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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1891
Page
4
An obsolete style poem fragment describes a diver and sea pearls. The narrator notes the diver's futile search and the sea’s cold swirls as the pearls vanish. Edward Lucas Whit is invoked in a cryptic title line.
A mariner recalls a ghostly night in the Indian Ocean near the Mozannieque Channel. A strange ship, seen at moonrise, sank after striking an unseen rock, leaving scattered wreckage and no bodies found.
A schooner encounters a mysterious dhow shadowing them at night in the Indian Ocean. The crew fears a spirit ship and keeps muskets ready as the dhow shadows them and tests their nerve before slipping away toward Sunda. The terror lingers after dawn.
A collage of oddities includes an American medical diploma legal note in England, tall sequoias in California, salt lake evaporation in the Sandwich Islands, haunted New York rentals, and France's many learned societies. Also mentions New York to Calcutta routes, U S Treasury silver stock needs, deer grazing in Camas Prairie Idaho, and a Boise hunting claim, plus a Chicago population walking line 749 miles long.
The Detroit Free Press asks if jet perennially popular and collures worn curly are back. It highlights fur cloaks, astrakhan braiding, tassels, velvet mantles, unplucked plum hair tones, patent train carriers, heavy felt hats, feather sashes, tight skirts, tucked fabrics, stamped velvets, rope belts, and bow knots. It ends noting elegant women avoid long street skirts.
Coroner Jenkins held an inquest yesterday on a man who attempted to whip his mother in law while intoxicated. Burglars stole the year’s receipts from the Billville post office including stamps envelopes and tape. A Sunday incident at the Waterbury church caused injuries and a deacon to die from a neck hold. The paper notes insurance and comic mishaps, ending with a line about the Constitution.
A Detroit Free Press extract notes crude political proverbs on ethics in voting and statesmanship. It mocks candidacy arrogance and the danger of selling out while highlighting the distance between Washington and daily life. The piece quips about secrecy and how progressives view women voters and reform.
Hatred is a fire that burns yet consumes not. Love tests define character as meeting and overcoming difficulties. Time lost cannot be recovered. It is easier to conform than to walk alone. The first test of love is willingness to suffer without complaint. Distrusting others ruins friendship.
timetable details show departures from New York Foot of Liberty Street and connections to Newark Plainfield and Bloomsburg areas. Listed are times for weekday and Sunday trains, with arrivals to Easton Allentown Harrisburg Reading Wilkes Barre and Mauch Chunk routes.
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