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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1885
Page
3
A fragmentary poem depicts a brown maid on a doorstep with a clock and a baby, exploring winding time. The speaker muses on time’s slow aging, joy’s tears, duties and cares, and the future when the child grows and time speeds by. Phobos and fate appear in reflective imagery as time advances.
A Times Star observer chats with an elderly philosopher about life on the streets of Cincinnati at daybreak. They describe working girls from sewers to clerks, noting wages, hours, and dangers while exploring how tiny earnings cover housing, meals, and necessities in a city economy.
Practical advice for hot days from Philadelphia Times. Consume lighter meals and avoid meat or butter if possible. Favor fruits and liquids, avoid tight clothes and cold drinks, seek country or seaside escapes, ride buses to save energy, bathe feet regularly, avoid stimulants, and keep the head cooled with frequent washing and a light hat.
The article describes General Grant's state metallic burial casket, six feet long and 250 pounds, with cedar shell, purple velvet, and silver mountings. It notes an air tight design and a glass cover, plus an inner copper lining and satin interior. It also includes a brief family dialogue about calculating population using a child’s slate.
An overview of placer deposits in Yavapai County Arizona detailing rich auriferous gravel beds, historical harvests, and the potential for expanded mining through water management. Describes Lynx Creek and Weaver districts, Keetch Hill findings, and the economic prospects of hydraulic works to extend operations and boost yields.
The fragment discusses water storage reservoirs for surface mining at Avapai. It notes that, if used as long as a cable season, the bed could last over twenty five years. It emphasizes large capital for reservoir construction and water supply to the mines.
The piece praises the modern American girl as fearless, self reliant, and capable of independent thought. It contrasts her with older norms, cites Bay Harbor and Mt. Desert as settings, notes the emancipation of women through companionship and choice, and argues women should choose intelligent partners and shape their own futures.
From 8 Valparaiso Latter. Women, twenty to twenty five, in blue flannel or uniform drive street cars as wartime practice fades. They carry tickets and money in leather bags. male flirtation mobs swarm cars. a comic strip mocked the conductors, briefly pausing the nuisance before resuming. Police protect the conductors who face insults. pay is 325 per month.
A merchant recalls his dog Betsy nine years with him as they move houses. Betsy hides her litter of three puppies near the wagon and refuses touch until her family is safely settled on the driver’s seat. A separate playful note depicts a schoolgirl’s grammar joke about plural quarrels.
A Rome correspondent portrays Mancini as Italy s top lawyer and a master of eloquence whose career spans exile in Naples to Turin professorships and cabinet posts He enjoys royal favor despite political divides and is celebrated for his piano talent and charm His wife Laura Beatrice Oliva and daughter Grazia Pierantoni are noted as writers with Pierantoni editing Mancini s lectures The chancellor’s wife Princess von Bismarck also praised for music and soothing the ruler’s spirits.
Baltimore’s hot spell boosts summer beverage sales with acid phosphates and pear syrups gaining popularity. A Baltimore firm reports over 900 gallons sold this month, as egg phosphates and coca cordial gain favor for nourishment and anti fatigue. Calisaya cordial, Limes and vichy mixes also attract crowds, with social groups gathering to enjoy the cooling drinks.
The article surveys beverages from lemonades to tonic drinks, noting a brisk demand for various preparations. It highlights Vicky and cream, fruit syrups, sliced flavors, and mineral waters like vichy water, pear phosphates, and curaçao cordial. It mentions Maryland waters rising in popularity and foreign bottled waters from Saratoga and Germany.
Read as a vivid travelogue, the passage extols Circassian women’s beauty and physical form. It notes youthful curves, long dark hair, blue eyes, and delicate features, then details attire including loose silk pantaloons and sandals. It claims early maturation, unique waist bindings, minimal undergarments, and lack of hard work in their society.
A Portland tale recounts a mock geyser near Wasco County and a timber slide on the Prairie canal. A polyglot storyteller spurs belief in a water spout while transit travelers observe a roaring plume and moving logs that rise in the air as they descend the mountain chute.
A traveler recalls a grand clock in Strausburg and a Rhine spectacle while a pink dressed guest longs to see both. A schoolmistress hushes children as they await the moment. Reports from the Nile expedition note overpricing and theft of shipped shoes by natives.
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