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Newspaper
Evening Observer
Location
Dunkirk, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1883
Page
3
The Evening Observer cites rising marriage liberty as reshaping gender norms and domestic life. It argues wives gain social freedom while daughters imitate, and husbands and wives pursue independent paths, eroding conjugal fidelity amid expanded divorce courts, with lower classes driving the trend according to a London World summary.
A stern broadside argues about women’s dress and men’s fashions from corsets to high heels. It satirizes both sexes for harsh criticism while calling for compromise on attire and the ritual of grooming. The piece questions tradition and urges balanced nearer mutual understanding.
A Broadway car conductor scatters bogus twenty five cent pieces to study who will pick them up. A banker and a famed actor both fail and miss the coins, hinting at human frailty as the conductor muses on shadows and fate.
Narrator notes the sunrises in America and Europe share the same splendor yet differ in color and mood. He recalls standing by a Pennsylvania railroad, observing dawn’s golds and scarlets in the old country, while America shows purple and smoky oranges. The illusion feels deeply rooted, aided by eyesight, in Longfellow’s Magazine.
Experiments by Professor Doremus showed gas readily passes through brown sandstone. A 12 by 15 inch block with a few inches thickness had a pipe clamped to it and connected to gas pipes, with varnish on the rest. A second pipe allowed escape and a lighted paper nearby caused a flame, proving gas traversed the stone.
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