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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1894
Page
6
An odd fragment from the New York Ledger presents a lurid chant by a Romanian speaker. The verse depicts celestial imagery and a curse on a peasant’s love, ending with a fatal warning. The fragment hints at dramatic passion and superstition within a literary column.
Mrs Botkine plans a bath to distract her husband from science talk. She fills the bathroom with bacteriology books and posters to please his guest Mr Smith. A comic sequence ends with the scientist arriving, revealing the guest as a harmless acquaintance and exposing the plan.
All the Year Round contrasts slang from street life with that heard in fashionable drawing rooms. It cites Lady Gwendolen Vere de Vere and Lord Adolphus Grandseignenor as examples of polished talk that hides vulgarity through tone and irony.
A Lansdowne resident, described as super sensitive, refused a doctor when sick. He explained, in explanation of his reluctance, that it had been so long since he was ill he was ashamed to face a physician.
A reflective essay on how newspapers wield literature and editorial content like cookery to please readers. It argues balance matters and excess or deficiency in news and prose can alienate audiences, prompting demands for tailored writings.
A Nietown Pa woman Mrs dM Bender in poor health with womb and kidney troubles finds relief using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims the remedy cures many female weaknesses and urges others to try it. It highlights symptoms like backache headaches and dropsy and notes the druggist carries the product.
A local store promotes a large stock of watches and clocks at cost plus hardware paints oils putty glass wallpaper and paper hangers supplies. Sporting goods bicycles bicycle repair garden tools seeds 5 and 10 cent items kitchen and woodenware and many other goods, all offered at very low prices. Call and examine.
London Letter notes the Queen rebukes claims that Iles granddaughter is ill. The Westminster Gazette taunts court silence on royal ailments while suggesting Princess Alix has long suffered health issues and undergone cures at Badnauheim Schwalbach and other places. Skepticism grows until an official statement clarifies the condition.
A Washington era piece describes toucans with oversized beaks seven inches long and two inches wide, their colorful plumage, social behavior, and habitat in South American forests. It notes their fruit diet, nesting, and how their huge bills deter predators in demonstrations of natural history.
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