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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1891
Page
3
A northern wind scene from a rustic poem describes popping corn by a glowing coal fire. Characters Jona John Bess Nell gather pepper, shell corn, and shake the popper as a moonlit night ushers revelry and a playful gathering.
A dramatic episode unfolds with Coyote-That-Bites after a dawn raid on a Mexican wagon, stealing gold and mescal before succumbing to sleep near the rails. Two rescued children, Dubs and Gay, explore the line, play with the Apache’s gear, and narrowly escape the vengeful pursuer as the mother watches the desert’s stark beauty from the station.
A spring walk near Friedensville, Pennsylvania, leads Dr Roepper to a quartz calamine sample. The find triggers thoughts on the Ueberroth mine and Bethlehem glue works, showing how chance can spark lasting industrial ventures and the need for systematic economic geology training.
The text notes France as the source of early quill toothpicks and mentions the world’s largest factory near Paris producing 30 million quills yearly. It adds the factory shifted from quill pens to a single mill after pens fell out of use and comments on farmers losing many geese to supply quills in the surrounding region.
In St Marie Beauce Quebec two farming families the Rheaumes and Morins each with eight children arranged four sons from each side to marry four daughters from the other, uniting the clans in a single alliance in a Québec parish.
A timid girl named Mand is described by George and Estelle as easily frightened. The text notes a company of women running two factories in Michigan and mentions men allowed to work, with a crude remark about urine.
The article portrays Fanampoana as Madagascar’s forced labor system where government work is unpaid. It describes harsh duties like hauling heavy materials up rugged terrain, with whippings and irons used to enforce labor. It notes family punishment for runaways and hints at social mobility through craft secrecy.
A lunar observer would see the earth about sixty four times larger than the sun and appear blue from the earth's atmosphere. The sun and moon seem equal in size from Earth, while the earth would dominate the moon's view with eighty times its diameter surfacing as a vast blue disk. The blue tint results from the earth's atmosphere affecting light and space beyond.
The New York Sun reports that thousands of women in New York City turn shopping into a profession. During the rush season near holidays and before summer, some earn up to 200 dollars a week, typically using their own funds to secure bargain sales and then fill orders from private stock, pocketing the difference between regular and bargain prices.
In a playful exchange, Miss Peterby explains she cut an item from the paper to persuade her father and brothers to quit drinking for New Year’s. The dialogue ties the whisky suggestion to a sober resolve and a humorous family moment as told in Texas Siftings.
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