01 Mar 1873
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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1873
Page
1
A playful verse recounts a girl buying a tiny bonnet with ribbon, lace, and feather and being humiliated by its echo in church. She hides the bonnet, then learns that every Sabbath service echoes vanity and folly, teaching a moral about humility.
From Modoc country a correspondent chronicles Mary Trigillgus a Boston area teacher whose plan to raise fortune by eclipse glasses ends in ruin as Christian Van Pelt and Ten Eyck turn her idea into a national sales success while she sinks into madness awaiting a self made eclipse fortune and a hollow triumph.
The Evening Post notes that many long-lived people claimed the winter weather was the worst, but records show 1872 ranks unusually wet in England. Rainfall in Sep Dec 1872 totaled 14.04 inches vs 14.98 in 1941 and 18.40 in 1852, with older observers likely wrong and younger ones possibly correct.
A condensed excerpt from Professor Burt G Wilder notes average human brain weight forecasts and compares with elephants and whales. It details gorilla brain size, brain to body ratios in humans and animals, sex differences, age effects on weight, and the limited predictive value of brain size for intelligence.
A lived truth on hands as marks of character. Cleanliness and care for nails matter. a large soft hand can be powerful and attractive. Vanity should not hide hard work which earns honest hands. The best hand is an honest one, welcoming friendship with warmth.
The Nation essay notes the tableland region and Central Asia as historical engines shaping world events. It traces Tartars and their expansion from ninth century raiding to a vast empire spanning China to the Mediterranean, describing their battles and decline under Western science. The piece labels these groups, alongside the Turks, as the great Asian mystery and historic forces beyond Europe.
Caroline Cheseboro dies in Piermont NY and A W Fenno found dead in NY. Julee J L Richmond dies in Champaign IL during court. Ames faces Credit Mobilier criticism as Congress debates expulsions. Reports of mob violence, fires, accidents, and a wide span of political maneuvering follow in Washington and beyond.
Reports outline post office security amendments and a Geneva award distribution bill. Debates cover naval and postal appropriations, Indian contracts, and political disabilities removal. Senate action on Caldwell case and electoral disputes is noted alongside education land grants and territorial school measures.
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