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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1893
Page
2
A short lyric reflecting winter reveries and delicate imagery. The speaker longs for the glow of hopeful memories to ease the cold midwinter mood and savor the fleeting beauty of nature.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat retold tale describes a Confederate hospital in Columbus and a dear old lady who nurses a wounded Yankee. She feeds him pumpkin pie at the doctor’s grim warning, then watches him die with relief and guilt intertwined.
The plant of Calvary or Calvary clover is described as a common trefoil with three leaflets each bearing a crimson center, resembling drops of blood. It allegedly sprang along Pilate’s path to the cross with a yellow flower like the crown of thorns, a legend noted by the St. Louis Republic.
A wedding in St Petersburg joined Eugenie Senienovkaia, daughter of the Semenovsky regiment, to Lieutenant Alexander Redansky of the Eighty-sixth Infantry. The bride, a foundling raised by the regiment, received a princely dowry from her military guardians and godparents included the surgeon and Princess Eugenie of Oldenburg.
The piece notes that ambassadors abroad might adopt a court costume but doubts approval. It cites Secretary of State Marcy’s 1853 requirement for simple citizen dress for ministers, contrasting with earlier plain uniforms. It recounts Buchanan’s refusal to wear court dress, preferring his everyday black coat and white waistcoat.
Eccentric navigator Bosman sails from Valparaiso toward Chicago in a 22 foot boat. He travels to Panama then rail to Colon and intends to sail via the St Lawrence, expecting Chicago arrival around mid voyage, despite easier river routes.
Captain William Roberts of the missing White Star steamer Naronic formerly commanded the Adriatic. He was moved to the freighter after refusing to tow the City of Paris into Queenstown when she was damaged about 350 miles from shore.
A poem by Ella Dietz Clymer discusses reconciliation and pain. The piece is followed by an exploration of the Peter Pence custom, tracing its medieval origins to Rome and various early advocates, noting evolving copper to silver coin tributes and eventual papal support.
Squire Bond, a Worcester county storekeeper and Springfield figure, sold rum in the early 1800s. A delinquent customer drained his jug and left without paying, so Bond poured out the liquor and learned the jug contained water, not rum, exposing the debtor’s trust abuse.
The New York Tribune quotes a witty remark from a young boy noting that women are first in line, pondering why God made Adam first and why women seem favored in life, reflecting a playful view of gender roles.
A reflection on the overburdened woman who must earn money, run a household, nurse, sew, manage servants, and oversee a bustling establishment. Harper’s Bazar notes women face excessive duties that exceed one pair of hands, prompting pity.
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