The Gold That Wears
A nostalgic lyric of autumn vows and memories of a lover. The speaker recalls a promise to return, a kiss, hair, a ring, and a gold ornament as the season turns to red leaves.
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Newspaper
Moline Review
Location
Moline, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1878
Page
5
A nostalgic lyric of autumn vows and memories of a lover. The speaker recalls a promise to return, a kiss, hair, a ring, and a gold ornament as the season turns to red leaves.
A Ballymore Sun correspondence describes Madame Bosquet offering an assortment of eligible women in Paris, including fifteen orphans with fortunes from 6000 to 120000, twenty five young ladies with fortunes from 3000 to 180000, and twenty four widows with fortunes from 7500 to 110000. The piece notes the opulent room, the booklet library, and the businesslike approach, leading to a tentative appointment in early July.
A meditation on how a gentle voice reflects a kind heart. It urges youth to cultivate tone by day and in all activities, noting sharp speech harms, while praising steady, soft speech at home and in public. Training in sweet tones now yields lasting harmony and grace.
The piece links insanity to poor nutrition, excessive drinking, toil, and hereditary weakness across classes. It notes dipsomaniacs among the upper class and warns that overwork, improper habits, and desultory living produce nervous disorders that may culminate in madness. It ends with the thin line between sanity and insanity.
A New York Sun item describes the mayor, his clerk, and John T. Boyd overwhelmed by couples seeking civil and church weddings. Italians, French, and Germans are most visible while Americans and Britons are rare. Fees are informally handled with a guide claiming $5 as a standard, plus an extra dollar to the clerk. The scene includes wandering officials and a perfumed, crowded City Hall atmosphere.
ADetroit Press item recalls a young boy alerting his widowed mother on Park Street to a well dressed man asking about her. The boy recalls the caller in broadcloth with a bank watch and asks if she has remarried. The mother rebukes the boy and orders him back to work.
Professor W Stanley Jevons notes that soap increases pedesis or Brownian motion in water, boosting cleansing action. Pure water cleans best due to high pedesis, while impure water loses it. adding alkaline salts helps dissolve oils but lowers pedetic power, whereas soap enhances both.
A reflective piece compares Dutch children and dogs, noting their sober, grown-up manner and the Dutch penchant for grooming. It observes how dogs on Scheveningen sands resemble poodles in outward appearance, with various breeds clipped and trimmed to a formal, bovine silhouette.
An account describes assembling a guillotine by lamplight with reporters present. The machine rises about fourteen feet, painted dry blood red, its knife masked by a board, and a basket and box placed nearby as observers wait under a gas lamp.
An advertisement extols Ayer’s Cathartic Pills as a mild but thorough purgative for a wide range of ailments from indigestion to skin diseases. It emphasizes their safety for all ages, lack of calomel, vegetable composition, and preserved sugar coating, claiming world wide reputation and tested efficacy.
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