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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1868
Page
3
A plain, clever man in Gray believes weather changes hinge on the moon. Farmer Gray shares his faith through dull May rain, later predicting thaw and droughts. The tale mocks folk reasoning as the moon governs all weather shifts.
A cautionary tale for children about a girl named Little Scowly who craves freedom to do as she pleases. A fairy named Love grants escapes to fairy land, where excess freedom leads to vanity, indulgence, and Disappointment. Returned home, she abandons her scowl and learns true happiness comes with restraint.
The Copperhead paper chronicles a call for a National Conservative Soldiers convention linked to the New York Copperhead gathering on July 4. It casts doubt on leaders like Granger Slocum Valpine and Miles O Reilly, warns soldiers against spoils politics, and praises Ulysses Grant while urging loyal North Army support.
In 1868 Nasby narrates a chaotic delegate selection for the New York convention. Corners leaders quarrel over bids and per diems, Bascom abandons, Pogram and Gavitt refuse, and bittersweet intrigue unfolds with hints of bribery and factional plots. Nasby ends by declaring his plan to pursue Chase and negro suffrage while seeking to exit Old Party disputes.
A Cincinnati Limes report describes a 22 year old Parkersburg marble dealer with about 3000 dollars in property who escaped from Columbus Central Lunatic Asylum after two months confinement. He denies insanity, seeks recovery of his Chicago property, and calls for stricter standards to prevent improper confinement. The note also reports Augusta Nevada as Central Pacific’s new station with a 16 mile branch to Virginia and Carson cities and progress on grading toward the Humboldt river, aiming to complete in 1808.
An Italian union article urges U S Italians to plant mulberry trees and resume silk production. It cites Italy’s export needs, potential profits, and the cooperative method to rear silkworms, seed, and eggs, stressing rapid spring planting and careful seed storage.
An editorial urge promotes American silk seed cultivation as Italy’s disease-stricken silkworm stock shifts westward. It argues the United States offers suitable climates for mulberry cultivation, outlines past attempts, costs, and the need for American producers to focus on seed quality for European buyers, while noting historical trials in Georgia, South Carolina, and New England.
A miscellany of household agriculture tips covers horse care and light, root dipping before planting, curing remedies, dairy trends in New York, feeding working animals, oil-meat for coats, a strawberry shortcake recipe, pest control exhortations against millers, glove care with camphene, cold remedies, and livestock statistics across Europe and the United States. The piece blends practical how-tos with broad farm population data and notes shifting livestock trends.
Prof. Agassiz recalls a solar eclipse near Rio and the panic among frigate-birds and gannets as daylight vanishes then returns. The narrative ends with a vermicelli soup recipe using four pounds meat and vermicelli boiling in a celery scented broth.
The tale from England recounts two sisters aged eight and fourteen who fell into a deep pool while walking with a governess. The elder sister rescued the younger, was submerged herself, then a brave governess, twenty one, plunged in and kept the sisters afloat for fifteen minutes until help arrived. Both girls and the party were saved.
The owened editorial notes the movement for Judee ce collapses after lingering too long to win within two months. It criticizes demoralized party mood and repudiation of Chase as the party shifts away from abolitionist ideals, citing reactions from the Chicago Times and New York World and calling the stance a heavy, unwanted dose.
A vintage promotional excerpt extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a universal preventive and remedy for digestive woes, dyspepsia, nervous distress, fever, and ague. It claims superior efficacy to quinine and urges early use to fortify the system against epidemics and endemic ills.
An 1890s style mail order ad promises a package containing 34 QWare Ane letters, 12 envelopes, 1 penholder, 6 indestructible vena, and jewelry valued from 40 cents to 10 dollars. Each hundred orders contains a ten dollar greenback. Postage requires 30 cents and two stamps. address Woolridge & Co., Cincinnati, Ohio.
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