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Newspaper
The Democratic Press
Location
Eaton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1892
Page
1
A large down town man seeks a shirt from a passing stranger in a humorous tale. The woman kindly lends a linen nightshirt, prompting an amusing chain of events as the tramp disappears to a clothes dealer and a new romance unfolds across a court.
Ola, a rough orphan raised by Jens Oestrud, dreams of shedding his ailed past and changing his skin as Birgit suggests. He leaves for America with traps and a vow to return in five years if Birgit waits, while Birgit clings to hope and watches his departure, promising to wait for a transformed Ola.
The article recounts a Chinese legend about the invention of the fan. Darusi, daughter of the Flowery Kingdom’s mandarin, attends a masked fete and, in defiance of etiquette, tears off her mask and fans her face. Her beauty leads to widespread adoption of the hand fan by both men and women.
A humorous tale from a Yorkshire Folk Talk author about an English bishop sent to Wales to learn Welsh. He hires a native scholar who struggles to explain the language. The bishop finally devises a method and is told to place his episcopal tongue to the roof of the mouth and hiss like a goose.
A New York Herald description follows an elderly man with a grey goatee aboard a Fifth Avenue car, joking about New York’s liberal laws on drinking. He purchases whisky from a fellow passenger, praising the city’s permissive stance while recounting his plan to fill the bottle and celebrate later.
A New York Recorder report describes a thriving market on 7th Avenue where stalls sell second hand shoes. Dealers buy worn pairs for about 40 cents, repair and blacken them, then resell to all classes including young men with limited funds who pay around 75 cents for stylish lookalikes.
Bathing the chest in cold water and rubbing it briskly each morning strengthens the chest. Clean a dirty carpet with eight pails of hot water, a spoonful of ammonia, and scrub. A skin tonic combines Cologne water camphor tincture and benzoin tincture. a few drops in the bath help. For earache use arnica bags dipped in hot whisky, applied over the ear and replaced as needed.
London magistrate Mr Hannay condemned the saying that a policeman may stay outside an Englishman's home when cries or violence occur. He argued the old notion makes outrageous deeds possible and is a foolish principle.
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