Hand and Eye Language In Quiet Stolen Glance
A brief scene depicts a costly gesture as a man presses a woman’s hand and she looks away shyly yet hopeful. He believes her glance will convey unspoken understanding of their mutual interest.
Plainfield Courier in Plainfield, New Jersey
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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1891
Page
3
Lost at Sea Then Picked Up by Whaling Ship
A boy recalls surviving a collision at sea with a coasting schooner, drifting to the Chatham Islands where he built shelter and later found English sovereign treasure worth about £200. A pursuing gunboat and the Grampus helped recover his story and last money cache vanished after a landing party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penshaw
Schopper
South Pacific
Mercory
Father
South America
Chatham Islands
New Zealand
Pangonia
India
Spain
France
Holland
United States
Brazil
N. Y
French cow near Pasadena drank fermenting winery refuse
A Pasadena resident found his cow lying inert near the barn. A vet could not diagnose, a butcher arrived late to bleed the animal, which was later seen eating hay with wobbly legs. Reports mention intoxication from winery refuse and an unrelated speed indicator invention from Decorah Iowa for driver wrist use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasadena
Cal
Nng
Omaha Bea
Decorah
Europe
Munich
Detroit Free Press
Shaking Hands and Japanese Persecution Reexamined
An analysis contrasts casual handshakes with a historic Japanese execution. It notes that polite hand contact can reveal character, while correcting tourist tales of Christians cast from a cliff at Pappenberg. Instead, victims were reportedly hurled into Onsenga’s boiling springs during Shimabara’s rebellion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heather
Japan
Nagasaki
Pappenberg
Relas
University of
Tokio
Reiss
Shimabara
Onsenga
Onsengi
Kruslu
Oneengs
Buckles shape workers and fashion in eighteenth century England
The piece notes buckles boosted employment in Warwickshire and Staffordshire during the last century. It recalls 1781 fashion for large square buckles and later shift to strings, causing hardship for buckle makers. a 1891 deputation to the Prince of Wales sought relief, promising royal wear but fashion prevailed. It also includes a brief antique armor anecdote and a humorous dialogue from NY Weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warwickshire
Staffordshire
Hutton
Birmingham
Walsall
Wolverhampton
Prince of Wales
George V
Carlton House
England
Sydney
Modern Philosophy Jumbles Wit and Warnings
A mixed slate of witty maxims and odd facts from various papers comments on drunkenness reform and wisdom. Mentions Dr J A McDonald claiming strychnine as a cure in large doses and notes a 103 year old tobacco chewer William Sweeney of Catasauqua Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg Dispatch
N. Y. Herald
Galveston
Atchison Globe
New England
William Sweeney
Catasraqua
J. A. McDonald
Chicago
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Chicago Herald
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THE
Elk Wood
West Second Street
Park Avenue
Plainfield, N. J
J. B. Miller
Cotati
Votil Tharasay
Hest
Cape de Cranberries
New
Alouts
Bidet Welen
Paris
Atze Cooper
Cates, E Growers Association
West Front Street
IC. M. Ulrich
Ourer
Crescent
Ty T
Hallock & Davis
Plainfield Produce CO
Dealers
Ratitan Mills
North Avenue
R. J. Shaw
Front Street
Akl
Mason’s Materials
Miller Building
Deets
D. J. Boice
Laing
Madison Avenue
Wallace V. Miller
Prop’r
C. Dickinson
Real Estate & Insurance
J. T. Vail
North
J. Frank Mundy
Equitable Life Assurance Society
de Broadway
New York
East Front Street
Accident and Pire Insurance
M M. Dunham
East Frost Steeer
C. A. Brown
American Steam Laundry
Aubur
H. W. Marshall
A. M. Griffen
East Front ST
O. M. Dunham’s
West Pront Street
J. Coyne
East Fourth ST
York
Somerville and
Easton
Mal
Trenton
Philadelphia
MAILA
R. x
BR. Pope, P.M
John Johnston
South Avenue
John N. Schenck
Manning Ave
Plain Field
John H. Sayres
New Goods
East Pront Street
Coal & Wood
Lehigh Coal
Ffice
Eleatric Light Station
A. D. Cook & Bro
Mr. Leal
Mondey
John Leal
Plainfeld
Collier, Optician
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