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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1886
Page
2
Verses urge resilience in life’s continual race. The speaker notes that hardship exists in every season and warns against surrender. Instead, they advocate perseverance and hearing the encouragement Well done as motivation to endure.
In a New York Star tale, physician Albertis treats Clemence with a mental break, prescribing a drastic diversion from science. Clem falls for Lilyan Brown, overcomes his fixation on megatheriums, earns Miss Megrims's disapproval, and wins an engagement after a comical pursuit. The trio later elopes to Europe, with Clem finding happiness and Miss Megrims transformed.
A New York Sun letter describes ancient cedar forests buried in Dennisville swamps since 1812. Logs six feet across, four feet through, windfalls and break-downs, are mined by log diggers using iron rods, saws, and ditches. Cedars yield shingles and staves at high prices, remain unrotted, and extend deep beyond the swamp, with logs found near Cape May and on the Delaware shore.
The article describes beds 200 years ago in England as straw or leaf filled bags without upholstery. Masters and mistresses slept in a shared chamber or shed, with daughters in similar spaces. Young men and guests used the only new room, sleeping on tables or benches. Woolen coverlets and simple arrangements provided warmth.
Reports recount twelve dozen squirrels trapped by three Charleton men in one day. A gray squirrel swam across the Patuxent river in Maryland. Squirrels blocked Grand Trunk tracks at Petrolia California. A hand car collided with the drove, killing sixty four squirrels.
The article urges tidy dooryards as a sign of rural improvement and outlines practical guidance. It covers manure management, fertilizer effects on fruit, window plants like ficus elastica, rain timing for sowing, and choosing robust blooms such as double petunias. It also notes corn husk handling, seed selection, and winter protection for hardy trees.
E P Roe extols currants as a timely cure for languor and low spirits. He claims a daily dish of freshly picked currants after breakfast can transform character, increase generosity, improve work mood, and even resemble a means of grace. Currants quickly propagate. a six inch cutting yields a new plant in one season.
The article explains that wood ashes supply essential plant nutrients mainly potash and phosphates, varies by tree type, with leaves yielding more potash. It notes ash usage in Germany and Europe, leaf season variation, and suggests practices like burning stubble, composting, feeding swine, and using lime near pigsties.
The report blends a Pierre letter describing government rations for the Sioux with lurid scenes of slaughter pens and squaws, then shifts to a St Petersburg smoking room lined with banknotes and a Norwich election anecdote. It ends with a mangled line about a man buried in thorns.
British scientists announce proofs from Welsh caves indicating men existed about 240000 years ago. The report also surveys wide topics from coal theft losses to early watch origins, slave education in Rome, New York’s 1683 Irish Catholic governor, New Zealand fungus trade, Civil War prisoner deaths, and stock ownership patterns in major railways and mills.
A San Franciscan visiting Greene in Trumbull County collects humorous epitaphs from old headstones. Readable inscriptions include WYMAN WAKEFIELD who voted for early presidents, JOHN G EVANS with a touching verse, KUTH, DAUGHTER OF I and M SIRRINE, and three sisters honored by Isaac Stirrine. Another line on ISAAC Stirrine’s grave ends with a darkly comic couplet about ignorance of fate.
Director Mey A B Thomas invites all to attend preaching at 2 50 P M and a 7 30 P M weekly prayer meeting on Thursday. Sunday school overseen by P E Crosby and J W Cordes with librarians Charles Floyd and Miss Eda Richardson assisting. Social Circle meets at church or members’ homes on the last Wednesday monthly.
Sunday schools and weekday gatherings listed for St John’s Episcopal Mission and Union Church Beachmont. Includes praise meetings at 2 80 pm, class and prayer meetings, Ladies Aid Society, Helping Hands, and various Episcopal and Congregational services with times and hosts. All welcome to attend worship and activities.
A Tid Bits excerpt offers practical winter advice warning against risky habits and extreme reactions. It cautions on unsafe behaviors like stepping on oil cloth with bare shoes, sleeping with feet near heat, and sitting on icy pavements while praising cold plunges. It also notes humor about sleighing dangers and a claim that many Dakota farmers raised flax for fuel, valuing a ton of flax for heating over coal.
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