02 Feb 1882
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Newspaper
Moulton Advertiser
Location
Moulton, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1882
Page
1
The Moulton Advertiser is issued every Thursday by White & White. The annual price is two dollars in advance.
A hurried bird's eye tour of the Atlanta fairgrounds describes the Kenesaw railroad site, the four winged main edifice, and numerous exhibits. Highlights include the Porter-Allen steam engine, Kennedy Brick Dryer, musical instruments, Koabe piano, fine paintings, extensive entomological displays, and the Jaguard Jewelry expo. Adieu being January 2, 1882. The Southern Movement essay follows, denouncing Republican coalitions and detailing Senator Hill's critique of Dr. Felton and the aims of independent Southern Democrats.
A census enumerator recalls a mourner who said his wife died of improvements as he questioned a grieving man. The report notes widespread violations of the postal stamp law with postmasters selling stamps beyond their districts, including a Virginia postmaster profiting about 500 dollars by selling to Baltimore merchants, as authorities pledge to halt the traffic.
A doctor tells a sick man to seek freedom from worry and nervous distress. The patient, excited, demands a written version and threatens to file for divorce immediately. The dialogue ends with a humorous shift about cleaning fence corners and planting a corn crop.
The author denounces hog lard as disease laden and unfit for use. Advocates refined cottonseed oil as a pure vegetable alternative, superior for biscuits and frying, cheaper, and offering butterlike results in cakes. Provides price: 55 cents per gallon wholesale, 70 to 75 cents retail, about 10 cents per pound.
A boy wanders from his mother's cottage and, after bravely seeking a way home, follows a light to a gypsy tent where a masked woman is found to be his mother in disguise. She has searched the woods for him and finally reunites with her lost child.
A French inventor proposes a new language built from the seven musical note syllables do re mi fa so la si. Simple words map to single syllables and compound words form about 2,500 distinct terms. He predicts the project could serve everyday conversation within two millennia if given time.
A ruse involving $500 to sway a daughter from marrying her chosen man worked in Bloomington Ti. The plan unfolded even after the wedding party arrived at the church, proving a smoother and more legal alternative to a shotgun confrontation.
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