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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1888
Page
1
The Indians of the Assiniboine reserve carried off the first prizes for wheat, barley, turnips, potatoes and seed onions at an agricultural show in Regina Northwest Territory.
A Sunday census reports 466000 morning and 410000 evening churchgoers in London. St Pauls Cathedral records 3403 in the evening. Spurgeon’s church leads dissenting bodies with 4519 morning and 6000 evening attendees. Jonathan Bass of Cambria NY is described as a solid man despite long postural illness.
A German doctor reports on habits of long-lived people and finds most over eighty stay up late and rise late. He claims early rising drains energy and shortens life, while the supposed healthful hours may cause lassitude or be unsuitable for some constitutions. He jokes that another doctor will be labeled unhealthy to seek medical advice.
Maggie Beadling, seventeen, of Banksville Allegheny County, has been in a trance for two years except three lucid intervals after a fall in August 1884. She is permanently paralyzed, recalls living names inconsistently, and sings unfamiliar hymns believed by family to be songs of angels heard in trance.
A metropolitan paper endorses Henry Bergh's anti cruelty effort in halting tail docking. It notes a tailless look is unattractive and argues owners should be conscripted during fly season if docking continues. An elderly rider and his bob tailed horse are cited as a telling, harmonious counterexample in the Park.
The Chicago News recalls a 1574 St Paul murder trial where jurors drank tea laced with whisky at the American House. A juror recruited tea for his fellow jurors, leaving them drunk and delaying verdicts. The episode supports Dr. Kellogg's claim that tea can cause intoxication.
A lyrical scene frames October harvest as thrashers work from dawn to dusk. The machine’s roar, dust, and bustle wake farm life, while workers, cattle, and lanterns fill the rural dawn with motion and energy. Jean Blow's verse in Tater Ocean celebrates abundance and hope.
At a quiet summer hotel a young man Jack Turner works days on a fir pillow for a distant beloved while a older woman narrator watches. He hides a romance with Muriel Fales as a consumptive catallak of a daughter recovers after the pillow gifts, ending with a confession of engagement to Muriel.
A Naval Hero recounts Lieutenant Judd’s grim captivity during the burning of Colon. Judd signed an arms delivery promise to Preston under threat, was freed, but later returned ashore to face capture again. Colonel Ailea and government troops arrived, Judd fled, and Kane’s forces attacked. Judd’s resolve is praised as chivalric under duress.
A Kingston report describes a dyspeptic man who inhaled smoke from a shod horse hoof to stimulate hunger. The blacksmith says the fumes act as the best appetite stimulant, with patrons visiting daily to sniff the smoke and eat more. He jokes about bottling the remedy and notes his own hunger rises with the scent.
A witty exchange where a bold suitor asks for a kiss and a coquettish girl replies that such requests should be denied. She advises denial as safest until the suitor has proved himself with effort. The quip closes with playful counsel on romance.
A collection of curious notes spans topics from a petrified rosebud in Alabama to Bartholdi’s statue model and a Pacific gold plover’s long flight. It cites Rhode Island’s 1776 act for independence, Dick Turpin’s London address, and hidden wall spaces. It ends with hair and silk worm thread measurements and pigment counts.
A muddy clay pit three miles from Sharon Georgia is credited with freeing users from rheumatism. Hillman and others report relief after applying the waxy clay, drawing crowds of curious visitors, including a prominent Warren County woman and a General Heard family servant who walked away cured. Report cites electricity theory for the cures.
In this letter Sé. Nicholas argues that foreign influence dominates trades, while American boys neglect manual labor. He cites a distressed lawyer who starved in a distant city, urging youths to pursue suitable trades with hands rather than pursue prideful, head‑only careers.
A collection of humorous and peculiar Alsatian style mailings shows letters misaddressed to famous names, actors, and locales. Examples include a note to Sir Walter Scott in London with a Theatre Bolton cue and a Balaam the fishmonger in London, plus other puzzling destinations and wordplay.
Washington Letter surveys leading Washington horsemen including Senator Cameron and Senator Butler riding tall chargers through avenues during Congress. Secretaries Bayard Whitney Lamar and the veteran historian George Bancroft are highlighted for their riding styles and weathering appearances in public.
The Detroit Kennel Club president demonstrates a dog education session with seventy thoroughbreds. The master uses whistle cues to command attention and recall as dogs execute synchronized drills, including a dramatic recall from a whip cue, showcasing discipline and training as if teaching students.
A column notes a popular parlor trick turning familiar phrases backward to create humorous babble. The readers are advised that saying the reversed words with dignity can pass for a strange language, entertaining circles with rapid repetition.
A column promotes oatmeal and simple porridge for breakfast or supper with butter or milk, advocates whole meal bread stale and toasted options, and suggests oat cakes, lentils, peas, beans, and maize for variety. It notes dyspepsia benefits from change in diet and references a cookbook about eggs as a nutritious, easy to digest option.
Practical advice covers cleaning glass with cold water and charcoal powder, using sulphur to deter insects in bird cages and closets, and shielding lamps with small umbrellas. It also gives methods for polishing silver with kerosene, maintaining stove exteriors with paper, and making a cleansing paste from fuller's earth and pearlash to remove grease and ink stains.
The Baltimore American notes enormous railway scale with 340000 miles of track, 50000 engines, 50000 passenger coaches, and 1000000 freight cars. It cites 4000 patents and annual freight of 300100000 tons, earning companies 1.29 cents per mile for freight and 2.51 cents for passengers, needing 100000 workers, all traced to Peter Cooper’s early steam car milestone.
A Philadelphia Ledger note explains American usage of bonanza. It argues the term is Spanish in origin meaning a calm sea and not a huge money scheme or mere luck. The piece cites St Matthew and a Spanish Bible to trace the word’s nautical sense.
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