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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1883
Page
7
Lucy bursts into the kitchen with sunny news that Jack is dead but not the living. She urges her mother to stop ironing, dress nicely, and greet visitors while she reveals that a tall, handsome man awaits at the gate, bringing the long awaited news. The scene blends mourning and hope on a bright day.
A nameless mother writes of her quiet sacrifice as she toils unseen for her child. She imagines her daughter growing into a woman supported by a devoted, selfless mother who relinquishes society, fashion, and private life to guide and educate the next generation. The letter laments lost companionship and embraces a vow of service through motherhood.
A New York law student lured into debauchery is forcibly shipped to Port Said aboard a short-handed vessel. After fever and hardship he becomes a stoker on an English steamer, endures war refugees and Alexandria bombardment, and returns to Boston a long presumed dead. His father’s home in Central New York awaits his safe arrival.
A Boston Globe piece argues that trained nurses greatly improve patient survival during critical illness. It emphasizes nurses’ crisis awareness, calm competence, multiple troubleshooting options, and meticulous aftercare that support surgeons and doctors in every step of treatment.
A reflective piece from Christian Union condemns daughters who scorn their mothers sacrifices. It portrays a young girl dismissing her mother’s old fashion dress and neglect of books while the mother toils unseen in kitchen and chamber. The essay urges daughters to offer recognition, cooperation, and loving gratitude.
Reports from Athens describe a severe small-pox outbreak causing general panic among students. University classes were suspended as two hostile factions clashed with sticks and revolvers, police failed to stop riots, and the university was closed. The Polytechnic followed suit with its own closure, leaving only one school open in Athens.
The Massachusetts Ploughman notes farm animals depend on human care in winter. It favors multiple small feeds twice daily for cows and urges differing needs for horses and pigs. Horses lack a larger stomach and overfeeding coarse hay reduces nutrition. Feeding horses more often is advised.
A late seventeenth century tale tells of a Berkshire Baronet’s daughter who wooed a poor attorney after meeting him at a Reading wedding. She masked herself to issue a duel or marriage challenge, her second urged marriage, and after the ceremony she revealed her beauty at her home. The husband, Benjamin Child, later became High Sheriff of the town.
The Conference Committee reports a substitute for the railroad bill proposing price controls, a three member Railroad Commission to regulate rates and service, salaries for commissioners, and required annual reports. It sets maximum passenger rates, freight rules, and enforcement powers, with penalties for extortion and discrimination and provisions on hearings, bonds, and state funding.
A new Italian decree bans sale of patent medicines in the mederis unless the exact composition is disclosed. The interior, customs, and sanitary ministers promulgated the measure. Meanwhile a Rome chemist holds about $500 of patent medicines at Dogana awaiting possible return to England. Also noted is a Connecticut Massachusetts panther tale recast as a dog, and a New Orleans Carnival queen, Miss Susie Richardson, with a dress of three thousand pearls. A Hazelhurst Mississippi shopkeeper sent for fifty dollars worth of pennies to circulate, but his town refused them.
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