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Newspaper
Kane Leader
Location
Kane, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1885
Page
1
The piece extols the Lords of Labor as Titans of toil and trade. It paints their work as majestic, forging wealth from mines and mills. The poet James Macfarlane lauds their sweat and steadfastness, praising labor over state pomp and claiming nobler crowns for workers.
In a rural arc of letters and hardship, Miss Comfort Fairhaven helps a starving family reach aid, lends five dollars to Essie, and finds unexpected reward when Essie reconnects as a benefactor. Comfort ends in luxury at a Fifth Avenue home, where she becomes housekeeper and trusted overseer, her five dollars returning as fortune.
A Somerset Ohio blind farmer, Benson Taylor, navigates streets and gates with a cane and his dog. He cooks, milks, churns, and manages a model kitchen garden and stock judgments. He explains learning the country by memory, dating back to boyhood, and describes feats like locating a barn and recovering his property, plus his interest in geology and botany.
Mr Taylor enjoys amiable neighborhood respect for strict business integrity and is noted as a church member in good standing. He keeps his eyes bandaged to protect them, a detail reflecting a cautious, private life.
The table compares three-year standard Union enlistments with actual long and short term totals, showing deaths from all causes and loss percentages. Eastern states Connecticut Massachusetts Rhode Island report below average losses, while Maine New Hampshire and Vermont exceed average. Western states Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Wisconsin exceed average casualties. New York's losses fall between Pennsylvania’s. Mississippi exceeds Ohio in relative loss. Iowa loss historically double New Jersey's.
The article explains pulque as Mexico's national drink, derived from agave and poured from two daily pulque trains into Mexico City. It recounts the Toltec legend of Papantzin and his daughter Noahui, and notes pulque is beloved by natives though travelers may dislike its initial taste. It compares pulque to milk and describes its thick, ropy consistency.
A Rural New Yorker writer describes a folk experiment to place a egg inside a bottle. Soak a fresh egg in vinegar to soften the shell, choose a bottle with a neck smaller than the eye, a bottle half full of lime water then press the egg in as the shell toughens. The trick remains a conundrum for most observers.
A historical note explains that when a tailor agrees to make clothes to a customer’s satisfaction the customer may reject if not suited. Without such an express covenant the implied contract aims for a workmanlike fit, allowing rejection if the articles do not fit reasonably.
A five year study by Henry Forbes describes the Kubus of Sumatra as a shy, naked people who eat raw food, trade with Malays, own no personal property, and hold to a fatalistic view of death. They inhabit simple platforms, avoid outsiders, and practice minimal marriage rites. Forbes notes their distinct appearance and argues they are Malays in disguise rather than a separate Negrito-like group.
The text describes intoxication and skin wounds as preparations from white date seeds and arsenic, to be used on rice or in cigarettes. A thief claimed to have tested the method on three victims, stealing cloths rupees and gold dust.
A Reykjavik letter details Icelandic eider down gathering by early rising hunters. They search rock clefts and high ledges, collecting nest lining from breeding birds with care to avoid disturbing colonies. Two harvests occur yearly, yielding blue slate colored down shipped worldwide from Iceland roughly 7000 pounds annually.
A New York Sun report describes Gee Ah, a Chinese barber on Mott Street, performing a full grooming routine in a customer’s home or shop. The session lasts about thirty minutes, begins with a shave, includes ear detailing with tiny razors, a Swedish facial massage, and final patting and pounding to finish. The cost is stated as hap dolice.
Historical outbreaks in 1930 1845 and 1866 led people to prohibit fruits and certain vegetables, viewing watermelons cucumbers and ripe peaches as poisonous. Losses to fruit growers followed, and diets shifted to plain staples like boiled rice mush and milk.
A fragment from the Boston Courier presents a satirical catalog of personae and absurd scenes. It features a wealthy merchant with a straw hat, a junior clerk in a mackinaw, and a rogueish mix of comic characters including a hose fiend and a deceitful husband. The verse riffs on everyday figures and exaggerated outcomes in a humorous, fragmented flow.
A collage of joke lines and quips appears from various papers including Courier Journal, Puck, Lynn Union, Si. Paul Herald, Toronto Mail, Chicago Sun, Chicago Ledger, Merchant Traveler, Breakfast Table, and Boston Times. The items reference muteness of locust females, soggy pie, lake name changes, playful verse, grand tales of a baseball pitcher, and light domestic humor.
A historical note from the Sedgewick literary institute in Great Barrington Mass outlines a Turkish pilaf method. It urges selecting perfect rice kernels, cooking in broth, draining, then returning the rice with melted butter and not stirring. A napkin is placed to absorb steam, yielding a thoroughly cooked pilaf with separate grains.
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