03 Apr 1885
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Newspaper
Springfield Globe Republic
Location
Springfield, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1885
Page
1
The ad touts bold discounts on hats, shirts, and outerwear with colors in black brown and blue. It notes low prices on sea east window items, umbrella garments, and several suit styles, highlighting limited quantities and upcoming Friday price drops. Dresses, gloves, and hosiery also feature in the bargain lineup.
From New York April 3 General Grant remains under careful observation as doctors report a quieter night. Rev Dr Newman and family gather, while hypodermic brandy aids throat healing. Grants acknowledged prayer with a brief blessing to wife and children, amid ongoing hopes for revival and a return to service.
General Grant is comfortable as remedies help his throat and appetite returns. The Louisville conference opens with Bishop Bowman presiding. Committees are named for district journal, benevolent funds, and Freedmen's Aid. Communications from church leaders are referred to committees. An adjournment follows a benediction. A German resident woman suffers injuries in a stair accident. doctors attend. The article adds trivia on eavesdropping origins and notes global banking, cork bricks, and Masonry history.
New York reports General Grant is weaker this morning and may be gravely ill. Dr Shandy is arriving as Grant requests burial in Washington and officials discuss arrangements. In Weynsoros, friends say Sheridan will handle details with ceremonies planned for Washington and possible delayed service as conditions allow. Ella Dare's verse closes the piece with reflections on loss and endurance.
A tale recalls Pranks by Lord Aylesford involving a bashful parson stopping at Packington. Joe travels to London, deceives the parson with a staged wife claiming to be Marian, the scene erupts with shock, and the plan collapses as the curate flees. The incident sparks debate among guests about the woman and the joke's fate. The piece then shifts to a broad survey of stimulants and alcohol use across cultures, noting how wine, tea, tobacco, coffee, opium, and other beverages shaped societies from America to Asia and Africa, with remarks on historical consumption patterns.
The desire for stimulants, especially alcohol, is nearly universal and deeply ingrained. Wine ranks beside bread as a staple, reflected across cultures from Euphrates to Dover, with strong ties to agricultural and social life in many nations.
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