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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1878
Page
1
In a tale of social climbing Mrs. Jones courted Mrs. Mortimer Mowbray as a dazzling guest for a private soiree. The plan backfired when Ethelinde Lourne discovers Carolyn La Roy’s affair, exposing class prejudice, deceit, and a ruined circle of trust.
The article lists eight Chinese drum types with shapes materials and playing methods. It describes tsou-kan vu-kan liten-kon kin-kon and others from clay to cedar wood and gourds, noting uses in songs, funerals, and ceremonies and detailing drum features and decorations.
The article notes varieties of military drums similar to previous ones. It explains coverings, tages and sticks often painted. Drums mark tours at night and announce visitors at palaces. In religious rites before the Emperor drums are muted by drape coverings rather than sound.
A theatre tale recounts Mr. Toole performing Tiny Tim in The Christmas Carol in London. He befriends a young dresser’s daughter who shares throat and hunger with siblings, then strives to curb her appetite and ensures meals for her family during the show’s run.
The piece discusses how a queen's wealth is framed as coming from investments by a wise Prince Consort and from high ecclesiastical livings. It inventories incomes and costs of large households and noble estates, noting the queen would lack a roof without certain allowances and contrasting incomes with expenditures.
A clipped excerpt reflects on laughter as a measure of character. It contrasts hearty mirth with cold smiles and snickers, arguing that those unable to laugh are predisposed to treason and deceit in life.
A compilation of curiosities and social snippets including cotton bales, debts and drafts, postal mixups, tall tales of tall men in Mendota, religious wakes rules, California gold finds, fashion shams, and deer-law proposals across regions from Boston to Petaluma. It sketches urban oddities and reform talk with scattered named places and figures.
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