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Newspaper
Lititz Record
Location
Lititz, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1879
Page
4
A stranger from the frozen North seeks health on alien earth but finds only mild air and balm. His pain lingers as a timid angel of pity draws near. A tender shade softens his weary, drooping head at a woman’s breast, amid orange blossoms and palm groves.
A chaotic digest reports an arson attempt on a Quarryville bridge to loot cargo. a mine blast at Otto colliery burns eight. railway and bridge repairs in Lehigh Valley. coal trade, schools funding, and railroad terminal plans in Pennsylvania. fires, deaths, legal actions, and notable local events across towns like Reading, Pittsburg, Lancaster, Philadelphia, and Danville with numerous named firms and officials.
The New Orleans Picayune jokes that a man on a Sunday morning spends about sixty cents at a barber shop and more on billiards, boots, cigars, and a box of strawberries, proving his vanity yet devotion to his wife as he brings treats home.
A girl at a Towa seminary cut all the hair from the head of her sleeping roommate in retaliation for a slight. The faculty expelled her for the act, marking a severe disciplinary response within the dormitory.
A sprawling miscellany of quips and quick jokes ranging from marriage foibles to schooling trends. The item riffs on worldly witticisms, odd facts, and stray anecdotes, concluding with an advertisement for Prof Paine’s Anti-Septic Remedies promising cures for fever and chili.
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