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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1891
Page
2
The text mocks women riding bicycles and defends decorum while condemning child marriage in India under British rule. It critiques military training improvements, notes aging, and argues for immigration controls via misdemeanor laws. It also discusses lawyers advertising like other businesses, urging public marketing.
Poem fragment attributed to Frances Macdaniels describes a scent and rapture rising from a floral form. It conveys delicate fragrance mingling with a spirit, roses, and garden imagery, expressing ecstatic, sweet wildness.
A troubled penitent recounts a life of vanity and flirtation, her thwarted love for Pere Severin, a young priest who sought to save her from a worldly life. The scene unfolds within the cathedral as incense, whispers, and the glow of Christ illuminate a confession that exposes her past and pain.
In a Paris church confessional a repentant wife recounts her fall from grace and claims guilt while the missionary Pere Severin consoles her. The revelation shocks onlookers, including the Marquise, who witnesses the priest’s whispered mercy as Isobel seeks forgiveness.
Regret rise as many Troy excavations artifacts vanish or are repurposed by locals for huts. After the death of Schliemann a guard was hired. pay stopped and protection ended. The Stamboul appeals to European and American scientific societies to halt iconoclasm and support continuing the great archaeologist's work.
An epitaph from 1633 for a nine year old child uses pagan references and Christian consolation. It notes Great Jove lost his Ganymede and Meneleb, then affirms that God’s darlings are kept in heaven, implying a salvific view after death. The piece contrasts mythic imagery with faith and mourning.
A fragmentary note describes Bhe Aes using a dip net and sending an item to the shelf. The text is incomplete, offering limited context but indicating a casual action related to a storage or display area.
Helgoland, a 420000 square yard rock near Germany, is slowly eaten by the sea. The island, unlike the mainland, is a solid stone with grottos and arches, a church, lighthouses, and a small town. It hosts a summer tourist trade, with fishing the main livelihood otherwise. Under German rule the island may gain hotels and steamers, but locals fear changes and police control. under British, taxes and limited land sales kept profits evenly shared.
A Buffalo Commercial correspondent recalls a central New York open air winter bath tradition from about twenty years ago. Comrades bathed daily from gutuma to springtime despite zero temperatures, cutting ice to keep the site open. The scene mixed bold plunges with laughter and competitive dares, as bathers smiled through frost and joked about pneumonia while shivering under towels and warm salt.
A speaker laments fashion of gowns that trail dust and mock women with big feet. She considers rebellion but fears scorn and ridicule. She admits cowardice in resisting prevailing gowns while drafting new, disliked dresses. The piece centers on feminine conformity and personal restraint.
A nostalgic verse from Saint Nicholas evokes a child’s world with little items a girl might own and do. The poem moves through toys, daily rituals, growing up, and a farewell kiss, ending with a quiet, reflective note on a girl now gone.
A humorous fragment from Atchison recounts a girl crying a day over Hanmam’s death and jokes about circuses and witty remarks from Miss Docker of New York Miss Emerson of Boston and others. It includes quips about flies on Mr Spotts and a museum prank and light chatter with newspaper quotes.
A spirograph for drawing spirals and volutes in circles is devised in Paris. Manila hemp thrives when soil contains decayed vegetation. Alpine glaciers count reaches 1 155 0 with 249 exceeding four miles. Bittychnine increases gastric secretion and acidity. Art society probes standard color definitions for scientific and industrial use. Sir William Siemens uses electric light to grow plants aboard a West Indian steamer. Italy experiments with lignite for fuel. Dr William Anderson’s purification method costs about 1.50 per million gallons. Celluloid base from paper involves acids, camphor, colors, and rolling and baking. Food-poisoning antidotes include rinsing with pure water and soda cooking. Nitrogen as an anesthetic was tested in Hugianid gas, amid dramatic scenes.
A woman advocates timely departures after social calls to avoid scandals and damage to reputations. She argues men should leave at proper hours, guardianship by family protects young women, and that respect for women is essential. The piece urges men to act as guardians and rely on self restraint.
A writer rails against prudery and recalls a country house memory. He describes a conservative schoolteacher daughter, a card game, and a misheard question about touching a foot versus a limb of the table, illustrating social restraint and wit in a bygone setting.
An observant woman at a city dinner mistook lime juice for a sauce and splashed it on her salad. Realizing the error only after tasting, she avoided further embarrassment by asking for lime juice, provoking amused chatter among guests and highlighting menu etiquette.
Mrs Edwin H Low, wife of the noted steamship agent, is described as one of the thriftiest and pleasantest business women in New York. She works with her husband, crosses the Atlantic to manage London agencies, and handles the New York office in his absence. She embodies courtesy and refinement, maintains a home, entertains many friends, appears in society, and is Blanche Roosevelt's sister.
Miss Elizabeth More of Edgeworth Pennsylvania builds a neat little cottage with her own bande, laying foundations plastering walls and doing carpentry. She dressed in male attire for part of the work assisted by a young friend. She is noted as pretty and energetic and once mentored by Dane Gray Swinsheim a champion of woman's rights.
The article extols women horseriding for improving balance on moving streetcars, noting roundness of form and health benefits. It claims horsewomen stand steadily in vehicles, maintaining feminine dignity while adapting to motion, praised by observant men.
The article notes that almost no women are employed in remunerative work, contrasting with 21.33 percent a decade earlier. Women gained in government service professional and domestic work trade fisheries and manufacturing while declining in indotorship and personal service. In 1886 nineteen industries excluded women, later reduced to seven by 1880s.
A physician urges girls to eat wholesome nutritious food at breakfast and to avoid skipping the morning meal. He warns against dawdling over a few dainty dishes and neglecting breakfast, deeming it harmful to health and the heart.
Miss Lillian B. Perry of Covington Tenn describes her ideal husband as noble and forgiving not given to mean acts. She seeks a man who guides as a woman, is manly, avoids gossip, and keeps scandal out of truth while sharing doubts and joys.
Roza Coghlan answers how she preserves her beauty saying she avoids steel corsets and cages. She stresses mental activity keeps her weight stable and notes she never drinks with meals, criticizing American women for drinking coca cola and Apollinaris during meals.
Lady Macdonald, widow of Canada's late premier, will be known as Countess Karnscliffe, a title tied to her late husband's county seat. She is celebrated as a leading, culturally adept figure in Ottawa politics and society. The article notes her tact and popularity in the dominion's capital. Graceful Benevolence of Royalty. The Queen regent of the Netherlands and her daughter declined a public reception during their Amsterdam visit. Officials redirected funds to feed the poor, feeding over 80,000 people and providing breakfast to 35,000 deprived children, with each child receiving a photo of the young Queen.
A woman from Oblo gathered a handful of sick items and carried them to a fire. The scene included a sticky string around her waist. She made no alarm, corked a bottle, and later visited a druggist, showing surprising enterprise despite the odd conduct.
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