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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1886
Page
2
Poem excerpt describes a vessel under sealed orders steering by faith not sight as it sails into unknown seas. The text reflects duty and endurance amid darkness with a hopeful return to port. Helen Chauncey of Sailors' Magazine is cited as the source.
In Pitcherville a hospital chaplain from New York, Felix Amory, seeks shelter during a storm. The town mislabels him a smallpox case prompting Mrs Printemps to warn others. Kate Duer helps him, vaccinating skepticism, and hospitality leads to a quiet romance as rumors vanish.
A French paper explains how men's fashion plates shape styles. Paris tailors forming a society fund fashion plates through member sales, using an eleven member committee to draft designs, vote, and engrave plates sent worldwide. English competition and French efforts to regain edge are noted.
A humorous exchange from the New York Sun compares a bee line to a straight path, with Bobby asking what his father meant by never meeting Featherly on the street without him aiming for a saloon. Featherly explains the bee line as a bee’s flight to its hive after gathering honey.
An amusing anecdote from a Washington social scene notes a young newcomer at a swell affair. In the refreshment room a polite waiter, resembling a diplomat, asks if anyone is waiting on her. She replies no in Washington, boasting she has more beans back home than any other girl in town.
A Wayback district member argues with a constituent about seating in the legislatur gallery. The constituent complains of not receiving a chair after supporting the election and threatens to withhold votes. Lynn Union.
In a private dining room at a club, Mr V recounts a memory of Lake George with Bob and his mother listening. The tale prompts a younger guest to call it an old chestnut as Bob reluctantly asks for more meat, while his mother hints at heard family stories.
A former Louisville Journal editor George D. Prentice grills a boastful student Edwards who imagines an easy path to journalism. Prentice warns that true insight ruins the urge for the trade and mocks the young man’s zealous pretensions. The piece then diverts into an extended, technical digression on ocean science and navigation techniques.
A collage of light verse and jokes from various papers including the Picayune Boston Transcript and Detroit Free Press. The items poke fun at doctors, women with broom drills, moles, pie crusts, and an array of witty one liners.
A dialogue from the Arkansas Traveler features Edwards and Mr Prentice debating a future path. Prentice suggests government or poster writing while painting vivid images of river life, curren navigation, and ferryman wit as possibilities.
A lengthy description recounts an ambitious German clock by Christian Martin that spans a hundred centuries. Its ten foot square face features 122 figures enacting human life with angels tolling bells and allegorical acts of mortality, including a Comanche death figure, apostles, and Christ blessing. The piece sits atop a grand structure crowned by an eagle at six and twelve.
Poetical fragment describing dawn over misty clover fields with larks and fresh buds. Expresses awakening feeling as a voice calls to a beloved, comparing breath and dew to bright wings, ending with a signature line by king John Moran in the Current.
The piece notes gambling in Monaco with silent players from old men to English visitors. Croupiers rise at 11, doors close, and Monte Carlo seems asleep by midnight while gamblers, including Americans and Englishwomen, linger with a hopeful belief in breaking the bank. It ends with a quip about English peerage and brewing.
A miscellany of strange facts including the last slave sale in Virginia in 1868, duck fat waterproofing leather, watch mainsprings peak in fall, Roman Lares worship, an autograph Washington letter on a runaway cook, snail racing in Paris, a Chinaman's bird cage on a walk, a shepherd’s fire revealing Cerro de Pasco mines, and a Hungarian magnate banning horses with trained deer later drawing his carriage by oxen.
The article argues the American trotter is now favored over the runner for public esteem and advertising. It notes that running horses serve gambling and exhibition aims, while trotting horses rise in road use and prestige. Historical pace records and future improvements are discussed amid a series of local disaster notes.
In the clipping a frightened woman reports a man peering through a kitchen window prompting a tense remark from another. The exchange, relayed by the paper, mirrors a cautious, alarmed reaction to a perceived intrusion.
Dialog reveals two lawyers boasting of a sensational case. One recalls the client’s fate as hanged, while noting publicity and advertising impact amplifying the trial’s profile.
A dialogue from the Detroit Free Press features a bicyclist and a Pennsylvania farmer. The rider objects to a road described as smooth while a quarry-like surface lies ahead. The farmer quips that the road is smooth once rocks are removed.
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