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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1895
Page
2
The readable lines show shattered imagery of travel and struggle at sea with phrases like crossed and haven. The text appears as a broken poetic fragment with garbled names and directions. No clear人物, place, or event is recoverable.
A narrator recounts meeting Patricia Holt in Eastbourne with her mother, developing attraction, and an evolving relationship framed by a shared book and a fated proposal that never occurs. He confronts the irony of loving through fiction while his real feelings remain unspoken.
Historical note recalls a time when musicians were scarce and pressed into service. Henry VIII issued warrants to impress children with good voices for cathedral choirs, and Elizabeth I carried out similar practices, taking eligible children from their parents without compensation.
The piece traces the corset from its ancient roots with the Greek poet Cinesias who wore a wooden corset, ridiculed by Aristophanes, to later adoption by Antonius Pius and Roman women. It notes the evolution from waist confinement to full bust corset, crediting Catherine de Medici as the first woman to wear the bust corset in France.
Quotation notes that preachers and letter carriers share a test in judging by delivery. Glanders responds to Guimmaey on what that test is, highlighting the need for effective communication and timely messages.
Willie Kaufmann, at 2 1 2 years old and under 25 pounds, is pitched as the world champion of trick riding. He has ridden a bicycle for six months and challenges all comers at 24 ½ years, defended by his father N. E. Kaufmann, a noted cyclist whose medals are shown. The Hamburg photo accompanies this New York World note.
The 12 year old Archduchess Elizabeth, daughter of Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria, stayed at Schloss Murzsteg and asked to play with local children. Initially shy, the imperial grandchild drew portraits of the kids, later shared them with Kaiser Franz Joseph who praised her but wondered at their wide open mouths. Elizabeth explained the children stayed still only when sweets were promised. The emperor laughed at the explanation.
The New York Times presents a collection of palindromes including Anna, civic, level, madam, noon, rotor, radar, sees, redder, reviver, and others. The set features words spanning simple to compound forms and demonstrates forward and backward spelling symmetry.
A Troy Times note recalls a Union preacher at a Deeryville ceremony naming four children after Civil War figures. Simon Bolivar Buckner, Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard, Alpert Sidney Johnson, and Mary Stonewall Jackson Lee drew smiles and roars from the crowd as the service proceeded.
The Vancouver World reports on Great Shuswap and Adams lakes with depths from 58 to 74 feet in the Shuswaps and 1,100 to 1,900 feet in Adams lake. A 1,113 foot reading near Seymour Arm was thwarted by submarine currents, prompting plans for a second expedition. Dr. Dawson notes regional mountain lake beds may lie well below sea level.
In Swiss and German homes bread stays fresh with a three to four week shelf life. Bake infrequently and store loaves by packing them in a flour dusted sack with touching crusts and spacing, then hang the tied sack in an airy spot. The day before use, brush off flour and set the loaf in a cellar overnight.
In Chicago the Excelsior Building at Canal and Jackson and an eight story brick block on South Canal were wiped out by a blaze. Nineteen manufacturing plants were lost with a total damage of at least 620000. Hundreds of girls escaped with only fright and minor injuries as Chief Sweeney called for extra engines after a dust explosion started the fire.
The fragment echoes ancient lamentation, asking who endures wounds and grief with cause and grounding its tone in mournful inquiry rather than triumph or comfort.
The young king Alfonso challenged a bishop to a game of billiards during a papal visit and won. He recently sent his first self written letter to the pope but was upset his mother had to fix his spelling.
In New York on November 22 the jury found David F. Hannigan not guilty by reason of insanity after he shot Solomon H. Mann, the seducer of his sister. The prisoner’s father William Hannigan died during the verdict wait, at about 11 15 p m, before news reached the family.
A customer waits an hour for two pounds of liver as the butcher says three or four customers are ahead. A San Francisco Chronicle wryly notes domestic jests about bishops who sew and knit, and a French superstition links a white pigeon alighting on a chimney to a speedy house death.
Miss Margaret B. Harvey author of The National Flower presents a unique exhibit in the Pennsylvania department of the Women’s Building at the Atlanta exposition. A pictorial oil painting in a gilt frame accompanies a decorated booklet detailing the national flower agitation history.
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