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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1888
Page
1
A brief note discusses U S government spending on postal worker salaries surpassing other nations and estimates daily world exchange at 11 64 000 000 000. It also notes German marriage rules allow parental permission until age twenty five with appeals to authorities if refused.
The German Secretary and Postmaster General Dr W Mephan states that in March 1886 about 34,000 newspapers circulated worldwide. They produced roughly 692 million copies annually with Europe accounting for 19,009 papers, North America 12,000, and smaller numbers in South America Asia and the remaining regions.
Dr. Charles L. Dana argues the value of adult life to the State at 750 and its annual productive power at 95, estimating vast national losses from sickness and death while other items discuss fruit varieties, British Burma forces, and local scientific quips with humorous anecdotes.
A nostalgic Thanksgiving tribute poem by Margaret Sangster in Demorest's reflects on a small house by the road. It contrasts childhood warmth with present loneliness, praising family bonds and duty. Rex and Archie are named among returning loved ones, linking rural home to national gratitude and enduring faith.
A Connecticut woman recalls a hopeful Thanksgiving ruined by the Neptune disaster loss of her fiancé Harry Carlton, years of hardship, a move to New York, and a later rescue that reunites them. The tale shifts to a society page on fashion and women’s work with tips, trends, and notable names, including Miss Ledhbar Rhodes and Miss Cora Smith.
Descriptions from Melbourne Argus detail Oaba women bearing blue throat patterns like scarves carved with shark tooths, while others display skin blisters forming flower and fern motifs or fish and lizard designs. The process is cited as painful, involving cutting skin and filling with earth and hot ashes to grow into the artwork. The New York Sun notes it was the photographer’s first time capturing a detached head.
An eyewitness account describes Porter’s twenty mortar boats shelling Fort Jackson and Fort St Philip near New Orleans. Mortars fired about every seven to eight minutes, with crews enduring deafening noise, shifting decks, and heavy damage. A shell penetrated the schooner’s deck and magazine, causing flooding and injuries. the bombardment continued into daylight the next day with intense enemy fire and great destruction to surrounding trees and terrain.
On a Southern rice plantation Hugh N. Starrs describes embryo stalks forming as germ roots emerge, then advises immediate flooding to push growth. He notes water depth, slack-water gauge practice, and the complex, staged labor across hundreds of acres with drills, banks, and overseers guiding processes amid weather and volunteer rice.
Latest ministerial returns show chestnut cultivation in fifty six of Italy's provinces across 1818 communes. Liguria leads cultivation while Sardinia trails. Annual fresh chestnut production totals 51,302 tons with exports to France Austria Egypt Switzerland and South America and imports from those same countries.
A stitched set of quotes and witticisms from various era papers. Jesters mock manners politics and misers with quips about pickpockets haircuts and embezzlement. The collection blends humor from the Picayune Boston Courier Philadelphia Call and other publications with light moral observations.
The article explains chicory as a European native now naturalized in the United States. It details the plant’s growth, root preparation, and typical use as a coffee substitute, noting that it is often adulterated and sold as coffee, sometimes legally labeled, but frequently without sanction.
The latest French army strength from Avant la Bataille reports eighteen corps d armee with 40 infantry battalions, 158 cavalry squadrons, and 324 batteries. Total effective force lists officers 14,768. men 671,202. horses 200,092. guns 1,044. carriages 94,754.
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