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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1886
Page
2
A fragment from a poet's Biograph, describing aging and ambition. The speaker reflects on lost years and imagined towers, contrasting effort with a city seen in twilight. The autumn wind carries distant bells and a sense of death’s distant roar from the heights.
Mrs. Gerrish frets over her husband Warren’s secretive meetings with Miss Ebbitt and a possible trip to Boston. A thunderstorm, a missing bank book, and Uncle Jabez’s gossip heighten jealousy as Warren returns with a piano and a cordial apology. Miss Ebbitt’s note arrives offering a church organist post in New York.
A long list of household tips covers hair washing with sage tea ink stain removal with milk, fabric and carpet brightening with coffee and salt, cooking beans with saleratus, stove polishing with newspaper and vinegar, tea stain removal with ashes, soft white milk based breads, grease removal with blotting paper, and aging crackers reheated to restore freshness. It includes potato tests for freshness, a Bishop’s bread recipe, sponge bleaching methods, a fruit dessert with apples and almonds, petroleum jelly for hand cleaning, and a palatable oyster and potato dish baked with eggs and milk.
The Pall Mall Gazette reports a German chilled steel armor plate five feet nine inches thick and weighing 100 tons withstood repeated hits from a 100 ton gun at Spezzia. A ton weight explosion caused only slight indentation and cracks, suggesting no shot yet invented can pierce six feet of chilled steel.
John Wright, famed in East Tennessee mountains as a thief-catcher, is alleged to have killed thirty three men over twenty years, claiming all deaths occurred in self defense.
An English researcher reports ivy over a house may keep the interior dry. The passage also notes Malays prize thunderstones, California barbers use salty waters as shampoo, and a Dutch flour preservation process. A West Goshen calf has no eyes or tail. railroading costs and fuel efficiency figures follow.
The piece extols a spotless reputation as a mortal treasure and urges living so others cannot distrust. It likens life to a quarry where character is formed and notes pain offers relief through intermittent ease and reflection.
A discussion on whether multi eyed creatures like lobsters and insects perceive many separate images or a single composite view. It notes that regardless of eyelets, retinae form the final image, forming a mosaic of sight from axial rays.
An English naturalist compares species reproduction with human fertility noting turbot and other animals require high egg counts to sustain numbers while humans average five to six children per couple. The piece includes a Minnesota to Chicago data line citing Chicago handling 7 million hogs 2 million cattle and 132 million bushels of grain last year.
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