22 Feb 1889
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Newspaper
Salem Times Register
Location
Salem, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1889
Page
1
A compact column mixing household tips with new cake recipes and domestic concerns. The piece mentions temperance themes, care for children, and general advice on managing home life and health. It also references domestic servants and dress fashions in a period-appropriate voice.
Rose Rossiter confronts Fred Evarts and Nellie Frost at a village farm party where a false engagement rumor and warned jealousy swirl. John Rossiter, enraged by Infidelity, contemplates punishment as Rose battles heartbreak, secrecy, and a hidden confession amid festive revelry.
A satirical dialogue reveals editors and foremen debating cuts for a series of articles about figures from Queen Victoria to Emperor William. The exchange lampoons matching portraits from various ads and past illustrations to illustrate unrelated biographical items.
A political pitch claims a convention nominee will be elected as Chief Magistrate, backed by public endorsement of Electric Bitters. It touts cures for malarial fevers, headaches, constipation, and general liver and kidney troubles. The ad promises satisfaction or money back, priced at 50 cents and one dollar at W T Younger's drug store.
In Chagglesville the postmaster pleads for calm as a man at the window presses for details about mail arrivals. The postmaster laments Republican efforts to move the post office, insisting the topic is distressing and asking visitors to leave.
In Pultneyville, Wayne County, New York, Joshua Granger, after forty years of living under a concealed past, vanishes when a West Virginia inquiry surfaces his former desertion. Once a respected citizen, he crumbles under fear of exposure and slips away, becoming a nameless fugitive again. The tale reads like a note on American fiction’s recurring themes.
Henry Caldwell of Sinking Creek recalls a 1860s anecdote from Monroe County Virginia where Col J C McDonald of the Twenty second Virginia Regiment denies his troops stole a hog, joking that his men never let the hog squeal during killing. The tale is offered with a moral on environment and conduct.
A county report notes the Arnett law drives colored tenant farmers from farms as leases end. White landlords replace them with others, leaving no colored families in local school districts. The measure, meant to help, harms the colored community.
Rev W S Marquis denounces social dances as improper in a sermon at Broadway Presbyterian Church. He argues dances mingle sexes and foster intoxication of motion and music, creating an atmosphere where closeness and surveillance strip away natural modesty and decorum.
The article urges reducing the surplus by using Dr. King's New Discovery at the first signs of illness. It claims a marked drop in mortality from consumption and invites readers to obtain a free bottle at W. T. Younger's drug store. A note warns that strong words can lead to confrontations.
A philosopher argues that silence is wit and claims women, generally, are not witty. The remark contrasts with common views on humor and intelligence.
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