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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1889
Page
3
A collage of women’s questions about marriage and society quotes from T. De Witt TALMAGE and Max O’REIL, plus fashion notes on a two-in-one jacket and a pearl embroidery style. Includes a witty anecdote of a father gifting a bicycle to his daughter and lessons on women’s education and role.
A Boston Advertiser report notes shoe makers stamp removal to thwart size marking and possible early mislabelling schemes. A New York observer praises Boston saleswomen for attentive service, nuanced handling, and refined manners contrasting with New York shops. The piece contrasts retail ethics, customer care, and urban shopping cultures in two cities.
A discussion on milk adulteration explains how to detect foreign fluids by letting milk sit in a bottle for forty eight hours. It notes separation into cream fat and water, then mocks the dishonest practice. The piece then shifts to a jest about fat women, stating their market is firm but dwindling. A short dialogue ends with a sharp line about a would be son in law.
A reader from Little Rock, Arkansas shares a quirky reader note containing a recipe for Pumpkin or Squab Bread using boiled pumpkin cornmeal bil milk sugar and baking powder. The note also includes a garbled verse and hints at a coded puzzle with electrical effects referenced.
The article argues sanitation over medication to prevent disease in farm animals, noting swine are most at risk and that clean, ventilated, well fed, and dry quarters reduce illness. It discusses plowing as traditional soil treatment, asserting nature and roots thrive without tilling and citing breeding as key to thriving stock.
A profile of Charles Broadway Rouss, a controversial New York financier and Confederate veteran, detailing his eccentric life and wealth. He funds a massive 12 story building on Broadway, reportedly costing $1,000,000, with a quirky daily payroll and unusual personal habits while eschewing many conventional limits.
An eyewitness recounts a perilous expedition in the jungles of India where a maneater tiger stalked villages for years. The narrator narrowly escapes a fatal encounter, fires at the animal, and survives to tell of the life changing ordeal and the tiger skin kept as a grim reminder.
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