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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1885
Page
2
Mrs Brown and Mrs Brown exchange blue bundles on a crowded train after mistaking each other’s infant. The mothers chase the other couple to the station, then discover the swap and return home with their babies, amid relief and laughter.
An account from Berne shows Dr Albrecht’s experiments using oxygen inhalation with consumptives. Patients on a nutritious diet were weighed regularly. oxygen began, weight loss slowed or reversed, dyspnea eased, and bacteria diminished.
A San Francisco Alta tale describes Edward N Willetts a six foot vaquero who saved a Boston girl from a herd on a California hillside. He later plans to marry her and return to Boston with prospects of support from her father-in-law.
A historical note on intentional Bible alterations by printers and others to influence church power. It cites Field bribery to change Acts 6, the Vinegar Bible misprint, a German printer’s widow who altered Herr to Narr, and Sixtus V editions famed for many errata despite his supervision.
A terse scene shows a lover asking for one more moment as he stands on the stoop with his sweetheart. The mother peeks from the window and warns about a late hour while the lover departs with a heavy heart.
A child named Johnny struggles to carry a sack of feathers upstairs and questions his mother about weight. His mother dismisses the weight as feather light, sparking a simple moral about perception of heaviness. The scene reflects a domestic humor tone.
A clipped item notes provocative lines about Mexico and annexation. It mentions brimstone at both ends and includes the line about an American citizen who once searched for paregoric at 3am, reflecting a fraught mood in the era.
A historical note recalls the Lincoln kidnapping plot centered on the Van Ness mansion near the White House and explains its failure. The piece also shares a Gulf of Mexico island salt story describing how wind and salt transformed sugar plantations’ juice and left residents using driftwood for fuel.
A West passenger defends keeping a cyclone pit near his home saying cyclones never scare him and he uses the pit to calm his temperamental wife on wash days. The Chicago Herald quotes the exchange as a humorous regional quip.
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