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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1885
Page
2
The poem describes Christmas chimes in a solemn sky and winds echoing angel songs. Good will, peace, and joy spread from the Child's birth to all, from peasant huts to palaces, with mothers, aged men, and the sad finding renewed cheer.
A Christmas Eve tale follows Mrs. Martin and her two children in a small cottage. Facing poverty after a failed family rift, they cling to faith in Santa Claus. A wandering brother, moved by love, overhears the children and returns with gifts and reconciliation, lifting the family from want on Christmas morning.
A New York World account describes Old Punkinhead telling a crowd in a road-house about a risky hotel stay. He details a misfit bed, a bathwater soaking, and sleeping upside down to survive. The tale ends with a vow to avoid hotels and avoid sleeping upside down again.
A stock broker reassures his wife that brokers are not all dissipated or dying young, while a Boston Gazete joke hints brokers live risky lives. The piece closes noting that 108 years ago Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation as the colonies’ path to independence.
A column of home cures and cautions noting onions improve digestion when soaked, onion juice eases bee stings, salt and water treat hair loss, cold water cures for catarrh, turpentine for lockjaw cuts or cramps, and turpentine its cautions. Emphasizes household remedies and cautions for common ailments and injuries.
The piece surveys women’s wear from fur bonnets and long kid gloves to crinoline debates and feather trims. It notes Mary Jefferson Swayze and Miss Cleveland’s circle, a public dress reform in Japan, and the New Orleans Woman’s Club leadership. It also covers weddings, lace heirlooms, and a Paris-inspired fancy dress, with advices on fabrics, collars, and home ornaments.
Corporal James Tanner of Brooklyn recounts after losing both legs at battle the August 30 1862 escape to a farmhouse during a Confederate assault. He recalls prisoners taken, a dying German helper’s joke about fitting him to a bureau, thirst and thirst, and a drummer singing to revive the men. A wounded fellow shares apples from his blouse pockets before dying. Tanner compares a rough but heroic drummer to Sir Philip Sidney, and says he would rather stand in the drummer’s shoes than in many with higher rank.
Captain Sterling of the schooner Mercury recounts the rescue of John Anderson washed overboard during a midnight storm. A rogue sea carried him about fifty feet from the vessel before he clung to a port quarter fender and was hauled back aboard amid a snow squall and heavy undertow.
One of the Shore brothers, famed horse trainers, is daily breaking a two-year-old elk team in Denver. Captured about a year ago in North Park, they are nearing readiness to trot a hundred miles daily with a light wagon. The trainer notes elk native gait is a trot and they resist mounted hunters. He believes the animals will soon appear in Denver streets as a novel and fast driving spectacle. The Shore stables sit in the old West Denver jail building.
Fragmentary lines describe a fair woman with blue eyes and ruby lips. The text references autumn, danger, and distant care, with unclear phrases and stray, musical wording.
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