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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1885
Page
2
A dying farmer leaves three sons a moral about hidden wealth. grounded toil yields riches. His sons, lazy at first, awaken to work. An observant son discovers the truth in the soil and crops up a harvest of gold through effort and patience.
AFlorence tale of a poor physician asked to embalm a dead sister's heart for a foreign family. A mysterious donor pays, a night raid on a young woman reveals a frightened escape, and the physician fears he aided a crime. Years later at the opera a princess reappears, sparking rumors about the attacker and connections to noble suitors.
A humorous recounting from Santa Rosa New Mexico describes the rise and collapse of San Miguel county's first fair. Saloonkeepers formed an expo to attract crowds, mismanaged prizes, and exhibitor greed led to ribbon payment schemes, duels over funds, and a hasty town exit amid unpaid bills.
Nutrition advice urges oatmeal graham bread and beef with ample sleep to improve health while noting nasal catarrh more in men. It contrasts hat use and heat with cold risk, offers a knee tapping method to cure stuttering, and advocates light wall paints over dark wallpaper to avoid taint from excretions and paste.
A farmer’s party on J. R. Awdry’s Madison township land in Perry county killed a large black snake with a tail from another snake protruding from its mouth. The captured snake had swallowed a three and a half foot prey snake that had cannibalized a ground squirrel, astonishing the observers. Connecticut is noted for retaining judicial functions with a supreme court and equity.
A colonial-era note describes old practices and artifacts from 1842 Georgia to St Petersburg, including flint fire, Wellingtons, knights’ coats, Siam paper, shark worship, and tobacco in old medicine. It mentions Washington’s G W initials on brass buttons and a Hindgo loom valued at sixty eight cents weaving shawls and silks.
Rosina Voices renews glory at the Globe with new settings and a brilliant audience. Boston Museum features John Gilbert leading a strong cast as old comedies return. The Field of the Cloth of Gold opens at Buon Thearke to enthusiastic attendance, while May Blossoms captures crowds at Park Theatre with Cayvan and Maginley. Shadows of a Great City at Boston Theatre stars Edna Carey and George Benson. An aside recalls Washington pie fading, cheesecake rising in pie history.
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