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Newspaper

Plainfield Courier

Location

Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America

Date

Dec 05, 1891

Page

3

Fragmentary Lines Echo Quiet Morning Doubt

Fragmented OCR text evokes a night and morning contrast with doubt as a thorn in old delight. Readable phrases hint at longing and time, but specifics and proper nouns are absent.

Pere Severin and the Confessional Secret

In Saint Chrysostom's cathedral Pere Severin counsels a distraught penitent, a worldy woman confessing to him as a priest. She reveals a past marriage and a forbidden love, finally exposing that the priest is her long-lost husband Philipp, to whom she seeks forgiveness and he shows mercy. The scene ends with the Marquise witnessing the vulnerable moment.

Jay France Pere Severin Alweria Dahomey Morocco Christ Paria Pere Saverin Phillipe Sflent Phillipp Marquise du Monceau Monlachey Isobel

Lean Men Big Eaters Observed by Restaurant Manager

A Philadelphia Inquirer passage quotes a restaurant manager noting thin men eat large quantities of solid foods, while fat men favor soups puddings beer water and vegetables. Marie Jansen trains on a roast beef diet avoiding water bread potatoes and sweets.

Marie Jansen Philadelphia Inquirer

Fortune or superstition in a five-cent coin tale

A Chicago Tribune excerpt relays a man who claims a found coin on Monday morning brought luck after he later became business manager and married, only for the marriage to end as the merchant vanished with another man. The clipping also notes a hen in Lebeo Me reveals a long-mocked pin.

Starpson Polatz Chicago Tribune Sixth Street Cheyboygan Chicago Cincinnati Buffalo Sandwich Islands Islands ePity Franklin T.— Holmes Ph Waldo Emerson Carlyle Goldsmith Isaac Newton Apple

The Great Chinese Wall and Curious Animal Tales

A column recounts a talking dog tale from Detroit Free Press about a dog that swam vast distances and kept returning home. It also summarizes Chi boang ti’s early Chinese wall epic, its builders, and the wall’s fate, noting Marco Polo’s overlooked mentions and a London Times debate on the wall’s existence.

Detroit Free Press Chi-boang-ti China Christ Marco Polo London Times Cuba Thies

Paganini's Shoe Violin Mystery and Sitka Dogs Immunity

A Paris sale highlight features Paganini's shoe violin turned into a refined instrument, linked to a 1834 mystery and letters. The piece notes Sitka's vast dog population and unprecedented hydrophobia immunity, plus a church anecdote about a slow hymn rendition in Berkshire.

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