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Newspaper
Iowa Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1893
Page
2
A fragmentary reminiscence poem evokes memory beyond seas and skies, recalling long-departed loved ones. It threads themes of burial, waking life, and a cradle song echoing through Arcadian past. The fragment mentions a cradle song from a person referred to as she who sang it.
Frederick Putnam, foreman and bookkeeper for William Winston & Company, tells how a near fatal mistake over a stolen coat and a dozen thousand dollars nearly drove him to suicide. A mislaid receipt, a misused coat by Carrie, and a late realization resolve the mystery as the money is recovered and returned to Winston.
The great oaks at Waverly Massachusetts are ancient survivors of a long regional forest and, along with a venerable elm, serve as a valued natural monument. State ark Commissioners inspected the oaks and aim to preserve them as public property, with the trees praised as a regional glory comparable to the State House and Old South Meeting House.
A New York Advertiser excerpt recalls a Young Fuller in a debate on Capital Punishment. A boy challenged the Mosaic law and asked who would kill the last man, prompting laughter and applause as the boy’s logic defeated the deacon and clergy.
A judge on his way to court met a dirty facing street boy asking for a shine. The judge offered a dime if the boy washed his face. The boy complied and returned for payment, but refused the coin saying the judge should keep it for his own “awe cut,” then ran off.
A reader notes canaries suffer from tiny red vermin visible only under a microscope. The remedy is to place a clean white cloth over the cage at night, which traps and reveals the parasites by morning.
A New York Recorder tale describes Melungeons as a distinct Eastern Tennessee people. It claims they descend from Portuguese settlers who mixed with Indians and Africans, forming a tall copper-colored, cassocked-free society with unusual marriage norms and little religious influence.
A collection of short moral vignettes and children's sketches from a 19th century juvenile page. Babykins meets a weekly visitor behind a glass. a shop boy seeks work and finds a job with a kind merchant. a boy’s breakfast hope and a patron’s charity. adventures from Youth's Companion and Starpers Young People with playful exchanges about clocks parrots and coins.
A lava flow from a volcanic eruption threatened Catania but stopped inches from the wall as the town prayed to St. Agatha. Later science explained the reversal by gas jets in the lava blowing itself back, allowing the wall to stand and lava to cool.
In the third article of Life in the Invalid's Room Elizabeth Robinson Scovil notes physicians favor various disinfectants. Copperas, sulphate of zinc with salt, and sulfuric acid are among affordable options though some stains or odors may deter use. Copperas solution is applied to vessels before use and used to cover discharges, with multiple daily applications to control waste and odors.
An audience in St Helena Lancashire watched Signor Foli break into laughter during a public show when a child tried an impromptu duet to The Raft. Foli and his pianist left the stage as he struggled to continue the song.
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