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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1896
Page
3
A fragmented reminiscence recounts Kelley a wandering ballad singer and impostor in Civil War camps. He feigned language mastery, toured troops with songs about Shiloh, and was finally killed at Fort Robinette after months of deception.
The text cites researchers filming wild animal behavior and notes sensational claims about cannibalism among West African coast peoples and Samoyeds. It references Letourneau’s tables, a British review, and anecdotes from Kalguey and Eskimo groups, suggesting cannibalism existed in the past or out of necessity, with chilling descriptions of practices and conversions.
A scientist Georges d Infreville previews a night photography process avoiding flash, noting partial visibility and the role of electricity, with remarks on animal night vision. Also reported are Parisian balloon survivors forming a society after the siege and a humorous tale about being in the majority as children mock a peer.
In Shanghai treaty port at Shang hai washmen labor in winter and summer beside muddy ponds. They soak rub and beat linen on polished stones, breaking thin ice to wash clothes with no hot water. Ice is stored in wooden mud salt hay icehouses, and natives endure harsh work for little pay while Europeans seek white shirts. Burmese women and men display vivid dress with silk wraps and jackets, bright colors, and distinctive costumes reflecting local fashion.
A fragmented clipping mixes a long critique of beauty standards with anecdotes on social circles. It links a Washington Post quote about female beauty and the era’s fashion ideals to observations about capital from friendships and hotel networks in New York. It also includes brief quotes about Dr. Johnson, Kruger, and a joke about babies born at night.
A long article recounts a dramatic tale set in a southern town where two men contend for a woman's hand. A duel of pistols ends with a respectable man dead and the rival wounded, and the girl dies from a stray bullet as she watches. The killer leaves town after five years, while the rival’s fate is a farm and marriage. The piece closes with a brief moral about better daily effort.
The Minneapolis Tribune notes the death of Mr. Liverman at age 95. A famed traveler, he rode some of the world’s earliest railroads and was among the first traveling salesmen for a New York jewelry house in the southern states. He sailed to California with Horace Greeley and endured a six week quarantine at Panama during railway construction. A separate item reports Wm. Drefabsch’s discharge from custody on a farm-house arson charge near Westwinwater.
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