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Newspaper
Nanaimo Courier
Location
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 13, 1889
Page
3
A collage of rhapsodic reflections on intangible wonders and folk tales. It blends playful phrases about nothingness with reminiscences of whaling life, rushlights, and curious detectives. The piece weds mediaeval wonder to 19th century curiosity with scattered anecdotes and moral musings.
A Boston dinner table cites Morse on Japanese civility comparing cruelty to animals with European-American critique. The piece notes the origin of the burial line In the midst of life we are in death from 911 and reports mail travel time between New York and San Francisco at 113 hours.
A mixed column offers verse by Orelia Key Bell and reflections on poverty, Eskimo tool use, a Chinese mining camp, and clever advertising. It includes stray notes on readers, a dream link to a French novel, prison demographics, and oddities from travel and market life.
During Sherman’s 1864 siege of Atlanta a young Mobile woman Jane Moorehead was found dead in her Walton Street lodging after attending a ball in bridal dress. Stab wounds to the heart ended her care for wounded soldiers, sparking theories of love and jealousy as Union troops entered and later left the city.
Landed goods include 100 tons Pig Tron and 25 000 wire bricks along with 300 casks of Portland cement. Kirkman & sons present Pinnafortes a choice assortment. Curtiss & Harvey handle blasting and sport from Dana andon.
An 1880s advertisement extols Chlorodyne as a universal cure for coughs asthma dysentery diarrhea and many pains. It quotes Dr J Collis Browne and claims strong therapeutic powers with warnings against imitation. The notice lists manufacturers and legal cautions about piracy and misrepresentation.
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