03 Aug 1870
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Newspaper
Massillon Independent
Location
Massillon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1870
Page
1
A long mixed article blends John G Whittier poetry praising corn with a detailed colonial survey of powder mills, river canal magazines, and explosive manufacturing. It recalls India’s Scinde region snakes, civil anecdotes, and a humorous shipboard mishap tied to a lantern-lighting scene.
A tour describes the Austin Powder Company near Akron, its eighty two acre site beside the Ohio Canal, twenty seven buildings including shops and houses, and a daily capacity of 300 kegs of blasting powder or 160 kegs of sporting powder. It notes historical growth from 15 kegs per week in 1835 to modern production, outlines charcoal retorts, virgin rock brimstone, pulverizing processes, and the origin of saltpeter from the East Indies.
A city car near Fulton Ferry becomes the scene of a moral drama as a young woman, under pressure from a brash flirt, is protected by a courageous Quakeress who tears up a card offered to the girl. The remorseful man withdraws as fellow passengers, mostly men, quietly praise the strong intervention.
A recollection of life after emancipation shows former slaves and their families adapting to new freedoms. Anecdotes describe literacy efforts, makeshift classrooms in plantation quarters, guarding hens from open shutters, and humorous exchanges about marriage, property, and one veteran tale of a steamer voyage ending in darkness.
A Boston merchant tries a gifted Vermont boy for a mercantile role. The exchange covers calculating prices for fabric and tea, and a test with a two dollar bill and twenty four items. The scene highlights practical arithmetic and humorous misreads.
A boy questions seven and a half cents per pound for beef, doubting the price. Pickernel deflects with a shrug, sending the boy away and returning the next day with a letter declining to answer.
Advice warns that eye strain from long reading or sewing damages sight. It recommends avoiding dawn to dusk light shifts, reading with overhead oblique light, and stopping any eye effort by resting, walking, or talking when fatigue begins.
A dated guide recommends a fruit and grain based diet with minimal meat and fats, water in small sips, light loose clothing, daily full body bathing, and rest from labor. It notes workers may bathe at night to aid sleep and suggests cooling the body quickly with ice in the hands or cold water on the wrists.
A wandering tourist cried near the Mt Vernon ice house thinking tears fall for Washington's tomb. The piece notes how success relies on the length of its tail. It cites English nobles ruined by turf gambling and asks if female blushing counts as a hue and cry. A Brattleboro VT mother mourns a daughter who died at eighty. she has been widowed sixty years.
A fragment asserts a woman speaking on both sides of her mouth and suggests a married man’s care is governed by his wife, implying mutual influence in domestic life. The tone hints at social commentary on marriage roles and permissibility of speaking freely within a partnership.
A humorous exchange mocks a wedding scene with a suited gentleman and a playful pun on vowels. The joke hinges on I and E in bliss, while others lag in parody, reflecting a lighthearted newspaper aside from the era.
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