11 Dec 1879
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Newspaper
Southport Times
Location
Southport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1879
Page
1
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps writes of rekindled life in a cold room where breath and fire awaken warmth. A vivid exchange sings of desire as ashes settle and embers glow, suggesting a gift for building fires between lovers amid dim violet light.
On Christmas Eve Laurette Lyon travels by cab to Stoke Bishop to visit an old friend. A rough cabman and a mysterious stranger threaten her, but the tall man turns out to be Herbert Lindsay, her vanished fiancé. They reunite, wed a month later, and sail for Australia.
A collection of kitchen guidance on pastry making with shortening ratios and butter work, plus fruit pies and pies with lemon and beef fillings. Also includes numerous quirky proverbs and humorous snippets about manners, wit, and social behavior from a period newspaper page.
A Detroit prison inmate known as Jim, once a dangerous man with a life sentence, undergoes a striking change after a visiting young girl offers a kiss. He lifts her with tenderness on stairs, then blushes and tears appear as he is moved, suggesting a hopeful turn away from revolt and trouble.
E B Walker the statistician for the New York Produce Exchange estimates the 1879 U S wheat harvest at about 425 million bushels after reviewing authoritative reports. Minnesota spring wheat falls to 28 million from 40 million. Domestic use plus seed accounts for 250 million, leaving 175 million for export with Europe taking 160 million and other ports 15 million. European shortfall raises demand if affordable, with two thirds going to France and the United Kingdom.
A London Medical Record note cites Horace Dobell’s method from Qoughs Col ds and Consumption. The plan uses ammonia morphine emulsion doses every three hours and nightly cold water therapy with blankets, plus a second night colocynth, limiting total doses to twelve unless relapse prompts six more doses.
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