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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1873
Page
4
A field guide style notice describes using green copperas dissolved in water to deodorize foul smells and purify air on ships, hotels, markets, and homes. It claims practical uses for kitchens, slaughterhouses, and to neutralize offensive gases from decaying animals.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in the Independent comments on the Massachusetts House defeat of a suffrage bill. She notes boorish opposition and the heated tone of argument, arguing abuse harms supporters and highlighting the era’s struggle for unpopular truth.
A therapist in Landon claims a hot wand bath treatment as an infallible rheumatism cure. He argues it preserves perspiration unlike hot water or steam baths, does not impede respiration, and allows longer exposure at higher temperatures. If proven effective it could aid many patients.
In a humorous survey from Our Monthly, foreign speech is shown lacking direct equivalents for everyday concepts. Examples include Hindi words for friend, Russian knout misrendered as knot, German thimble as finger hat, and French lacking verbs for stand or home terms, revealing cultural linguistic gaps.
A fragment notes peculiar birds called turkeys that forage in cloudy skies and deep canyons. It mentions a bright tin lure attracting seven birds, cites Mr Dunbar of Denver as saying it is a species related to the albluon a bird, and asks what is found among the Andes in South America. The style mimics a late 19th century natural history aside with scattered quotes.
The Boston Traveller reports a suburban store owner stored eggs in a box under an attic floor with a year test. After nearly 25 years the eggs were discovered, shells intact, whites vanished, yolks dried and hard. The keeper notes the packing date and has planted several eggs to test vitality. A memorandum with the deposit date was in the box.
A collage of anecdotes on science errors, a dead wasp, a tame insect, heat warnings, a Wilmington editor, Brutus lore, an opera scare, a safe word mix up, crime in Paris, and a Notre Dame wedding theft. The piece blends puns, public health notes, and curious misadventures across multiple locales.
A collection of simple kitchen formulas and crafts including steamed pudding with sour milk and corn meal, a sweet sauce for puds, a corn sponge cake, and instructions for making a decorative woven basket from cedar bark roots and red cedar for ornamental plants.
Private Paris letters describe fashion shifts with velvet bands, gold motif hair decorations, shield shaped earrings, and renewed veils. High collars and ruffs return while crimped fringes recede. Necklines rise with bare, proud necks and simple chignons return, as white haired women honor Marie Antoinette.
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