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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1891
Page
3
Armenian fire screens become a rage in London and New York society. Fashion notes praise Armenian screens, eye brow and lash trends, silver backed powders, and ornamental hats. The piece blends society gossip with style items and mentions Madame de Barrios and Summers at Richfield Springs.
A Boston Transcript item reports a pedestrian slipping on a banana skin on Beliool Street injuring a leg. It notes spectators rushing to aid, criticism of careless disposal, and jokes about the incident and medical costs. The piece riffs in multiple styles on the mishap and its consequences.
The pope enjoys watching the Vatican gardens as the agricultural school of orphan boys tends the vineyards. Wine from the first harvest is praised and sent to European rulers. A stray editorial fragment and garbled lines follow, mentioning a discomforting incident in Richmond.
A magazine prose piece argues that colleges treat students as independent learners, allowing self regulation while not controlling hours, smoking, or social choices. A Massachusetts lady debates temperance with a witty suitor, who quips about a “jux” and a seminary assembly room to illustrate gendered expectations.
A reader exposes a quirky method to light a cigar using an envelope while riding a carriage. The excerpt then devolves into playful name-choosing verses with altered spellings and mock grand diction attributed to Samuel T. Coleridge in a humorous, antiquated mode.
The report notes unusually good base fishing at Henderson Harbor with bluefish plentiful in Boston Bay and salmon in the Merrimac River, where experts suggest the dam has influenced stock levels. A Gloucester Fresh Water Cove catch includes a diary weight of teen pounds eleven and three quarters. Other sights include a seventeen inch brook trout near Ipswich and a giant eighty five pound catfish near Quincy.
The article surveys men's style with silver scarf-pins and bow-cravat forms, refined pale gray wools, leather gloves in tan shades, and unique walking sticks. It notes dozens of new neckwear tying styles, limited to a handful gaining popularity, plus varied furnishings and bold border details.
Electric heating is promised and an invalid’s sunk goes by electricity. The Western Union Telegraph Company clears over 5 million dollars a year in profits. Brazil and Mexico adopt American locomotive logos on webways. Fort Worth reports an artesian well flowing 864 000 gallons daily, the largest in the world. Cleveland passes gas price cuts to sixty cents per 1000 with city option on gas works. Wheat per head rises in Inala and the U S over seven bushels per head. South Australia in bushels. Charity statistics show about 1 000 000 people wholly or partly dependent on charity annually in the United States. A massive pair of shears shipped from New Castle Pennsylvania weighed forty four tons and went to Middleboro Kentucky.
A miscellany notes a velocity of 2.387 feet per second from a rapid fire gun. It mentions Japanese belief in Maka do and a potato glut in Southern California with five cent sacks. It cites British India population exceeding combined Britain France and Germany, an Albert Lea artesian well spurting minnows, Brooklyn Bridge anchor plates at 28 tons and towers 199 feet high, and the six year mark after the East River wire was first strung.
A fragmentary collection of aphorisms on self reliance morality and social behavior. The lines praise fighting spirit personal responsibility and laughter while warning against greed cruelty and indifference to others. The text reads like a page of moral maxims with scattered punctuation and typographical errors.
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