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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1883
Page
7
Aunt Jemima recalls a quilting party and a husband driven by religious ideals that framed women’s roles. She narrates a stern 19th century view of female submission, education, and virtue, contrasting it with rising calls for women’s equality, while detailing her long marriage and dutiful, homemaking life.
A Boston Transcript excerpt portrays Squire Pettibone as iron-handed in social rule within a devout New England household. The speaker recalls a life of obedience and restraint, noting daughters Jenny Susanna Ruth thriving yet free in their pursuits. The passage laments gender roles and echoes a widowed era’s limited choices.
Reports from engineers and diggers describe a vast quartz reef across two miles with widths from two to eighteen feet and gold yields from two to three ounces per ton. Alluvial sections reportedly yield up to 1,900 ounces per ton, with average assay around 48.5 ounces of gold per ton and 0.375 ounces of silver.
Mr Jacob Augustine a bachelor died in Ohio aged 87 after a love disappointment as his sweetheart became demented. After his death his wedding suit spun by his mother was found in a chest bottom with his will and six hundred twenty five dollars in gold. Also noted are recent discoveries of ancient Hebrew and Hebro Russian scriptures found at Yemin in Arabia.
The article recounts myths around Albertus Magnus, claiming mastery of chemistry, medicine, and magic. It narrates Thomas of Aquin’s fear, an automaton’s fragile reveal, and various sensational tales of travels and wonders, while noting Magnus’s virtue and scientific prowess amid legendary embellishments. It also shifts to modern Colorado mining talk about Carbonate Camp, Garfield County, and prospecting prospects near Leadville.
Joseph Mulhall reports a new mining camp at Carbonate Garfield County Colorado begun last month in the Ute reserve. The site shows rich silver bearing carbonates and lead, with 347 lots sold from 50 to 250 dollars each as snow blocks access. Mulhall and John Sanger faced deep snow and reached Soda Springs where hot baths drew settlers and prospectors. Mulhall stayed eight days and plans to return as trails thaw.
A detailed glimpse of editorial workflow from six to two in the morning shift in the London journals. Reporters submit manuscripts, editors decide topics, and proofs rush to the printer as pages are laid out and final edits made before the morning edition goes to print.
A collage of allusions and biographical notes from multiple papers recount prominent figures and events. Highlights include Dr. Bigelow winning a Paris Academy prize, Col. Frank H. Pierce's asylum commitment, Catherine Wolfe’s matrimonial offers, and assorted foreign policy, society, and transport tidbits.
An excerpt from a Detroit Free Press report presents Brother Gardner delivering a sharp series of dialect speech lines. He lampoons frugality, politics, religion, and progress as he urges readers to see through pretensions and beware hypocrisy. The piece reads as a social critique embedded in African American vernacular.
Richard Laprise of Lowell Massachusetts, sixty, fell ill from teething when four new upper front teeth emerged after old ones had long since fallen out. A Boston Test note reports a quack doctor fleeced a Rhode Island man for twenty five dollars with a goose egg that allegedly cured consumption colored hair black removed freckles and loosened rheumatic joints.
A collage of short comic bits quotes pithy lines from newspapers. It presents travelers, editors, society figures, and a youngster curious about ponies, with witticisms about fools and fools eyes. The notes reference Avorristown Pittsburgh Hawkeye Toledo Brooklyn and Texas Siftings.
A compilation of short items: Oscar Taylor refuses $1,000 for a Confederate half dollar. mills in America produce 450 miles of thread daily from imported stock. a merchant avoids tours by advertising in papers. a hunter shoots himself while hunting near Green River, Wyoming. adulteration fears in tea. a barber bets on eggs in Manchester by the Sea. muskrat hunting in Augusta. Vermont silver coins unearthed triggering a mass digging spree. a clock ad device in depots and hotels. New York Language Club promotes phonetic spelling. Chihuahua Apaches report Charley McComas remains alive with the Indians. New York scenes of day and finance. Carlisle education journey of an eighteen-year-old Indian boy. eastern city child distress stories. Sir John Rose’s rise from Canadian lawyer to billionaire. Enoch Arden-like Cleveland tale. London dinners and toasts to the Queen.
Ely in Cambridgeshire is the only city in the kingdom not returning a member to Parliament and not forming part of the first Reform Bill. Its population is about 4,000.
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