15 Jan 1885
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1885
Page
1
James E. Walker's offers today a refreshed stock of ladies, gentlemen, and children's silk and linen handkerchiefs tablecloths and napkins in plain white and colored borders with a sale tone and promotional phrasing.
Titled notes from Toxpan and Johns ville report on bachelor marriages and minor local events. Remarks include widowers seeking wives, a quaking town due to fear, a physician injured slipping on a stone, mills to restart, and school news with a spelling bee champion Clarence Fox. Also a feature on slow learners and a January bribery claim about a jail plan.
A provocative column argues for a blend of moral charity and monetary aid, urging richer residents to help fallen sisters and improve compassion beyond dollars. The piece condemns Pharisee-like self righteousness and calls for practical kindness alongside donations. A separate Paris-Berlin note reports the stabbing death of Frankfort-on-Main police commissioner Rumph amid unrest, with anarchist links suspected.
A brief note mentions Dr Fabrucy offering a health restorer and blood purifier, with reference to Myer ierviguebes in connection to the product.
A Chicago Tribune fragment recalls a table with five diners and two well mannered children, a boy and girl, aged seven and eight. The mother in evening dress exudes status as the children order elaborate fare with polite restraint. The boy recalls Mrs Cash in Rome andMacauley-esque quick wit, while the scene captures refined restraint in a dining room.
The article recalls France's early ideas of a universal meridian dating to 1632 with Louis XIII and Cardinal Tier, noting Cassini’s defection and the 1743 Paris metric commission arc. It also discusses a French experiment mixing strychnine with tobacco to prevent end effects, which failed due to heat destruction or dangerous uncertainty, leading to abandonment of the method.
Excerpts recount the Mississippi as an alive independent river of immense scope and cultural impact. Observers praise its power and beauty while urging reverence for its role in American identity and education.
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