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Newspaper
Hamilton Examiner
Location
Hamilton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1874
Page
2
A traveler details the tangled English marriage process for Catholics, involving church cries, long waits, and consent hurdles. The narrator explains officers, registrars, and officials demanding multiple papers, signatures, and promises to keep the faith, amid wartime fatigue and social prejudice.
The article outlines two scandals of clandestine marriages where parental disapproval leads to severe consequences. A clerk disowned for marrying a merchant’s daughter loses his job, and a ship captain’s son-in-law faces job loss and mistreatment culminating in tragedy. An editorial note mocks a woman’s grocery store with witty color imagery.
A Wisconsin farmer forgets his wife during a trip to town. After leaving his wife at a dry woods store he returns home alone and, while chatting with a cow, a press board falls on his knees. The cow kicks him near the vest pocket as the wife reappears and asks if he will forget her again, to which he replies Not much.
A miscellany including Goop Advice on guarding speech and heart, notes on Grange relations with Dominion Grange, and ethics of selling, theft, and fraud. It also surveys Angora goat farming in Australia, dyeing recipes, Dunkers history, and a collage of typographic anecdotes and historical misprints.
A historical note describes July 1572 balloon ascent by Glaisher and Coxwell reaching 35 000 feet with vital signs recorded. It cites pulse rates, blue lips, breathlessness, and loss of consciousness, plus the ascent to 29 600 feet before rescue by dental valve operation. It compares Alpine climbers and monks at high altitudes and mentions Hanle Tibet and the Ibi Gamin expeditions with European nights at 21 600 feet.
A paternalistic note urges mothers to guide their sons away from restless impulses and risky crowds. It argues youth seek excitement through varied desires and damper friends, suggesting at-home activities and wholesome pastimes to curb vice. It warns mothers their influence rivals public and peer pressures in shaping boyhood into healthy manhood.
A vivid, almost dreamlike description of a coastal marsh scene with a shelf of oiled objects and hanging Spanish moss. A striking life like sal display is noted as the observer imagines the swamp habitat and a poised figure resembling a native marsh resident.
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