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Newspaper
Kimball Graphic
Location
Kimball, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1884
Page
8
The piece reviews cremation as a new practice in eastern cities, hints at wartime and political conspiracies, and notes the Credit Mobilier scandal. It mentions Lin will 5,000 as a sum to various heirs, quinine price spikes, and a diary excerpt about Queen Victoria’s views on Germany and France.
The piece surveys widows across society, from mortuary mourning to social maneuvering. It cites stage depictions, literary examples, and real cases, detailing widow types, gradual mourning, and strategic remarriage as a means of sustenance and status.
Excavations south of Mayence near a Ludwigshahn railroad route uncovered burial sites with stone coffins and skeletal remains of mothers and children. Artifacts include bracelets nails toys, a polished goblet, bronze mounts, a wooden casket, a bronze ring, and coins from Hadrian to late third century, suggesting multiple burial periods and lavish grave goods including a Bacchante bronze figure.
The piece blends anecdotes on animals that seem to cheat death like a turtle head kept alive after decapitation and eels surviving out of water, with a vivid description of a Springfield Mass factory where self feeding envelope printing machines churn out about 45,000 envelopes daily, operated by a single girl guiding the process.
A Pall Mall era letter writer laments receiving a flood of inquiries after a birth notice. He describes strings of letters offering small loans and dubious investments, all to no avail, comparing the pressure to a notorious figure in the republic.
Springfield hosts six firms in envelopes papeterie and related products. Powers Paper and P P Kel logg Co produce envelopes only while Birnie Paper and National Papeteria Taylor Nichols & Co Morgan Envelops mix both lines. The oldest firm began in 1865 and recently expanded on Harrison Avenue with facilities for envelopes papeteria and boxes. It uses about 1,200 tons of paper annually with envelopes revenue around 17,000,000 yearly and papeteria about 1,600,000. Manufacturing involves cutting shaping and folding with complex machines and waste remains.
A jumble of humorous fragments from a bygone column. Vignettes include a sick grandmother’s bedside plea and a child’s witty mishearing about dying, a Hartford boy’s flowers reply, a quiz over kindness to boys, a boy’s heaven quip, and a string of playful miscommunications. The anecdotes feature children’s blunt humor, family scenes, and old time schoolyard banter.
A remarkable case of imposture is reported from Canterbury about twenty years ago Frances Wood and Panny Jordan of Clapham Hill Whitstable faked illness to gain sympathy and aid. She feigned paralysis to the point of meeting little use of limbs while a hidden black mark concealed by a cork disguise gave the illusion of disfigurement. Her mother remained unaware of the deception until later. The case drew relief from parochial authorities and Shavity Trustees and was later revisited in religious journals. The deceiver’s father served a short jail term.
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