14 Jun 1894
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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1894
Page
1
A fragmentary diary style reminiscence recalls rural kitchen scenes with mothers, a father, and children as they share meals and old traditions. The narrator describes labor, divorce, and hardships shaped by cherished home life and community values despite poverty.
In a foggy village tale, Miss Beulah contemplates a black silk dress via money saved from charity, faces sly vendors, helps Pat Murphy with a loan, and ultimately chooses moral restraint over vanity. A bank debt, a stealing temptation, and a life lesson pivot on charity, trust, and dignity across a tight-knit community.
The article blends a discussion on flirting among both sexes with moral judgments about courting behavior. It cites Lady Clara Vere and a jealous suitor, notes the supposed hypocrisy of men and the supposed designs of women, and then shifts to a siege era portrait of Metz, detailing how horses fed the city, meat prices, milk scarcity, salt shortages, and the toll on children, before a whimsical aside about a gator and a pond.
Workers on a Damascus turpentine farm found an alligator that had crawled out during a warm spell. The cold snap left the creature stiff and motionless, prompting the men to decide on destroying it.
A Persian ruler, the late Shah, mocks a court poet for a new performance in an odd metre. The poet is tied to a stable donkey and held until a second poem is read. After hearing it, he begs to be sent back to the donkey, failing to praise the master’s work.
A satirical riff on republic governance and party unity mocks leaders and editors. It notes politicians may ride party wheels for power, Coxeyism as a revolt, and contrasts wheel bosses with statesmen while lamenting misapplied provocation and Providence in venal outcomes.
At a late Paris ball a stout gentleman, owner of a bad catatri and a wife, insisted she return home after a polka. She promised to dance again, slipped to the dressing room, seized his hat, and tossed it out a window. She then returned and secured partners for six more dances, confident the hat would not be found for two hours.
Miss Sarah Adams, an indefatigable philanthropist, takes control of the Cotton Mill Block in Shelton Conn. She plans radical sanitary reforms, demanding tenants to comply or vacate, arguing cleanliness and cheap living can coexist. The text notes insect vitality experiments by Spotlanyi and entomology findings on extreme cold effects.
The article describes the papal seal ring bearing a fish engraving and the wearer’s cipher, used on official documents. Since the thirteenth century every Pope wore such a ring, and it is shattered with a hammer at death to deter forgery.
The piece explores the nobility tied to flags and the flag’s role in naval deeds. It recounts historic acts like saving ensigns at sea during Paul Jones era and the Union flag’s composition showing England Scotland and Ireland. It explains flag colors, ensigns, and ship classifications including the white blue and red ensigns and their privileges.
Early theorists linked stars to earthly influence, but science shifted view. Recent Irish experiments using a two foot telescope and electrometer claim measurable electromotive forces from Venus and Jupiter, with Jupiter possibly far stronger than stated, and Sirius showing a small but detectable force compared to a Daniell cell.
An obscure, humorously tangled piece features a foreign suitor declaring greatness in Europe while an American girl, son of a once poor father now running large hog slaughter, is contrasted with a Russian count in a playful, mock epic tone.
112 years ago the Pennsylvania state cruiser Hyder Ally engaged the British twenty gun sloop General Monk near Cape May Roads. Lieutenant Joshua Barney executed a daring feint forcing the enemy into a favorable angle, the two ships lashed together and the Hyder Ally unleashed a devastating broadside, the General Monk surrendering with 136 aboard and heavy casualties.
A Florida fisherman recounts visiting North Carolina cops and Colonel Keogh to observe vast herring hauls in Albemarle and Pimlico Sounds. Colonel Evans notes Indian River mullet abundance far exceeds his state, recalling a near drowning when thousands of mullet swarmed a boat, forcing shedding light and anchors to reach shore.
In a New Hampshire circuit court town a cold evening gathers lawyers around a village inn fire. A belated traveler enters and, after a wry exchange about distance and manners, the group muses on local customs as the Boston Herald notes.
Fragmentary note describes modifications to equipment where horns or thorns were paired with hooks and buckles. It references earlier use in fittings and instruments, noting Ping did not immediately angle or adapt a thorn as fasteners and employed different appliances.
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