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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1879
Page
4
Cynthia helps repair a torn dress for a bridesmaid as Frank Handy contemplates his future. The authoress Cynthia confronts love, pride, and heartbreak, resolves to transform, and seeks guidance from Frank while the party disperses.
A 19th century reflection on debt warns that borrowing is easy while repayment is hard. It urges living within income, paying as you go, and condemns charging beyond means. A Nevada man drove 28 miles to a funeral, found the deceased alive, and sues for $20 damages.
A writer argues oats are best for horses when crushed or bruised rather than ground. He describes simple oat crushers, compares crushing barley and corn, and notes crushed grain digests more easily, with coarse meal preferable to whole kernels.
Agricultural motes emphasize daily records, proper insurance on farm buildings, and improved winter protections. Advice covers ash disposal, storing useful materials, tidy barns, and systematic daily routines for cows, horses, and small stock to save time and ensure steady milk and general welfare. Weather-proofing, fodder racks, and exercise for animals also featured.
A Victorian guide describes simple decorative crafts for home use. Instructions cover making bracket pictures from pasteboard, autumn leaf anchors, glass framed engravings with black paper borders, velvet-lined keepsake boxes, and a cross adorned with gray lichen. It also outlines seed-pod like rocking-chair tidies, scarlet and black decorative wheels, and a scarlet zephyr bordered match-safe arrangement.
A 19th century home cook offers thrifty kitchen guidance with a relish for cold meats and cheap meals. Directions include making a tarragon vinegar sauce, a beef kidney toast dinner, and a thrifty twenty cent soup using basic pantry ingredients. Each recipe emphasizes low cost and practical steps.
A young suitor promised to give his fiancée in Montreal all his savings, several hundred dollars, and deposited the money in her name. He later fell for another woman and sought repayment. The first fiancée agreed to break the engagement but refused to refund the banked funds, treating it as a business matter.
A collage of spoof lines and quips from multiple sources with references to The Pittsburgh Telegraph New Orleans Picayune and other witticisms. The piece includes satirical verses on cremation humor and a string of jokes about topics from lacrosse to pigs.
An Indianapolis newspaper item recalls a ruralist who, after delaying three waiters for nearly an hour, examined the bill of fare and joked about skipping sections. In a separate vignette a fat man complains about butter price as he shares a meal. A clerk misallocates seats for a very fat man, booking one seat outside and one inside.
The ad promotes the New York Daily Witness at $5 per year and the Weekly Witness at $1.50. It highlights the paper as bright, newsy, wholesome and Christian, urging readers to subscribe for themselves and their families, noting affordability for ten weeks at $1 and listing publisher John Dougall at No 7 Frankfort Street, New York.
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