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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1886
Page
2
A poem extols a happy home filled with peace gentleness love and piety where sorrow and care are banished and family life centers on shared earnings taught by example. The verse is attributed to Mrs Harry Dou in Good Housekeeping.
Narcissa Hall confronts a planned marriage to Squire Silber while a foxed confession about a parrot and a pony doggedly shapes her future. Walter Milliman supports Narcissa as she discovers her engagement is not settled and negotiates for her happiness with humor and caution. The scene ends with Narcissa choosing love over potential betrothal.
A guest disputes a breakfast charge at Neuchatel’s Hotel des Alps after finding a standard bill. The host alters the bill to reflect the guest’s order, a scene described by Henry Watterson in a Humorous anecdote from old travel writing.
A diving expert describes methods to recover cargo from wrecks and the dangers divers face. He details buoy placement, air-tube risks, and the peril of entanglement. He recalls a chest of gold and jewels found in a wrecked captain’s treasury. Submerged life then unfolds as vivid flora, fauna, and light through clear water create a submarine panorama.
Lady Campbell notes in Book of the Running Brook that many young eels migrate to the sea. Dr. William Root’s Kingston 1832 record estimates sixteen to eighteen hundred pass a point per minute in spring or summer rivers, forming a compact column to overcome flood gates and barriers.
Household affairs suggest crushing shells into small bits and shaking them in a decanter with cold water to clean glass and silverware thoroughly. Use flannel with whiting to remove brown custard stains and emery powder on ivory knife handles. Varnish morocco leather with white or egg for luster. Store silver items with a stick across the top to air and prevent mustiness.
Advice on seasoning glass and china to withstand sudden temperature changes. Proper annealing prevents cracking and staining, with careful handling of gilded ware, drying, and storage to avoid damage and spoilage.
A collection of home cooking notes describing corn dishes and methods. Recipes include Corn Puppina and Grate with milk and eggs, Corn Oysters with saleratus, Corn Soup with corn and milk, Gumpo with squirrels and vegetables, and OneServe corn omelette with corn pulp and eggs.
A reader described experiments with terra cotta and asbestos gas appliances in grates. The devices perforate to emit jets of flame and a vivid anecdote recalls two life like English bulldogs in a blazing hearth and a grate with a chicken on a nest.
A partial poem fragment portrays a valiant knight urged by a nymph to write in an autograph book. The speaker wrestles with a dictionary through dawn to dusk, resisting the eerie task and its ghastly appearance. The lines mix mythic borrowing with linguistic oddities.
A Los Angeles letter to the New York Sun reports three men A F Judson A D Spring and Barney Carter survived Death Valley then found coarse gold in Gunsight placer country. They crossed blazing heat lost wagons and water, endured salt mud and thirst, and after days reached a spring and gravel rich in gold nuggets worth 1 to 5 each. They plan an expedition to open the Gunsight mines with improved gear.
A survey of innovations includes steam processed wood intensified for toughness, heat methods for shaping, a spring-driven signal torpedo for Australian railways, malaria trends in the Roman Campagna, and Dana’s sea level estimates. It reports on milkweed fiber, safe fire-damp venting in mines, paper water and gas pipes, Siberian lake shrinkage, and color restoration using chlorofor m amidamine dyes and chloroform brushing.
The article explains how overall body health affects hair and scalp, then outlines hair structure. It covers hair sacs, layers, pigment, matrix, and sebaceous glands while noting washing with alkaline soap harms the hair. It closes with a Paris livestock consumption statistic for horses and other beasts.
The page lists preaching services and prayer meetings at Methodist and Episcopal churches, Sunday school leaders, and social circles. It notes Saint John’s Episcopal Mission alternate Wednesdays, Union Church Beachmont Episcopal services, and local women’s groups. Mail schedules and town hall meetings accompany church notices.
Reverend J. W. Winkvey announces sermon at 10 45 A M with Sunday school at 12 M All welcome. Ladies Social Guild meets Thursday afternoon at 2 o clock.
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