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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1873
Page
4
A collage of wry anecdotes and wordplay including lawyers versus doctors, grain elevators and rye whisky, jokes about schoolmasters, counterfeit money tips, and a fable of a dream with the Pope. Names and places appear in brief snippets reflecting a 19th century humorous miscellany.
A critical look at defalcation and pardon culture in the United States. The piece laments lenient punishment, praises public sympathy for released convicts, and denounces charitable pardon networks that let thieves and forgers back into society. It contrasts harsh crime labels with euphemisms like foraging, levied, or confiscated.
A July Galaxy excerpt critiques how reporters and society euphemize crime. It denounces glamorizing thieves and the crook's "good" image, noting how terms like defalcation and operations cloak violence and robbery as playful or heroic.
A detailed guide explains making preserved bouquets wreaths and crosses from white flowers and delicate tints. It outlines selecting fresh blooms, replacing leaves if kept intact, melting high quality paraffin, dipping petals or brushing to form a transparent protective coat, and using waxed leaves or moss as background.
A satirical piece from Ehi Kate Thorn in the New York Weekly urges readers to wear loud clothes to church to gain attention and social status. It mocks pious behavior by describing disruptive acts such as turning in seats, sniffing perfumes, cracking mints, and staring at others.
A New York paper claims 7000 to 8000 Italian children are kidnapped and held as virtual slaves in U S cities, sold at private auctions for 100 to 400 dollars for boys and 100 to 500 for girls, with two violinist girls in Wall Street costing 1400. Since April, 317 arrived at New York port. The piece treats the sensational tale as unlikely and notes the children’s supposed music and behavior while questioning what happens to them after growing up.
An Irish physician was summoned to examine the body of an Irishman slain by countrymen. After examining, he stated in the body that the man was so ill that if he had not been murdered he would have died half an hour earlier.
A collage of aphorisms on aging, honesty, virtue, curiosity, and human folly attributed to Josh Billings. Remarks celebrate living with purpose while critiquing laziness, covetousness, vanity, and insincerity, with pointed observations on friendship and reputation.
In the furnace room broken glass fragments fuse with alkalies and sand. Blowers shape ten pound masses of plastic glass into cylinders using long blow-pipes, then cut and flatten cylinders and plate glass by rolling on a iron table. Cylinder glass dominates, crown glass faded. plate glass remains costly and suited to mansions. Springfield Republican notes the progress and varying costs of glass production.
Max Addler notes Moyer designed a patent inflated gossamer bustle for ladies. Mrs. Moyer tested it by tying the device under her dress as gas filled. She rose skyward, drifted near the earth, and collided with a church steeple, exploding the bustle and costing $600 to rescue her. Moyer plans to sell the patent cheap. The anecdote ends with a witticism about hands in pockets.
A compilation of remedies and DIY tips covers first aid applications for bites and stings, skin markings and ink removal, varnish and paint mixtures, patching boots, mustard plasters, and natural tonics. It also includes notes on hygienic practices and a cultural sketch of the Kaw people near a railway, with reflections on tribal history and language.
A frontier sketch describes the Kaw reservation near Emporia Kansas with seven hundred Kaw people living on vast lands. The piece portrays them as dirty and dishonest by stereotype, notes abandoned government stone houses, and recounts a brash rider galloping up to the train amid sleet. A native rider offers a stark window into plains life and resistance to civilization.
A historic endorsement extols Davis Vegetable Pain-Killer as unmatched for rheumatism burns sprains and cholera related ailments. It notes its 1840 introduction and rapid global sales proving its reputation and relief of suffering, while wishing continued prosperity to the proprietors.
The piece promotes National Life Insurance Company offerings at low rates with strong capital and assets, urging applicants to contact Philadelphia for details. It also includes moody, miscellaneous notes on bitters, cures, and medical products such as Allen's Lung Balsam, Dr. Pierce's Pellets, and Trask's Magnetic Ointment.
Hartford readers learn from the Phoenix Life Insurance Company's latest annual statement that policies rose from 1,717 in 1862 63 to 10 527 in 1872 while income climbed to about 3 5 million with net assets near 8 3 million. The article notes the companys in force policies 33 020 worth 71 9 million and a surplus around 1 2 million, asserting strength and public confidence.
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