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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1879
Page
10
A Victorian era verse asks what rights women possess focusing on labor love prayer and comfort. It invites women to use their influence to brighten homes guide orphans and comfort the poor and dying. The poem ends urging if these are your rights you have enough to answer for.
A historical list tracing American women who married British peers or their heirs since 1825. It names Mrs Patterson and Louisa Caton wife to the Marquis of Wellesley, the Duke of Leeds, Lord Statford, and other peers, noting marriages through 1877 and suggesting many more would extend the roster.
Washington cor respondent notes that many high ranking men including Baron von Verg, Tyner, Christiancy, Fairchild, Chamberlain, and Judge Brewster married treasury employees. The piece highlights widows and daughters of former officials now working in government, challenging claims that treasury workers are unfit for marriage to prominent men.
The article examines nuptiality among widowers and divorced men using Bertillon data from Holland France and Belgium. It finds widowers marry at higher rates than bachelors across ages with up to fourfold differences. Divorced men marry less than bachelors before 26 but surpass them after 26, reaching parity with widowers around age 40.
The London Times reports on M. Bertillon findings that men incline to remarry after marriage, while widowers and widows show varying re marriage rates. Women’s remarriage rises with age, widows and divorced individuals display distinct curves, with Berlin and France offering notable exceptions among widows.
A Indianapolis Herald correspondent recounts the Central American dansita, noting its changing keys, intimate embraces, and rhythmic shifts. The piece emphasizes the sensuous, swirling round dance as dancers weave between partners and two Spanish beauties, ending with a shrill musical cue.
A narrator observes Mexican women in Vera Cruz, detailing showy outfits with embroidered or spangled petticoats, unhatched heads, and distinctive riding styles. He notes a formal gesture where the cavaliero places his hat on the woman’s head and covers his own with a handkerchief. He later describes a vivid street scene of a young girl in lace, crape, and satin slippers, and reflects on a church view of women with magnetic eyes beneath a rebozo.
The passage depicts a proud poblana woman, daughter of the people, torn between passion and ambition. It contrasts eyes filled with interrogation and dreamlike imagery with her love of jewelry, romantic serenades on the mandolin, and the fear of a cold earth, as described by the Corres. N. Y. Evening Post.
Fashion notes describe spring bonnet and millinery styles with new damasse bunting dress material. Colors include rose pink pale blue old gold and reed green. Silk gloves ten-button and white Canton crape bonnets appear with flowers feathers and lace. Bouffant bands and light linen kerchiefs feature in dresses. Broad-brimmed hats and light summer silks with chine stripes gain favor for street wear.
In a New York Times letter Mr. Conway notes the upcoming eighteenth hundredth anniversary of Pompeii destruction. A jar of wine found in a rich villa cellar may be opened at the commemorative festival to be held in the resurrected city.
Dutch settlers in South Africa are frugal except when ill and will seek a doctor at once. A doctor’s fame can bring wealth, and odd cases boost income. one surgeon was said to lose credit for endorsing liberal ablutions to an elderly lady. The husband condemned new customs clashing with lifelong health habits.
A minister trusted a colored servant with sermon manuscripts. For a passage about devils entering the herd of swine the servant hesitated to advise, finally saying in dialect that the work seemed to him to be among the hogs rather than the devils.
Describes Dr Anderson and the Ball estate orange groves near St Augustine with fruit quality noted. recounts an alligator hunter tale from the marshes, mentions moccasin threats, and observes local fire-gleaned pasture effects and a humorous note on plural Jones names in New York society.
The piece argues that compliments should be sincere and well timed not shouted. It advises expressing praise privately when possible, but with a strong clear message, avoiding formal remarks that feel cold. Examples show pleasant, genuine remarks easing social interactions.
A Massachusetts verse maker once named Thomas Paine sought a Christian name to avoid the famed Paine’s notoriety. In Washington an Mary Oliver, a controller of the treasury clerk, faced scrutiny and intrusive interviews amid a scandalous suit involving Mrs Oliver the second and her tormentors.
A humorous 19th century style note taunts quire singers with mock tips. It urges giggling hair hacks and showy headgear to reach soprano notes. The piece mocks church choir behavior and joke strategies for handling tunes, stage presence, and audience dynamics.
Howard Pyle in Harpers Magazine portrays Peninsular Virginia as lightly manured yet quick to yield crops with early returns. He notes lingering old farm methods, deep poverty among poor whites, and widespread ignorance, depicting a century‑old rural society in a dormant, Rip Van Winkle like state.
Prof. Pancoast shows Carolina twins at Jefferson Medical College detailing their single back bone below the shoulders where the spine splits like a Y. The back to back sisters now stand side by side after twisting to walk. Touch below the union affects both. above, each feels separately. Dr. Pancoast predicts they may die in unison.
An excerpt from a longer poem speaks of the ship of state and national resilience. The verses urge steady steering despite storms and fears, promising unity and perseverance with faith, hope, and prayers guiding the nation through perilous seas.
A collage of comic lines and quips from various papers includes jest about a horse and oats, a sheriff, a monarch, a clerks name Gaskill, and contrasts between butter and rank. It weaves political, social, and literary quips with playful misprints and cartoonish punchlines.
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