos canyon the descent of Marshall pass.
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