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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1893
Page
4
An English writer cites Chinese foot binding, detailing the lifelong torture of girls whose feet are ligatures as part of a fashion obsession. The piece condemns the practice, highlighting screams, parental consent, and the ills inflicted on millions across China.
A Pittsburgh Dispatch writer recalls visiting Fremont, Ohio in 1884 to meet Gen. Rutherford B. Hayes. Hayes warmly received two Pennsylvania students, showed them his den and skylight, and offered generous hospitality despite dinner plans.
A blend of society sketches and curiosities from Detroit and Philadelphia tabloids notes. It recounts a late night meeting with a girl, wrapping paper thrift wisdom, and a long digression on war tolls and morbid curiosities including an Earl of Essex coffin and Nelson relics.
A San Francisco Chronicle scent page recounts a Noe Street widow sheltering her aging mother by daily sewing, a former mistress of a southern plantation who fled the 1860s upheaval and later reconnected with a freed slave husband in California. The piece juxtaposes literary tidbits and a note on voting counts with a past that spanned Missouri plantations to Salt Lake City.
T W Reynolds of Hobart, aboard the Teutonic after a business trip to England, shares stories of Tasmania. He notes thinning kangaroos, prosperous tin mines, varied minerals, fruit exports to England, and a population of about 150 000 with Hobart around 6 000. He plans to stay in the area another month.
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