06 Mar 1884
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Newspaper
Malvern Leader
Location
Malvern, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1884
Page
1
A mix of local curiosities and distant notes shows a boy in Grimar who smokes heavily, tobacco exports in 1883, Joaquin Miller log cabin plans, sea serpent sightings misattributed to whale bodies, and notes on English noble descent. Also included are hog population reports, Herbert Spencer on religion, a Goose medical prank with a payable bill, and a Paris bureau portrait of Abdul Hamid.
A shabby man attempted to join a Vander Lilt reception, took two chairs, and was seized by servants. Det. Rogers took him to Toombs Police Court where John Williams, of 17 West Eleventh Street, was found to be using a fictitious name and address. He was discharged as a simple minded crank.
The Chicago News argues that United States judges deserve salaries commensurate with their status to avoid private interests or a decline in judicial caliber. It warns that underpaid judges risk compromising independence and financial security for themselves and their families as they transition from private practice to national service.
An analysis of popular plays shows how direct appeals to emotion trump reason, yielding large profits for producers. The piece cites Anzel Kirke and Bartley Campbell as dramatic money magnets, while noting many writers earn modest sums or fail. It recounts Crockett style etiquette and the quest for social polish amid celebrity.
A Cincinnati messenger in midwinter 1860 faced a treacherous ice crossing at night to deliver $90,000 to the St. Louis office. With ice holes and biting wind, he crawled step by step across a frozen Mississippi while lanterns failed and the shore loomed distant, fighting the cold and despair.
A drenched man endured hours of crawling toward town after a perilous riverfront trek. He reached the shore, collapsed at an express office, handing a package to a clerk before losing consciousness. His fingers bear silent witness to the torment and days of aftercare reported by the Cincinnati News Journal.
An American in Berlin recounts a comic encounter with the city police over taking a baby to a park. A German officer insists on a permit to stroller the child, leading to a German exam of the family, servant, and carriage. A yellow stamped permit is finally issued, granting the Irish servant permission to take the infant in Schoolenfel Park.
The article traces Disraeli's dining habits and wine views, noting his sparing dinners to stay appetizing for public life. It cites his observations on wine, Melbourne's drinking lesson, and his tempered approach, including anecdotes about Burgundy, brandy, and remarks on conviviality.
The Albuquerque Journal details a Moqui Snake Dance as a religious rite. Men hunt snakes, place them in a sacred estufi, and ritual actions surround an altar with 33 rain-stakes. Participants chant, drink an herbal decoction, and a dozen performers circle the ring while snakes are handled and offered sacred meal. The account ends noting fatalities from bites and the ritual’s fearsome nature.
A fragment clues Old Miles as a famed Virginia bridge builder for Stonewall Jackson. His bridges reportedly failed or burned during floods, shaping harsh memories of the era.
In a daring Civil War moment Miles was summoned by General Jackson to complete a critical bridge over the Shenandoah after Union forces burned it. Miles agreed to work through the night, and by dawn the bridge stood finished, though the plan’s details remained unclear and the outcome uncertain.
An elderly gravedigger near twenty years on the job recounts eerie graveyard rituals. Owls hoot at night signaling funerals, while visitors range from grieving kin to secretive lovers and curious strangers. He notes a still, hushed world where echoes of the dead linger after gates close.
A dialogue at supper centers on sweets and liquor where Dumlay argues a sweet tooth fuels liquor craving and child sweet tastes shape future habits. Brown counters with anecdotes about gin and sugar and the moral lesson that indulgence breeds discontent, urging restraint to avoid later faults.
A collection of old home remedies and tips from a Boston physician, covering glycerine lemon mica for hands, wearing rubber indoors for rheumatism, gum tragacanth usage, whiteners for garments, cream rising technique, scrap-booking for children, varnish composition to protect saddle trees, starch preparation for linen, bread dough rising temperatures and yeast behavior. It blends practical household science with dated language and instructions.
A fourteen year old Salt Lake boy tells a Boston visitor of being raised by five Mormon mothers after abducted by Indians in Arizona. He passes from one guardian to another through deaths and disappearances, claiming he has known real sorrow only after six repeated losses.
A truncated biography tracks Jerome A Fillmore born on a rocky Pennsylvania farm. As a barefoot country school child he watched surveys for the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad, later becoming a brakeman and rising to general superintendent of the Central and Southern Pacific Railroad system. His annual pay reached about 15000 dollars, with a life story described as upward and admired.
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