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Newspaper
Friendship Weekly Register
Location
Friendship, New York, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1889
Page
8
A lyrical farm scene shows a farmer finishing work as twilight deepens. Cattle graze near the dairy, and women prepare evening dishes while a household hymn and blessing fill the air as the home welcomes night.
In a dramatic turn Stella Leonard encounters Cora Boyden while admiring a photograph of the motherly figure. Cora, shaken, contemplates a dangerous scheme to secure her future, considering removal of the child and a bold alliance with a wealthy associate as her next move.
My lady Cora, marching in a rough by-path, confronts a pursuing ruffian in a suburban scene. She offers money to buy his aid, revealing a desperate plan as her father, Dean Leonard, wanders nearby in a half crazed state.
A woman feigns illness to slip away from a dinner party. She dons a plain dress and veil, lights a candle, and uses a colorless liquid to aid a stealthy exit. She escapes through the hall and terrace into the night, leaving the scene behind as distant carriage wheels fade.
A verse from Joel Swartz voices a preference for temperance and condemns gilded saloons. It contrasts a decayed den in foul surroundings with a gaudy entrance warning “Beware of this entrance to Hell,” criticizing vice and degradation.
The article argues alcohol worsens pulmonary consumption and linked diseases. It cites Dr Oswald and Dr Kellogg noting tobacco and alcohol provoke consumption. warns against alcohol as preventive or curative. Edinburgh hospital records show 80 percent of chronic kidney disease tied to liquor. beer to Bright’s disease. alcohol also erodes mind and self control.
The article notes England’s budget shows reduced spending on intoxicants despite population growth and trade revival. Mr. Goschen cites a steady national temperance rise, with older voices approving while youth doubt the visible excess of alcohol. The London Lantern supports temperance gains resolving debate over prohibition’s defeat and related expenditures.
The piece notes a British Medical Temperance Association and its journal. It cites Dr N S Davis of Chicago who has not prescribed alcohol for internal use in forty years. Dr Dowkontt proposes an American Medical Temperance Association inviting Christian physicians to join and submit credentials and abstinence details.
In the wake of a late fire Seattle imposed temporary prohibition closing most oives and saloons. Thousands formed lemonade stands and temperance drinks gained favor as a new beverage called strawberry lemonade outsold beer. A petition by over a thousand citizens urged three months of saloon closures to aid rapid rebuilding.
A collection of odd notes on temperance and social issues. It mentions beer brewing in Wal Ruff Brewery Lawrence Kansas and contrasts drinking with punishment, health claims, taxation, education, and labor debates. The items include Dr Bombaugh on drink age limits Mrs Woodbridge on Cincinnati school lists and liquor taxation and various opinions from labor leaders and clubs.
A household recipe describes quartering ripe tomatoes and onion, frying in butter, simmering with water, salt, cayenne and mace to make a pulp. Eggs are beaten and folded into the sauce for a tomato omelet plated with extra tomato sauce on a hot dish.
A Washington Star recipe outlines making a large mustard and vegetable pickle. It lists green tomatoes cucumbers cabbage and onions with horseradish mustard seed pepper turmeric and cinnamon. The method includes salting soaking brine soaking in vinegar and spiced vinegar then mixing oil with mustard and adding to the batch.
A simple corn chowder recipe combines canned corn potatoes salt pork onion and crackers. Fry pork then onion in fat layer ingredients in a kettle add hot water simmer until potatoes are tender then thicken with flour mixed in milk add crackers boil once and serve as luncheon or soup with salad and dessert.
A vintage recipe attributed to a famed Southern household chef describes making a rich turkey pie. Simmer bones and skin to make gravy, finely chop meat, layer with bread crumbs, minced turkey, and butter, moisten with gravy or milk or oyster liquor, and bake under a crumb crust until bubbling and browned. The dish promises to surpass earlier preparations.
Practical instructions cover care for oil cloths and glasses with ammonia and wool grease removal. It advises white flannel jelly bags, washing new wool, boiling water for stains, carbolic acid as disinfectant, kerosene for wringer rollers, subcovers for tablecloths, proper storage of produce, corn salad notes, felon treatment with turpentine, stamping ink formulas, Javelle water recipe, ink stain removal on wood, and oil purification for guns plus a stove crevice cement method.
Dispatches from Troy and Amsterdam report widespread flood damage in New York State. Bridges washed away along the Schoharie and Mohawk valleys, Johnstown and Fonda suffer electrical and rail losses, with boats and mills swept away and numerous deaths feared as rain continues.
A second Johnstown flood narrative describes new dam failures and a destructive rush of waters. The Cayadutta valley is inundated, eighty or more people perish or are missing, mills and bridges are swept away, and widespread property losses reach into the hundreds of thousands.
English syndicate representatives in Chicago plan to acquire Gas Trust plants and form a $29 million company to deliver gas nationwide at five and a half vents per LAN fee. If local capital backs the plan, work would start quickly behind English financiers amid concerns of life and property obstruction.
Stocking season yields 13.49 million aquatic fry across New York lakes and the Hudson. G W Terwilliger firm in Newburg seeks creditor relief as assets stay unlisted and workers face unpaid wages. Rural Grove reports oil creek sightings with plans to drill to the source. Heat at state camp injures many. a four year old dies from balladonna pills. Chautauqua Assembly opens as finances show a surplus. A Buffalo man dies in a jail cell. a drowning incident occurs near Conklinville. A barge accident near Barrytown kills two women. a flagman dies crossing a railroad. The 1859 Buffalo directory notes population rise and the University and emigration posts shift. Pension awards begin for National Guard members. Wreck on the NYS&W at Butler causes damage. Schenectady broom factory destroyed.
A collage of notes on notable people and opinions from varied spheres. Mentions include Parsipent Hanitsus loving fish, Queen Victoria’s long reign, Morssomer the French painter’s marriage, Julian Hawthorne's prolific output, Governor Foraxne of Ohio, the Prince of Wales as a cattle breeder, General Boulanger’s U.S. visit plans, Hassan the magician’s insurance, Mrs Warrvey, and connections to George Francis Train. Also references taxes, travel, marriages, and business figures like Chauncey Depew. A quirky tale about a donkey, a fast man named Woodspeed, and satire on fashion through Prince Albert coats. The piece closes with a dubious advertising claim about insect-killing cards.
A granite monument at the Roscoe Conkling grave in Forrest Hill Utica is completed. It stands beside the Horatio Seymour monument and features polished granite with inscribed panels noting Roscoe Conkling 1820 1888. The nine foot tall sculpture weighs about twenty tons and reflects the man’s character.
A rich iron ore bed has been located on the Oscar Satterlee farm along the Neversink river twelve miles from the Ulster and Delaware line at Big Indian. The vein lies twenty feet below the surface and could reach at least twenty feet thick, prompting talk of a potential mine and a branch railroad to Kingston for smelting with local coal and limestone. Experts deem the ore a very superior grade.
Mrs. Tyler widow of President John Tyler died suddenly in Richmond Virginia after a brief illness. She visited her son Lyon G Tyler at William and Mary College in Virginia and wished to see another son Gardiner G Tyler in Charles City County before falling ill. She was about seventy, Catholic, and survived by four children including Lyon G Tyler president of William and Mary and Gardiner G Tyler of Washington and another son Mrs William Ells of Montgomery County Virginia.
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