16 Mar 1893
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Newspaper
Sumner Gazette
Location
Sumner, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1893
Page
1
The Sumner Gazette presents a clipped verse dialogue in which a speaker asks his partner what restless thought keeps her head bowed in prayer during Christmas time. The dialogue playfully muses about possible gifts from bonnet to marquis ring and even elegant English horses, probing for a response.
A jeweler and a wealthy passenger share a train car as two strangers discuss a dazzling diamond and a wife’s jewels. A fake detective named John P Smith is pulled into a hotel caper where professional thieves use disguises to steal Lady Catherine's miniature and emeralds, leading to a dramatic reversal and a profitable outcome.
A station agent wrote corpse on a dead-body ticket to Chicago. The traveler, lively despite the ruse, demanded his fare and refused to travel as cargo. The conductor threatened encasement, the man balked, then settled in as a live passenger amid amused bystanders. Also notes a temperance tale of a boy who shoots a drunken stepfather, later becoming a naval petty officer.
A leading farming journal argues that farmers must adopt business education, including bookkeeping, to succeed. It contends no occupation requires method and accuracy more than farming, urging young farmers to attend at least one term at a business university to gain invaluable principles for effective farm economy.
Two men meet at an Austrian spa and hear a tale of a banker in New York. A missing husband writes from the West, resumes a low salary at a New York bank, and a Vienna wife learns of a possible fortune via cables. The clerk P receives seventy five dollars monthly to prove his virtue.
A quotation from Lyon Playfair in the North American Review contemplates frugality and transformation. It describes ink made from beer barrel hoops, tinker shavings, horse hoof parings, rags, and blue dye revealing courtly dress, with port wine dregs used as seidlitz powder. It muses on nature’s economy and fitting purpose.
Robert Thompson of the Northeast Coast Engineers and Shipbuilders Association notes American built ships average eighteen years while Italian vessels average twenty seven years. The Maritime Register questions the table’s value as shipbuilding shifts to steel and iron, with French Dutch German and British lifespans listed as twenty, twenty two, twenty five, and twenty six years respectively. A Europe returnee cites a seamen superstition about couples on bridal tours aboard ships portending storms, recounting a Canadian steamer hurricane incident where mutiny was quelled by a captain armed with revolvers.
The coronach or mourning chants linger in remote districts of Scotland and Ireland. Laments mix with remonstrances to the departed for leaving friends and relatives. In old country areas, professional mourners once common are still found though less in demand.
Farmers and wives gathered in Manchester as State Grange members, shown to be bold and intelligent. The piece urges Grangers to demand seats and action in legislature, improve highways, and organize political meetings for practical reforms. It also briefly notes Eskimo swimming habits and Arctic dangers witnessed by Peary’s expedition.
A magazine-like mix surveys petty gossip versus virtue, notes on restraint in speaking ill, and recalls a humorous scene where a Moorish Khalifa cheers the Star Spangled Banner. It also details simple milk analysis techniques, including weighing, evaporation, and solids not fat comparisons.
A New York Ledger piece criticizes lip biting as a vanity causing deformity and urges teaching facial repose to children. It cites streetcar scenes of girls trying for dimples and mocks, then shifts to a column on peer cruelty in schools from American Teacher, urging teachers to understand children and curb playground torment.
A decree by Austrian courts holds concealment of a bride’s true age sufficient to void a marriage. An Austrian baron secured an annulment after his wife pretended to be five years younger at their wedding. This rare interpretation could affect civilized nations and challenges prior views on women’s age concealment. The piece also notes quips about trivial matters and charitable theatrical companies.
A Youth's Companion tale tells of Hetty a girl in an Eastern city who saw water workers and a thirsty crew, then sold coffee at two cents a cup from a pail. Her enterprise drew rough men to drink coffee, quieted their oaths, and even impressed their foreman while teaching a gentler street mood.
A compilation of religious maxims on sin virtue and devotion appears as a devotional rundown. It warns that worldly acts tempt even Christians and stresses unwavering faith in God, humility, gratitude, and consistent church life despite temptations and hypocrisy.
A 19th century style home recipe describes boiling cabbage in salted water with soda to soften its strong flavor. It suggests serving with cream sauce or butter, and proposes mashing with potatoes as a comforting accompaniment. It notes cabbage can be eaten without corned beef or bacon and without vinegar.
The article lists sun and sky indicators for weather forecasts including red sunsets foretelling fair weather, yellow or gray sunsets signaling wet spells, halos around the sun or moon predicting rain, and corona phenomena. It notes halo size and star count as clues to rain timing and mentions a morning halo portending storms.
A famed lecturer once drew crowds with a Socrates talk spread across the country. In a hotel lounge a listener praised it while a smug know-it-all ridiculed the group with a show of supposed wisdom, ending the discussion abruptly. The lecturer, likely globe trotter, similarly roams in the Socrates tradition.
Reports from Ning Pe Missionary Hospital describe a surprising method used by native dentists. A powder is rubbed into the gum near the tooth, and after about two minutes the patient is told to sneeze. The tooth then reportedly falls out, presenting a curious contrast with American or European techniques.
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