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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1886
Page
2
Poem urges calm acceptance of time and gentleness. It contrasts fighting or fretting with peaceful living and joy, advising grace as one grows older. The verse appears from the Detroit Free Press.
A writer recalls Achille Meurtrier, a bluff strongman who boasted of strength yet lived as a devoted son and companion to his mother. Observing him in a modest Paris suburb, the narrator discovers a gentler side as Meurtrier quietly tends to family duties before reasserting a heroic image after a brisk office morning.
A collage of curiosities from Leamington Utah to St Petersburg and Smyrna. It mentions a petrified head, vermilion eggs from Iowa hens, 1772 college rules, citrate of silver in lifeboats, and a willow tale tied to Pope and Revolution era Virginia. Market prices from mobile 1865 Confederate currency appear miscued.
A collage of brief items recounts poppy cultivation for opium in Bengal with field steps from sowing to drying. Also quoted are humorous vignettes about social miscellany, a bouquet of everyday anecdotes, and light misadventures at a barber shop and a school.
A cash bookkeeping man argues that prices have fallen since 1860s levels, noting cheaper trousers, suits, shoes, shirts, and books and asking what happens to the savings. The dialogue contrasts then and now with references to panic 1873 and art decoration of 1876, ending with Queen Marguerita visiting charitable asylums.
The narrator recalls a painful haircut when the mill buzz saw worker was injured. A cousin's nephew tried trimming with dull shears, leaving hair chopped in some spots and clumped in others. The result looked so bad the speaker felt they could die.
Sailors recount a haunted ship on a perilous Liverpool voyage with a violinist supercargo who vanished, and a Cape Cod captain haunted by a doomed bark crew. A dying old seaman prophesies the vessel will sail in harbor to claim him, witnessed by a specter-like arrival at dusk.
The Altany New York Express reports the Brooklyn Bridge Coasting Club unveiled the biggest bob-sleigh yet. The 45 foot long maroon sled with gold trim features a single center runner, two brakes, nickel plated tillers, and a pivot design to avoid turning. John M. Holler devised the steering chain over two tooth-nails, with iron guards along the plane to protect riders.
The Boston Transcript critiques Americans displaying coats of arms on carriages and stationery, noting many lack heraldic knowledge. It argues real heraldry demands study and mocks mismatched English terms and symbols used by self styled armigers. It urges harsher penalties for those displaying arms without rightful title.
A Civil War era tale recounts Colonel J of the One Hundred and Eighth and his strict foraging discipline. A soldier named Omar is caught with a loaded haversack of meat and serves a meal from the colonel's mess. The breakfast setup turns into a chaotic, humorous scene as Omar teases the colonel by eating fried dog, prompting a doglike uproar from the officers and a final end to secondhand foraged meat in the mess.
The Atlanta Constitution reports amused coverage of Minister Anderson of Copenhagen who greeted the queen by shaking her White Wand and sat beside her. He spoke in Danish and inquired about the old man and the children, inviting her to share a soda. The piece defends his informal approach as genuine American tact under a stiff monarchy.
A Cleveland Leader report notes about 80 000 traveling salesmen in the United States with average expenses of 1500 dollars and salaries near 1000 dollars, totaling around 200 million annually. It highlights the road's change toward experienced workers and higher pay. The item then mentions that Colorado has sixty seven dividend paying mining companies.
A collage of quips and jokes from various papers including the New York Journal and Brooklyn Eagle. The snippets poke fun at truth, rest, brass bands, lemonade, equality, campus life, architecture, patience and married life with brief dialogues and cartoons.
The article describes Mexican workers and families in a frontier city, detailing dress white shirts trousers and shawls and hats, adobes and mud dwellings, and a stark absence of furniture. It notes musings on climate cheap living informal habits and a move toward improved tenements to raise living standards.
The largest pumping engine, built in Philadelphia in 1870 at Merrick's foundry for nearly 1 million dollars, pumps water from the Frielensville zinc mine. Its 110 inch cylinder and 14 inch rod handle a 12 foot stroke, delivering over 20,000 gallons per minute and 80 million daily to a height of 130 feet, with bridges along the North Pennsylvania railroad strengthened for safety.
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