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Newspaper
Lawrence Gazette
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1883
Page
7
A short reflective verse about home’s value despite personal flaws and daily cares. It contrasts plain hearts with complaints and notes that no home remains joyful all the time, yet home remains a comforting, complete blessing even after loss.
A prose piece extols the camel as the desert ship noting its hardy physiology that enables long treks in Asia and Africa. It describes the awkward ride, the saddle setup, the driver’s control, and the challenging motion for riders, concluding with the camel’s tough adaptation to desert travel.
A reader explains how mirages appear in deserts and on plains, detailing the deceptive lake illusion, travelers’ thirst, and the camel’s instinct to scent real water. The note concludes with tips to distinguish real water from illusion and cites the Congregationalist.
The Idaho Springs Gazette notes General A W Doniphan, age seventy, visiting the Spa Hotel. It recalls his 1846 entry into the Mexican War as colonel of the First Missouri Mounted Volunteers and his epic eight thousand mile, thirteen month trek through Mexico New Mexico and surrounding areas. The piece highlights his vigor his companions including C C Bangs and Former Governor Gilpin plus an uncle of Doctor Hall who joined the regiment and helped shape New Mexico law.
The article traces the origin of the term lead pencil from Cumberland mine misnomers and explains how modern pencils use a carbonate of iron blended with clay. It describes hardness grades from needle point to broad marks, manufacturing steps, and the role of clay in achieving different point styles.
Alfred Tremble describes South American rancheros, noting their simple tastes and large families, the pride in cattle counts, and the mix of traditional practices with occasional educated ranchers. He details slaughtering, jerked beef drying, bone heaps, and a bone-filled lake in Venezuela, contrasting routine poverty with rare enterprise.
At the Loan Exhibition Hall Mrs. Harvey and Mrs. Wells discuss a new landscape by Paul Jenkins from New York. The artwork vanished from display after a brief chat about the piece and its prior placement on a bracket then an easel, with Agnes Fisher and Helen Brooks mentioned in connection to the incident.
In a grand hall a rumor swirled about a missing Paul Jenkins oil painting from Mrs. Wells drawing room. Agnes Fisher was accused of theft, the tale growing with each retelling until truth efforts surfaced. Years later Mrs. Harvey recalls the incident and its impact on a Vermont community.
Morere the tenor, famed for a whistling skill that alarmed horses and unsettled Paris crowds, is confined as incurably mad in an asylum. He once whistled so loudly at the opera he drew fines and public disturbance charges. He now daily practices to drown locomotive bells and Notre Dame chimes, while fellow inmates pity him.
The piece argues marvels quickly become routine, comparing evolving technologies to the telephone and speech replication. It notes rapid adoption of wonders, likening future feats to a man flying from a building to a pier and becoming commonplace. It references New Orleans celebrating the steamer Egyptian Monarch and Mississippi River jetties.
The article allerlei charges the Republican party with land theft and corruption across the West. It cites Desert Land Entry and Timber Culture act abuses, fraudulent homesteading, and large ranch fences that deprive settlers. A special Land Agent reports widespread neglect and perjury, urging accountability and reform.
A Maine general, Neal Dow, declares in a letter to Dr. Miner that he and his followers will break with the Republican party as in Massachusetts. The piece critiques Dow as a political agitator, noting past bravado without lasting action and criticizing past alignments with party bosses.
The Democracy of Ohio carried the state on Tuesday marking its sixth victory since the party formed. They won the Governor’s seat and a majority in the Legislature amid a heated ante-presidential year contest. The article argues the win signals a needed shift from Republican control and predicts Ohio as pivotal in 1884, with Democrats primed to challenge in future races.
A New York World item recalls Chester A. Arthur and Rutherford B. Hayes meeting at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Arthur, now president, is praised by elites while Hayes, once powerful, is mocked as neglected. The piece suggests a stark shift in fortunes and hints Arthur’s reaction if their paths cross again.
The London World reports that Robert Browning is in excellent health and spirits. He has found a summer retreat described as the most beautiful cluster of Alpine cottages just under Monte Rosa, five thousand feet above sea level, reachable only by mule transport.
A Chicago Inter Ocean columnist mocks the idea of traditional Italian bridal games by noting that even several married women could not restrain an American bride who chooses marriage. The piece comments on cultural stereotypes and female agency with satirical tone.
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