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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1897
Page
6
A dramatic onstage fight between two actors, one insisting on realism, ends with both men discharging after a chaotic performance. The clash delights some galleries while others call it fake, and the manager cancels the scene along with the actors’ employment.
A veteran safe opener of forty years explains the craft requires instinctive knowledge of all lock types and precise diagnosis of each obstacle. He recalls a detective’s offer to steal $100000 from a supposedly impregnable safe, a tempting lure that he refused to join.
Visitors in the navy yard may spot sailors using hand sewing machines on deck. The heavy base devices are owned by the user or sailmakers, with four to twelve machines aboard large warships like the Indiana and Detroit. Commanding officers must grant permission to bring one, and most crews rely less on self made outfits than in the past.
In Shakespeare era piece Master Skylark by John Bennett, Gaston Carew lies in Newgate after killing a companion at cards. Nick Atwood visits the cell as carew faces execution, with grim prison details and a grim farewell as the condemned await Tyburn.
An antique letter from Eberneezer Y. Jenson of Hamilton Kansas asks a bicycle company about hollow tire innards called injun robber tires. He describes his iron wheeled bike, questions pricing to upgrade, assembly steps, and whether hollowization is cheaper empty. He also asks about a wind stuffing gadget and where to begin.
A dialogue from the Chicago Tribune on memory and looking through advertising columns to recall something to bring home. The exchange centers on a person named Maria and a prompt to check the paper’s ads for a specific item tonight.
Recent statistics show the English citizen faces a heavy gas bill after food rent clothing and drink. England pays 100 million dollars annually to gas companies and those firms earn an estimated 26 million dollars in profit each year.
Poetic meditation by Camilla Crossland in Chambers Journal on how past actions shape future outcomes. The speaker links yesterday’s thrall to tomorrow’s purposes, noting iron persistence of time and the echoes of good and ill. Small incidents may alter destiny, guiding life toward an eventual sea.
A prosperous but wasteful farmer on the Russell Cave Pike sought a loan of 2000 from the Northern bank. After a bank director overheard his plan, he told the borrower to drive his own wagon first and prove self-reliance. The bank approved, ending his status as a perpetual borrower.
The late Daniel Green leaf Thompson of this city had his books published in England not from patriotism but because serious works found a better market there. Like General Walker, he was better known as an author in England than at home, belonging to the individualist school. Americans are individualistic yet rarely express individualistic social or economic theories in controversial literature.
A Brooklyn Life quotation contrasts past and present church attendance noting the shift from congregants to an audience. It ponders how modern gatherings resemble performances rather than devout assembly.
Rivalto the monk preached in Florence in 1805 that spectacles began in 1285. The sermon links eye wear history to practical duties and moral instruction.
In a Cleveland Leader vignette, Mr Dalrymple urges Georgiana to ignore social judgment and act independently. She concedes the point but frets about vanity, while he rushes to the office after forgetting his necktie, fearing mockery from colleagues.
Rep John S Rhea recalls a Kentucky appellate judge who set aside a jury verdict against a poor woman caught stealing a bit of bacon to feed her four children. Grace proclaimed that it would take thirteen men to convict an hungry offender in such cases and discharged the defendant.
The New York Sun notes that modern women still favor crosses as jewelry. Antique styled pieces in Roman gold with black enamel and precious stones resemble grandmothers’ pins, hair ornaments, or lockets, regarded as a mark of aristocracy and sought after by fashioning women.
The late William $8. Groesbeck of Cincinnati defended President Andrew Johnson and never again took a law case. He crafted his main points while bedbound, spoke four and a half hours extempore, and saw Johnson acquitted on the key vote. He retired to a quiet life after Elmhurst, a riverview house built in 1872.
A Boston Transcript remark notes Fenderson says many people, if aware of their ignorance, would still know far more than they do not know. The quote frames humility and awareness as a curb to overconfidence.
A concise aphorism attributed to Benjamin Franklin notes that those who refuse advice cannot be helped. It emphasizes the value of counsel and receptiveness to guidance.
A downtown employer seeks an office boy and tests applicants for cigarette use. Chimmy, a redheaded youth, soaks his fingers in turpentine to remove staining and lands the job after convincingly denying smoking, while others fail with tobacco marks or alibis.
An eccentric note on glass smoking features a speaker skeptical of Dooley’s claim. The dialogue frames a comic misunderstanding about pipe drawing and visions of sun spirals, reflecting playful Victorian slang and character humor.
A passage contrasts Shakespeare's line native and to the manner born with the common belief that to the manor born is an American innovation. Editors generally reject reading the latter as valid, noting no grounding for such claim.
A Punch cartoon mocks a crowded scene with a doubtful character and a comic misfortune as a man struggles to free a coin from a cave pocket, exaggerating the moment for humor.
An elderly Detroit man recalls a long marriage and a flirtation prank among telegraph operators. He describes filling in for a friend to court a woman operator, then learning the lover was caught by fate and choosing to pursue the affair himself. The tale ends with humor about replacement and lasting happiness.
A report recalls the killing of Charles II the elephant near Liverpool after three hours of poisoning using aconite, arsenic, and prussic acid, with two Liverpool physicians as executioners and one collapsing from fumes. The piece also notes a New York Tribune item urging women to seek homestead land in the West with an $18 filing fee and five to seven years to final proof.
Zion's Herald calls for mothers and daughters to unite in a league to defend marriage against corrupting influences in literature. It urges societal order, family protection, and public welfare over personal interests, urging lovers of their kind to rally to defend marriage.
A historical assessment calls Tamerlane the bloodiest conqueror, citing estimates that nearly four million people perished in his wars.
The city and the tower proposed by the sons of Noah are cited as the earliest recorded fortifications. The tower is identified as a citadel, indicating defensive purpose and historic significance.
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