12 Apr 1871
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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1871
Page
1
A feature with moral about dragons of indolence luxury and other temptations. Thackeray reference, personal struggles, and remedies for dyspepsia and catarrh intertwine with a fable-like tale of a rose and a meddling wind.
A former heiress, deserted by a profligate husband, rises from poverty to become a trusted clerk and later half owner of a New Jersey market business. She builds a strong home for her daughter and father, earning wide respect in Washington Market as a capable dealer who remains proudly a lady. Also notes early steam power history and a humorous anecdote about a minister and tuning viols during service.
A senior editor reflects on a trip to Washington noting Vinnie Ream's Lincoln statue and smaller details. The piece presents a long list of homely maxims for young ministers about happiness friendship patience and restraint, with a closing anecdote about the observer's impression of the city and the statue.
The Northern Pacific Railroad progresses rapidly with grading near complete for 260 miles from Lake Superior through central Minnesota to Dakota. Trains operate on 130 miles of track, the Mississippi River bridge at Brainard is back in service, and work extends westward toward the Missouri River while Pacific coast construction along the Columbia river valley begins. The company, including St Paul and Pacific acquisition, has 413 miles in operation and aims for over 560 miles of finished track by season’s end, at low costs for first class work.
The great dead novelist Duman never read his writings, saying if he had read them he would have burned the manuscript. This stark confession reveals his disdain for his own output and hints at a dramatic self censorship.
The article explains the economics of traveling circuses, noting about forty four companies, a first class setup costing around 100000 dollars, tent and equipment near 5000 dollars, baggage wagons 200 to 700 dollars, extra horses 500 to 600 dollars per pair, and a 5000 dollar gilded show chariot. It discusses salaries for performers, daily expenses about 600 dollars, winter layups in the North, spring starts April to May, or southern tours November to December, and that ten proprietors are wealthy while most are pawns of the sheriff. Weather is a major risk.
A New York street scene shows two barefoot ragged boys, one cheerful over a half withered bouquet and a peach, shared with his companion. A missionary visitor praises the noble heart over wealth, urging generosity to a friend and warning against selfishness.
Professor Listing of Gottengen explains that birds die under telegraph wires not from current but because their eyes lie on a horizontal plane, preventing accurate distance judgment. The same horizontal plane issue causes difficulty in judging step edges when descending stairs.
A dense, miscellany filled with demographic projections on age ranges and survival prospects, contrasting male and female longevity, then detailing temperance versus intemperance effects on mortality. It includes remarks on insurance risk, and a Meliorist anecdote praising maternal sacrifice, followed by science notes and moral maxims.
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