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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1886
Page
3
Boston Globe reporter details Gloucester Massachusetts fishing life with crews facing storms and long voyages. Trawling at Grand Banks yields large halibut and cod with risky operations, high costs, and near zero profit.
A collection of aphorisms about manners, contentment, and self control. It urges that character shapes virtue not rank and cautions against speaking or acting without weighing consequences. It links memory, learning, and nobility to truth, justice, fortitude, and temperance.
Mr. A. W. Osborn, a Cuban bee-keeper, argues bees hear and react quickly. He recalls California observations of swarms attacking horses and dogs, noting bees sting relentlessly once they attack. He describes being badly stung despite a veil and warns against upsetting a swarm about to strike.
A Constantinople correspondent explains how Eastern naming reflects local features and history. He lists examples along the Bosphorus such as Dolma Batche meaning ravine, Pilav Kaia meaning rock of rice, and Therapia meaning health, noting rich interior meanings in Turkish toponymy.
Senator Stanford parrots harsh remarks about tramps migrating from the East to California. He claims many ride trains or are killed on trips, citing a century of accidents and stating California’s climate offers a refuge. He says winter crowds in cities expose their alleged lack of work pursuit and shifts blame to Chinese labor.
A Bangor road pond near Dr. J J Page’s cottage hosts frogs famed as poison eaters. After a thaw they surfaced to sing. a sudden cold froze them with heads protruding through the ice, left as winter pond lilies in Buckapon Maine.
A visiting writer tours a large Brooklyn matches plant with 300 workers. He notes orderly operations from pine block preparation to dipping, drying, and packaging, and highlights ventilation, handwashing, and health measures to mitigate phosphorus fumes and jaw disease.
The article surveys 19th century women’s fashion with details on draperies bonnets beads gauze ribbons and parasols. It notes the Princess of Wales disapproving of dress improvers and records fashion figures including number of working women in England and Wales and incomes of Philadelphia physicians.
The excerpt describes a woman enjoying freedom from birth to age seven, then being confined for life. In her father's house only her father and brothers may see her, and after marriage only her husband and father-in-law have access to her. The text highlights strict seclusion norms governing femininity and household access.
The piece argues species varying reproduction to offset losses with many eggs for fish and fewer for amphibians reptiles birds and mammals. It cites humans needing five to six children per couple to sustain populations, noting England averages four. It reflects historical demographic theory on population maintenance and mortality.
The Methodist Protestant church reports 670 ministers and 928 local preachers serving 124638 members. It also lists 4071 proos honors in the year’s totals.
A collage of promotional claims and curiosities including St Jacobs Oil trophies and cures for rheumatism, a chinook wind in the Northwest, and notations on cattle ranches in Texas. Also advertisements for Allen's Lung Balsam, Dr. Pierce's remedies, Dr. Bigelow's cough cures, and Dr. Jones' Red Clover Tonic, plus a note on tattoo laws and a steam engine sewing machine.
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