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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1893
Page
2
James Whitcomb Riley paints a rustic harvest scene with humor and nostalgia. A speaker praises the bountiful yield and the reaper at work among stubble fields as autumn abundance unfolds.
Miss Rose Newell arrives at the ranch stirring rivalries among Anson Ab and Deacon Jim. Jim rescues her from a stampede, earns her gratitude, and the rumor spreads that he will marry her, becoming half owner of the ranch.
A Contemporary Review excerpt notes slavery endures in practice in Siam despite official abolition. It describes masters arresting and punishing slaves without trial, including a slave chained in a yard pillory while another is beaten with a bamboo rod to extract confessions.
A New Jersey clergyman received a two cent toll ticket as a marriage fee in a monogrammed envelope. Another item wrapped in paper was exchanged for a watermelon after a grocer, who had not opened it, bought it for the wedding. Inside was an eight cent silver coin. A groom tossed old gloves to the minister’s wife, who later discovered a $5 bill in each finger of the ten gloves.
The navy issues an order keeping iron and steel hulls white above the load water line with white bulwarks inside and a light straw color for masts booms and smokestacks. A matching slab will be prepared at New York navy yard for issue to yards stations and vessels in commission. Turpin’s melviite electric gun claims 25000 projectiles in five minutes with several mile range drawing interest from France and Britain.
A Philadelphia Ledger note claims the white of an egg can hasten burn and scald healing by forming a varnish that excludes air and prevents inflammation. The item also reports the marriage of Mr Veal and Miss Ham in England, noted with newspaper humor.
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