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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1873
Page
4
A collection of pithy sayings and moral reflections spanning marriage, religion, time, and social behavior. It includes quips on air and water, temperance, patience, and folly, with multiple wry observations about life, time, and repentance.
A letter from Ionia Michigan describes La Mountain’s fatal ascent on the Fourth. The balloon inverted between Topes and the crowd. The car tore apart and La Mountain, clutching the basket, tried a parachute tactic but died in the fall. The body, crushed to pulp, lay publicly then returned to Brooklyn Michigan.
A Texas Methodist preacher Paul Denton hosted a barbecue with promises of good liquor. A bystander accused him of lies, and the preacher revealed a spring of pure water, praising its life giving and beauty from crystal dew to rainbow refracted light.
A charged appeal denounces alcohol as a demon drink that harms the vulnerable and brings despair. The speaker urges friends to speak out and expunge it from society, framing it as a scourge rather than a mere liquid.
A Saratoga Paper excerpt recounts a family enduring seven children with whooping cough. The narrator recalls sleepless nights, bruises from accidents, and a social chorus of sympathy and jokes about the season. Grandmother, aunts, and Samantha are among the familiar figures in the humorous melodrama.
The W. Y. Observer questions the proliferation of honorary degrees and defends the Chartered College prerogative to confer degrees. It argues that true merit should be recognized without lowering standards and notes the difference between examined degrees and honorary ones.
Descriptions of a waist seam separating dress for linen blouses and a redingote polonaise suited for cooler wear. Notes on linen dusters for journeys, buff linen collars, and paper cuffs. Also provides a muffin recipe using flour milk lard yeast and soda with baking instructions.
The passage notes McMahon’s increasing hostility toward Henri Rochefort, with Parisian fear of the caustic journalist. It claims Rochefort did little to deserve banishment and suggests his treatment by the Empire was also harsh.
A compilation of household curatives covers worm treatments and skin remedies using sulfur milk croton oil and bay rum. It explains how to make leather soft with glycerine and offers a damp wall cure with Castile soap and alum. It also details pumpkin seed preparations for tapeworm and pine for hydrophobia symptoms and seaside fair notes from St. Louis biology exhibits.
The article warns against using animal manures on fruit trees and grape vines, noting reduced fruit quality and weaker wood. It recommends leaves, garden weeds, chip manure, forest mould, and especially wood ash for potash. A fall leaf mulching followed by spring soil incorporation and garden clippings improves both quality and quantity of fruit on clay soils with good drainage and exposure.
A. Contemporary ridicules a proposed two day execution method for potato bugs combining a guillotine a patent report reading and an automatic finger with poison on the tongue. The piece mocks the idea and imagines absurd court delays and protests by pests. It notes the method shows a lack of understanding of insect life and references Captain Jack and Mouocs.
A Country Gentleman writer reports planting pumpkins for dairy cattle. From a peck of seed sown in corn-field gaps a dairy of nine cows produced steady summer milk and excellent butter. Six heifer calves grew fat, cows surpassed many slaughter cattle. Cows yielded about six pounds of butter weekly with milk and cream for a sixteen-member household. Pumpkins were fed chopped in mangers morning and night, with beets carrots and corn planned for winter.
A furious passenger hands a carpet bag filled with revolvers to a baggage smasher who has ruined him before. The bag is hurled and stomped, six shots fire as the car travels, wounding the smasher who rides the platform in fear, vowing a clash when the owner calls with his check.
Selections promote Dr Pierce Pleasant Purgation for colds fevers and inflammatory attacks with pellets. Other items advertise medical circulars from Illinois farmers association Pontiac address and pricing. Also claims about King of Blood and Jayne's Alterative with testimonials and sales details.
The July issue offers a strong lineup with S Helen CG Weeks new story Life on an Island and Mary A. Denison continued tale Hidden Treasure. Also included are several original stories and poems. The Little Corporal costs 1.50 yearly and includes two chromos. clubs earn extra incentives. Canvassing outfit priced at sixty cents.
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