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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1895
Page
6
Poetic fragment recounts a minstrel’s harp whose gold string awakens souls and stirs tears. While mortals listen and dream beyond the bars of life, the heavenly chorus wanes as the golden string lies broken, and life moves on like time’s stream toward eternity.
In a moonlit country Christmas tale, Carrie Brown and Fred Jones declare affection while Captain Logan vies for her hand. Sam outwits the captain by chasing bells in the Kendrick barn, sparking a festive misadventure that ends with Carrie and Fred engaged and the captain leaving town.
Dr. Garnett of the British Museum explains how a London tradesman possessed a very rare work once thought lost. The museum paid for it and other offers show many imagine age makes a book valuable, while bindings can outshine the text in worth.
A Texas defense unfolds as lawyer Gassaway appeals to a jury for his client facing theft charges. The attorney moves the court with a moving plea asking jurors to study the defendant’s honest features, while the accused sobs. A humorous outburst interrupts, accusing the accuser of swiping a pocket handkerchief.
A historical note describes producing fish essence by cooking fish with water in a closed vessel at extremely high heat until fats are exhausted. The liquid is strained, skimmed of fats, and used as food or mixed with other millets, while waste parts and sieve residue are converted to manure.
A long excerpt blends poems and battle sketches. It highlights the figure of the army sutler profiting from war while recounting a daring river assault by Confederate forces on the Underwriter, led by Wood and Loyall, with brutal combat, loss, and prize captures. It also reflects on Civil War troop figures and a judge’s wartime clemency anecdote.
An illustrated description contrasts a Spanish girl balancing a water jug atop her fork with a historical account of mont de pieté institutions. It traces Spanish and European pawnshops from the 16th century, noting their charitable origins and evolution away from church control, while highlighting social roles around wells as village gossip centers.
In a distorted excerpt, a speaker scolds a cook named Mary for a misdeed with a rap or bark remark while a vicar recalls a sermon about brothers and sisters, set in London. The text reads like a damaged script with unclear context and incomplete lines.
The fragment hints at control by a domineering partner and an idealized view of women. It references a Life magazine quote about a woman under a partner’s thumb and comments on the unattainable image of the “Coming Woman” and her unattractiveness when seen up close.
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