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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1889
Page
1
A visitor to Havana reports he did not find the famed Cuban women. He notes their eyes are large and dark but their complexions are hidden under heavy powder. He observes few handsome older ladies and suggests Cuban beauty does not endure.
The United States Mint in Philadelphia has secured a counterfeit $2.50 gold piece from 1852 sought for years to complete its cabinet. It contains only twenty seven cents worth of gold yet weighs and measures like the genuine coin except the real article is slightly thinner at the center and the ring matches true metal.
Dr N B Richardson warns that drinking before bed prevents the heart from resting. He explains alcohol raises heart strokes by about 15,000, leaving the wearer unfit for the next day's work until more wine is consumed.
George W. Clay had his arm amputated and buried in a box. He later claimed his fingers cramped and sand stuck between them. After the box was opened the fingers were found cramped with sand, and reburial followed. He reported painful then relief sensations.
A Boston Journal of Man writer argues that human longevity could reach 140 years, beyond the Scriptural three score and ten. He cites Italian imperial census figures and more Americans who have crossed the century mark as support for lengthening the expected lifespan.
The Boston Courier discusses the idea of publishing a tabulated list of words and phrases allowed or restricted by libel law. It argues such a guide would ease legal doubt, curb harmful speech, and reduce the risk of corrosive deeds by channeling anger through permissible language.
General Boulanger strikes back as Bismarck pressures Alsace and Lorraine by banning German exclusionary societies and mandating German in public schools. A French army order bars officers from employing German staff after a Prussian officer’s wife becomes a governess to General Davonet’s children. The critic notes Germany’s indignation over maps showing Alsace and Lorraine as French.
The excerpt urges boys and girls to sow good seeds now as seeds will grow later. It emphasizes natural consequences of actions through imagery of dew rain cloudy days and sunshine. It frames moral behavior as influencing future outcomes for youth.
Polly Darrow helps a weary stranger in a storm and later finds him again in New York as Tom Ellis Atherton. He reforms, courts Polly, and she becomes Polly Atherton as they marry with approval from his mother.
A New York Star story recounts how Henry Ward Beecher kept vitality by daily exercise. While hiking near Peekskill a reporter saw Beecher move stones in repeated trots to stay active, noting he collected stone piles as prompts to write.
The article lists seven natural sandstone bridges in the United States, detailing locations in Alabama Kentucky California and specific sizes. It notes a Virginian benchmark and highlights the seven other bridges with spans ranging from seventy to three hundred feet and heights up to one hundred thirty feet. It also mentions twin bridges on Lost River in Siskiyou County and two near Coyote Creek in Tuolumne County. A short tip on ants suggests scrubbing shelves with sarbolic soap and sprinkling red paper in crevices.
Instruction from American Agriculturist describes tying the cow by the head with a halter and passing cords to the hind feet. When the cow kicks, pull the cords to jerk the feet to the jaw and topple her, repeating until she stops kicking.
The article argues apples are cheaper animal feed than roots and outlines preferred varieties for cows swine and seasons. It recommends Sweet Bough for dairy cattle and lists summer Autumn and winter types including Twenty-ounce Pippin Gravenstein Fall Pippin Porter Tallman's Sweet Seek-no-further Baldwin Spy and Spitzenberger. It urges prompt tree purchase and planting before the next month.
Practical tips on preventing damp shelters and disease in pigs and fowls, manure use for onions, seeds, weather effects, wagon maintenance, oats top dressing, colt growth, green feeding, and winter feeding rhythms. Highlights on fowl feathering as hardy indicators and English versus American winter feeding patterns.
The column describes methods to repair whitewashed walls by washing with vinegar or saleratus water and renewing old silk using potato water and pressing. It also includes recipes for Cornmeal Muffins and Lemon Pudding with ingredients and steps for preparation.
Directions describe a lemon pudding with puff pastry and a cheese and egg salad. It instructs lining a dish with puff paste, baking the pudding quickly for about half an hour, serving hot, and preparing a cheese and egg filling from hard boiled yolks, pepper, salt, melted butter, and grated cheese. Lettuce leaves support the filled cups, with a dressing passed to guests.
A Saratoga correspondent recalls Henry Ward Beecher’s winter lecture at the Town Hall where a blizzard night reduced attendance and left a local organizer financially strained after paying only part of the $250 fee. Beecher quipped on a squeaking door hinge as a booted attendee caused distraction, later noting the hinge has been oiled since.
J. T. Hill of Red Fork Indian Territory, a veteran cattle shipper, tells St. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter of the heel fly. He says the pest bites cattle in the leg or heel, deposits eggs under the skin, drives herds into frenzy, and forces them toward muddy water for relief. He notes rapid flesh loss and no known remedy.
A wealthy gentleman signs a blank slip, a neighbor adds a note like a promissory instrument, later cashes it as a joke. The signer suspects nothing until the jokers death and executors sue to recover the amount. Also notes Beecher as Peeks Kill home keeper and his plan to plant many trees to share cherries with birds.
A Dakota woman lacking hens or cows sculpts a fur cloak by trapping minks and tanning hides. She ships the finished cloak to St Paul, refuses $125 offer, and keeps it. The piece follows a broader note on fashion and a Cosmopolitan essay about the Beylerby Palace and Empress Eugenie.
Wide gold bracelets return as a revived style. French hose appear in black and white checks. Floral ornament ribbons color house and table décor. Hair rises high with many adopting a small back knot. Lightweight spring suits use cheviots Angora fabrics in lines checks and stripes. White wools show gay figures and fine lines in browns and blues with picot velvet trimming. Coronets accent new Spring bonnets in beaded or beflowered forms. Velvet loops in moss green trim hats lined with green satin and pale hops and pink roses. Jackets vary from double to single breasted with horn or pearl buttons. Bonnet crowns combine silk lace beads and straw or beaded brims. Handkerchief crowns with pointed corners appear. Spring wraps feature dolman coats short jackets and Russian hoods with fringes and tassels.
Agencies report the Interior Department has purchased most of the reservation spanning the northern half of Montana from Indian tribes. More than 17.5 million acres will be opened for public settlement, with the land described as very desirable and expected to be rapidly occupied.
No readable entities or events present. The fragment states poverty as lack of many needs and desires.
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