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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1892
Page
3
An aged poem recalls a bride whose wedding stockings symbolize fleeting joy and lifelong trial. The narrator traces the scent and delicate weave of milkweed imagined garland and rose folds, then the bride’s blushes and tremor as she prepares. The stockings become a relic of a joyful scene and a life afterward filled with hardship.
Etta Boyd, a pampered beauty, sparks a fading romance with Edwin Holbrook. His family warns against temptation but indulgence and envy lure her. Edwin sinks into drinking and crime, ending in insanity. Aunt Jenny solemnly blames Etta for the ruin and a once-promising life ends in tragedy.
M Sarcey regains distance vision but returns home to neglect and chipped china and torn books. A grand luncheon with performers from Comedie Francaise and Vaudeville leaves him desolate as he laments frights of painted wrinkled faces and aging beauty.
A cold wave prompts an improvised tale of warmth. An overheated man lends an old coat. a friend steals warmth by wrapping in newspapers until the coat fits. The story reflects on ingenuity and the stubborn pull of imagination.
A Brazil travel note by Fannie B Ward laments spoiled food despite abundant tropical produce and notes diet heavy in jerked beef and bacalao. Other sections recount a Newport haunted house tale with deadly drains and a profile of Mr Blank as a public figure hiding a private vice, warning on character.
The piece profiles cashiers in busy New York restaurants who handle quick, varied coin and small bills. It highlights a young man who taunts rivals with a $10,000 wager, their rapid, instinctive skill, and the challenge of spotting counterfeit dimes without slowing customer flow.
A wealthy New Yorker plans a $1000 gift to a distant pastor but changes to a subtle method by sending five twenty dollar gold pieces tucked in a Christmas remembrance box delivered to the parsonage. The gift substitutes for a check with delicate care.
A Russian justice tale ends with three disputants expelled and the money and skin left to the prerogative of justice after a payment dispute. The British Consul at Mogador reports enormous swarms of locusts alarming inland travel and attracting birds, foxes, barber bait, and Atlantic fish as the swarm covers ground in a dense brown fog.
A framed timepiece three by five feet shows a noonday landscape with blooming plum and cherry trees, a cascading hill, and a crystal stream. A golden sun on a silver wire marks hours, with a tortoise as the hand, a plumage bird song at each hour, and a mouse scurrying from a grotto at hour’s end.
Dr Abbott posed woolen threads red yellow green purple grey near Baltimore orioles to test color sight. Birds used all grey and some purple while avoiding bright colors, indicating a preference to avoid conspicuousness. A poetical line ends with a quip about the sun and a woman.
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