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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1891
Page
4
A playful couplet about a plum buyer and seller, contrasting cheap and high prices. It humorously notes that when prices are low people are kind but when prices rise they condemn the poor buyer as foolish. The piece uses whimsical rhymes to poke at market behavior.
In Fort Badwin on a sun baked slope near the Gila the garrison led by Captain Sigourney faces Cochise and his warriors in a mounted melee. Mary Sigourney, a minister's daughter, joins the frontier life as the captain's bride and the troopers press the fight against raiding Apaches along bear water and desert mesquite.
Intense Civil War era clash near Baldwin as Cochise leads a large Apache force against a blue garrison. Captain Sigourney is wounded while Mary Sigourney saves him, turning the tide and forcing the attackers to retreat to the hills amid cheers for Captain Upham's wife.
Fragments of the true cross are housed in the Ursuline Convent Cork and the Vatican. One piece, about seven inches long, was sent by Pope Pascal II to Murtagh king of Ireland for Stance Abbey Holy Cross Thurl. Other portions lie in Palestine churches and the Vatican chapel.
Practical advice on pantry care and kitchen safety from the Wousewife era. Tips cover changing boiling water for cabbage, flour odor sensitivity, bread crust storage, damp towels to counter sewer gas, stopping grease fires with salt, coffee pot maintenance, and preserving mutton quality. Additional guidance includes rust removal from flat-iron, dry storage of dishes, trapping soap-suds pests, turpentine for burns, and croup remedies.
A collage of quips and misheard lines from humorous exchanges. Dialogues touch bargain sales with yardage cuts, birthday reminders, theatrical questions, fashion caution, and office mishaps. Brief skits show human foibles and punchy one liners from various papers.
A collage of quotations critiques divorce, industry, and politics from Chicago Globe Boston Transcript and others. Topics range from domestic violence remarks to industrial ships, Chinese victories, anarchist fiction, and winter coal fears in the Northwest.
A collection of witty and curious notes noting topics from royal finance to California oranges. Mentions Queen Victoria paying a private secretary ten thousand dollars a year and housing, a claim of a very young grandfather in Kennebunk Maine, Baron Hirsch’s aid to Russian exiles, and Lake Ontario’s record low water requiring trillions of tons to reach normal levels.
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