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Newspaper
Marshall Messenger
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1876
Page
6
A playful tale of a bashful turtle courting a crimson flamingo contrasts with a cleaver business parable. Ben Weston helps his friend Joe Weston through debt via advertising, debt management, and eventual partnership after a sharp fall in sales.
Two entrepreneurs, Benjamin Weston and cousin Joseph Weston, debate advertising as a path to fortune. Benjamin defends spending forty two dollars and seventy five cents on three months of ads, while Joseph ridicules it, predicting hardship. Their wager and later talk reveal rivalry, budget strain, and differing beliefs in bold marketing.
A Midland Railway conductor noticed a commuter’s ticket lasting unusually long and, after bending it, found missing punch holes. The man had been collecting fallen pieces and reinserting them, masking the fraud. The company barred him from buying more tickets and posted a warning in the ticket office.
The New York Chinese community observes Seppiety with ancestral tablets, incense, and a ritual feast for deceased relatives including duck, watermelon, and vermicelli. A married daughter must present a gauze wardrobe with miniature household items and provide food and a duck as proof of filial devotion.
An Antwerp modern painting show excludes nude subjects drawing clerical protest and city displeasure though the exhibit is run by a committee. Connoisseurs note a few good works like Munkacsy's Interieur d Atelier while overall quality seems mediocre. A Antwerp musical festival applauds Benoit's War despite imperfect execution.
M Leonce de Lavergne argues in Economiste Francais that war losses left France with 550 000 fewer inhabitants, many men aged 20 to 40. By 1878 births exceeded deaths by 101 776, well below 1872 levels, with 19 636 fewer births and 61 524 more deaths since 1872, Normandy showing excess deaths in several rich departments.
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls King Charles's execution in January 1649 and the sorrowful scene at Windsor. It notes he was not described as wicked, while contrasting Grom as ambitious, and mentions four loyal servants, including the Duke of Richmond and the Marquis of Hertford.
A Physical Society talk in London notes defects in eye achromatism. Short sighted observers see a blue fringe around the moon and unequal spectral clarity in red and blue ends. The speaker cites focusing issues and visual distortions when viewing blue ground patches and other small details.
An elderly man sits beneath a tree with a child on his knee as winds sweep leaves. The poem recalls life passing quickly while a child wonders about aging and time. The old man laments a life that flits away as the winds carry leaves and memories.
A collage of sightings and notes from 19th century life including urban growth in Bern and Smyrna, travel chatter about steamers to La Plata, and social commentary on marriages to attend the Centennial. Reports mention Major-General McDowell’s health, theater earnings in San Francisco, and buffalo hides in Dallas.
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