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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1876
Page
6
A showery day finds an old man and four children sheltering near scaffolding as marble blocks rise. The worn workman stories of toil contrast with a blooming child. a distant Shining Form watches unseen while the palace looms. Cornhall Magazine.
Charles Matthews, a young mechanic, debates charging purchases and finally tests paying cash. His wife Hannah argues cash saves money, reduces waste, and avoids ledger traps. After a quarter of strict cash spending, they cut costs, pay all bills, and save toward a cottage, proving “Just charge it” costly.
A reader cites humorous typographical errors from a New York paper showing misreadings such as This Part Said is rendered This Pat said is and Put out the flag as Pat cut the hog. The piece notes editorials misreadings and public notices caused by faulty typesetting and sloppy copy.
A lecturer recalls Lamartine boasting at Baint Point of a portico built with mixed architectural orders. He predicts future pilgrims will admire his architecture while his verses fade, ending with a quip that he always “rated himself at so mucha column.”
The San Francisco Bulletin profiles John A Thompson known as Snow Shoe Thompson. He carried U S mails over the Sierra in twenty winters using long Norwegian snow shoes. Born in Norway, he emigrated to the U S as a child and later mined and ranching in California. He first crossed from Placerville to Carson Valley in 1856 with mail sacks on his back. He traveled ninety miles in two days returning, often alone, sleeping on mailbags by fires and in rock shelters. He saved James Sisson from a frozen cabin in Lake Valley and escorted him to Genoa for surgery. He never wore an overcoat or used blankets and hopes to retire with a government pension of six thousand dollars.
A Liverpool Albion report traces the Queen’s crown history noting sapphires rubies and emeralds with royal pedigrees from Edward the Black Prince to Mary of Modena. It explains the 1838 break up for a new imperial crown and contrasts with St Edward’s crown and 1788 renovations.
A historical clipping describes brutal eastern punishment methods, focusing on the elephant execution in Baroda. A bound victim is tied to an elephant which tramples and crushes him, either killing him on city streets or outside the city with the head placed under a stone before the crushing foot.
A Cyprus festival called Cataclysmo mimics Venus worship with sea rites. A teen girl is seized and carried to sea in a boat, then saved and crowned as a queen amid revelry. The ceremony, tied to Venus Anadyomene, survives as a vivid cultural relic dating back to ancient times.
From a London letter to the Toronto Globe. Ben Webster the Frederic Lemaitre of the English stage, aged eighty one, was believed dead after illness. An old servant refused to accept the doctor’s prognosis and helped him to rise from the bed. Webster, alive and well, rejoined his friends who drank hot whiskey to celebrate.
The Boston Herald profiles Captain John Southworth of Duxbury Massachusetts as a remarkable nonagenarian. He has never needed a physician, avoids tobacco and bad habits, reads fine print without glasses, and remains active in gardening. At ninety he rowed a dory to shore with gear, fished twenty large fish, and returned home by seven.
A humorous remark notes that even the most glowing sermon passages attract little notice compared with a churchgoer who blows his nose during services, highlighting the spectacle over spirituality.
A dated column surveys jokes and trivia from jokes about temperance and manners. It notes poems by Townsend and Trowbridge, fashion miscues, a Paris sale of a Stradivarius, and a mock christening of humor amid miscellany.
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