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Newspaper
The Cincinnati Telegram
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1888
Page
6
A barber offers musings on wartime courage comparing soldiers and nurses, praising nurses at Jacksonville and reflecting on homefront sacrifice. He also riffs on fashion trends like monogrammed stockings and street fakirs selling trinkets amid a rainy city scene.
Readable lists reveal Dr. Hazzard on flute, Judge Caldwell on piano, Judge Longworth on guitar, and Gary Herman on many keys. Others include Bert Baldwin, Bi Higbee, Gabe Miller, Charley Pearce, Wash Porter, Colonel Gano, Dan Brown, John Murphy, Harry Hanover, Lorie Rinkenberger, Ole Ball, the two Chiefs, Tony McCaffery, Captain Potter Dustin, Emil Reisp, Col. Lingh Campbell, Judge Lindeman, Dick Roliner, U S Commissioner Hooper, Coroner Kendirs, and Joe, noted for tambourine work. The piece portrays a city full of amateur musicians across professions.
The piece profiles two aging river captains, Parker and Wise, key figures along the Ohio and Mississippi, detailing their looks, wealth, friendships, and public roles. It also visits Otto Marmet the German coal man, Henry Immenhorst, Lewis Seasongood, Captain William Boone, and jewelers’ leader Major Jim Morgan, painting a portrait of Cincinnati society and river commerce.
A newspaper office plots a dramatic reissue of Lincoln era ideals amid Mississippi unrest. The editorial team blames a missing mailing list for six weeks of no Mississippi distribution and tensions rise over a political press war.
A quirky observer notes how Santa appears differently in shop windows. Children glimpse varying depictions from heavy to pale, with changing smiles and whiskers, as a barber comments on the effect on kids. The scene closes with the narrator leaving to catch a car.
A fragment notes theaters facing oversized fashion bats that block views for patrons. The piece mentions the gadgets as enormous and resembling wash tubs, with some benefit claimed as a clear view of the wearer’s face.
The story recalls Major Morgan mounting a horse lifted three feet high by an elevator. After cautious testing, Morgan swung into the saddle and rode away, his cash and badge gleaming as he appeared an expert horseman.
A fragmentary exchange recalls a need for a plumber at a hotel where the Sellers were present. One speaker asks secrecy and another vows discretion, claiming John Norris struck the city as a pledge of silence.
A杂ged dialogue in a Washington Post style feature recounts hotel bellboys recalling a guest who sought intimate services, highlighting gendered tipping biases and crude comments. Separately, a tale recalls Pay Director Cunningham escorting Miss Seaton, daughter of Washington’s Lord Mayor, to Buckingham Palace for a Royal reception.
A brief instructional note from Chicago Inter Ocean outlines proper waltz technique. It emphasizes posture, disguise of effort, knee bending, foot placement, heel height, and rise and fall timing for graceful motion.
Fragmentary reflection on personal conduct urging honesty kindness frugality and self restraint. It frames virtue as a task for fortitude and ambition and hints at a dialogue about keeping a counterfeited or neglected token of moral effort.
A man in the moon, drunkenly narrates a hallucinatory scene to his wife. She confronts him at the door and, amid surreal visions including Grover Cleveland and a boa constrictor, he collapses unconscious from a last quarter intoxication.
A description of the phonograph showing a wax cylinder powered by a small electric motor, its diaphragm and needle recording vibrations, and the process of replaying sound. It notes similarities to the Edison phonograph and mentions the Mills Building electrical supply and the device’s size.
The Evening Sun notes Russell Harrison stating he admires reporters, signaling a likely smooth transition to life in the White House after March 4. The remark underscores media relations as a theme of the incoming administration.
A garbled Victorian dialogue fragment shows characters addressing a handsome physician and discussing appearances and social routines. The text is unreadable in places, making precise attribution and context impossible.
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