11 Apr 1895
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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1895
Page
1
In a crowded Easter service the church glowed with sunlight and flowers. A four year old girl entered with a apron full of blooms and urged, Bring some flowers for Jesus. She dropped them, then left to seek her mother, and her act sparked a communal surge of giving as the gifts grew large, led by the child’s simple offering.
On radiant Easter day a young woman with a gray dress and a white lily walks with a melancholy man who notices her flower and recalls a past Easter lily. He jokes about melancholy while she responds with gentle wit as they share a quiet stroll toward a passing cab. SUNLIGHT fills the scene as they converse.
A cryptic exchange unfolds among churchgoers as a man comments on a flower and another woman. The scene hints at memory and desire, with interrupted dialogue that suggests a hidden story starting on a similar day.
A man who shunned church becomes entangled in a tender love story told through a lily and a memory. After a chance encounter at a church service, he realizes the girl who offered him a lily is in love with him, yet he plans to depart to spare her pain. He returns the lily with a vow to begin a new tale, then places the means of memory, a wilted lily, away as a sign of the old love fading into memory.
Dr Hatfield of Leachtown and Dy Thau of Elizabeth performed a rare operation on Miss Myra Simmons. Tight knotting of hair caused scalp separation from the skull, surgeons removed coagulated matter, reapplied the scalp with hair, and expect a full recovery. It is described as the only known case of its kind in medical science.
Springfield Union reports a quirky exchange noting a pancake themed remark and a muffed expression. The piece hints at a lighthearted incident involving a hat and a confused speaker, capturing local humor and a moment of confusion.
A historical note on the Allegheny Portage Railroad in Pennsylvania using stationary engines and cable traction on ten inclined planes, detailing height, distance, and machine gear arrangements. It also touches on Scottish fishing life and a reflection on seafaring danger and memory in coastal communities.
Report notes Helen Weller in New York, a teen blind deaf and formerly mute girl. She speaks with slow articulation and uses touch to admire Keats poetry and a Napoleon bust, recognizing expressions and recalling victor days with trained discernment. The piece praises her exceptional mind and the need for careful schooling.
A drunken tramp eyes a chicken on stage and exclaims about an Easter egg. He then declares the egg cannot get away, urges steady handling, and ends with a warning that the bird might not shell out in time. The quirky dialogue reflects a comic performance moment.
An Easter meditation paints the thaw as a miracle of renewal. Winter yields to spring as waters flow, birds return, and the world brightens with life. The text celebrates belief in resurrection and the hand that revives creation, urging faith in life after death.
A religious reflection on how spring symbols renew a believer’s faith. The text links daily ascent in spirit to the resurrection, portraying spring as outward growth and life after death, richer than during winter doubts.
A fragment from a Boston transcript captures Miss Singlewun and Miss Whingummy trading taunts about age and appearance. The brief exchange centers on a remark about never reaching 45 again and a sharp comeback.
An inventive Scottish inventor uses a two-mice driven thread-spinning device. Mice operate a little mill with paw-work producing daily effort equivalent to ten and a half miles of travel. The text shifts to a discussion on lunacy and the tendency of inmates to become insane, noting Tosomnia as a recurring medical curiosity.
Mrs. W Gurley of Glaren ce Iowa recounts ten years of severe stomach trouble with sleepless nights and failing health. After doctors offered little hope, she credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring strength and appetite. The pills, sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady NY, cost 5 cents per box or six boxes for 2 50.
A bee expert explains that on good days a worker visits 40 to 80 flowers per trip, collecting a grain of nectar. With 200 to 400 flowers per trip it yields five grains, and with favorable conditions fifteen grains in a fortnight. A pound of honey would take years to produce, killing about 8,000 cells. A hive holds 20,000 to 50,000 bees, half making honey, half caring for the hive. On a fine day 16,000 to 20,000 bees in six or ten trips can visit 30,000 to 1,000,000 flowers.
The Western trunk will set a rate of one standard fare plus two dollars for the round trip to the National Educational Association meeting in Denver Colorado this July. Variable routes with reduced side trips from Denver to principal Colorado points and extended trips to California Oregon and Washington will be arranged. The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway offers through cars from Chicago via Detroit to Denver with full particulars from I A Miller Assistant General Passenger Agent.
Brampyell Booth outlines the 1894 Darkest England movement reporting London housing 100000 paupers 30000 abandoned women 83000 homeless adults and 25000 slum children with 10000 new criminals yearly. The scheme shelters 5400 homeless nightly with seven labor factories employing 1000 men and 250 women. The farm colony is profitable, aiding many from unemployment through agricultural work.
A fragmented 19th century notice from Toledo Ohio names Frank J Onenex as senior partner of F J Onin & Co promising payment of a dollar for each uncured tobacco case and mentions Hall's Catarrh Cure and No-to-bac testimonials. It also references Rev Sabine Bar ing Gould and a Sterling Remedy Co letter from G H Hood praising No-to-bac.
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