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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1892
Page
6
Poem reflects on human ingratitude and neglect of humble service. The speaker laments how people overlook the small acts of kindness and the souls who give to others seeking only a momentary pleasure. It condemns selfish blindness and praises tender duties.
In a quiet September scene an aged blind horse named Joe recalls a hard life under several masters. Once sleek and well fed, he describes brutal treatments, injuries, and years of forced labor from a buggy horse to a plow animal, ending as a starving, crippled, and fearful survivor awaiting winter and a mercy shot.
Lieut Schwatka recounts near Burk s Great Fish river on a coastal sledge trek to Hudson s Bay. Temperatures drop to 65 below and then 71 below zero with drifting winds. He notes cold as a condition, not just readings, and says calm winds accompany extreme cold, aiding survival in snow houses and water digging.
The piece surveys fashion origins tied to concealing deformities from hoops to long coats and oversized breeches. It notes patches under Edward VI, long coats under Charles VII, long peaked shoes for a deformed foot, hair length for Francis I, and Elizabethan breeches. It mentions large petticoats and costume excess, including belt width limits for shoes.
A traveler boasts that Argentina is dirt cheap, claiming a splendid turkey costs twenty cents. An onlooker questions the claim and quips about staying there, while the traveler ponders how to obtain twenty oumak in Argentina.
A fragment notes distance to the head of the Jock river or stream, stating the head lies twenty four miles away. The item reads like a navigational or geographic reference from an aged text.
The Pitman System class offers twelve lessons by mail for 2.00 with Prof. Eldon Moran as conductor. Remittance to University Extension Secretary, Box 322, St. Louis, Missouri.
Letters from Professor Moran guide members through phonetic shorthand lessons with patient practice. The text urges joining the Special Class, studying diligently, and mastering each lesson before moving on. It details vowel and consonant positions, word signs, and repeated copying to build memory and accuracy.
The piece rails at universities admitting many unformed minds shaped by wealth. It condemns the chase for degrees as a trap to place sons in stock exchanges or fashionable slogs. It laments shallow ambition and moral decline among the upstart class.
A Washington Virginia resident reports his wife suffered years with indigestion. After reading and using August Flower, she found immediate relief after the first dose and fully recovered, returning to normal weight and appetite.
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