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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1873
Page
4
A scattered collection of wry quips and brief notes touches on music pride and fashion, jokes about nurses and sailors, questions about manners, a rumpled item about a vessel sunk near Halifax, and curious lines reflecting social mores. Names and places appear in passing, with light satire and proverbs shaping the tone.
Eight years earlier in a Kentucky city, Patrick bought sassafras pith on Merrell & Co.s orders and hired hundreds to harvest stems. He shipped by boat, piling pith on the river, building a $35,901 bill. Merrell refused payment. court battles followed, with fires and rot wasting the stock.
A court case involving Merrell and druggists reaches a stalemate as Judge S aft cannot decide. After seven years Patrick pushes for a favorable judgment, but a compromise emerges with both sides agreeing to a thousand dollar settlement, ending the dispute.
Charles Nordhoff argues in June Harper that Alaska, lightly populated and far from civilization, could serve as a penal colony under West Point guidance. He envisions convict labor, self-sufficiency, and reform through disciplined life, with transportation as humane punishment and incentive for reintegration elsewhere.
A Mr. Prex built a self acting sewing machine using a long steel spring that ran wild overnight in Mrs. Peck's sewing setup. The device tore through the room, banged furniture, and fled outdoors where Peck and others battled to restrain it. After dawn the couple replaced it with a new machine, and Peck plans to study mechanics briefly.
Greenland snow skates are wooden frames six to ten feet long and five to six inches wide with upside down sealskin underneath. A boot fitting loop and a leather strap secure the wearer, enabling quick speed on snow. Prices range from about 15 to 20 dollars, with a rare Copenhagen pair costing 230 rix-dollars or about 115 gold.
The article cites a physician’s controversial meningitis regimen using turpentine applications, quinine, bromide, and lax calomel purges, alongside cautions against early opiates. It also notes a Tennessee paper describing meningitis symptoms and course, then a satirical finale about a gambler’s wife and a card table.
The 77 year old French president Thiers maintains a strict routine. He rises at five, receives visitors from seven to nine, and holds ministerial audiences through the day. Saint-Hilaire and Louis guide correspondence, meals feature three dishes, and late evenings include calls from Calmon the Seine prefect.
A Washington gambler's wife at White Sulphur Springs Virginia endures social ostracism from local elites. She confronts the ladies, denouncing their exclusion based on her husband’s gambling, asserting equal birth education and character, and noting the arrogance toward her regardless of status.
A page of pithy maxims humorously misspelled and voiced by Josh Billings. It skewers pride and poverty, stubbornness, pretension, and social foibles with playful slang and sharp observations on humanity and manners. The piece blends satire with folk wisdom on listening, truth, and politeness.
A historical overview explains how stereotyping replaced hand typesetting, enabling up to fifty to sixty thousand copies per hour. It details the paper mold method for plates, the drying time, and the cost savings from reduced type wear. The piece notes editors and printers work late to prepare copy, with plates ready in about twenty minutes once forms are prepared.
An atmospheric explainer describes the heavy diving gear and procedures. It details layered garments, copper helmet and weighty lead ballast, lifeline telegraphing, air supply, and tendon watching by divers and tenders. It notes the diver’s weight is around seven hundred pounds yet movements beneath water resemble surface ease. It ends with commercial notices for life insurance and cathartic pills.
The June issue highlights Uncle Dick's Legacy ending chapters, Lidden Treasures, and Life on an Island preview for July by I Helen C Weeks with a subscription push. Also promoted are Arthur’s Illustrated Home Magazine and Curepren’s Journal offers, plus an extended ad for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a summer tonic addressing debility and heat laxity.
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