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Newspaper
The Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1885
Page
4
A collage of comic vignettes. A boy keeps a lock of his father's hair for a toy horse while a beefsteak misadventure ends in leather like meat. A farmer braids misfortune with a parched fence and a horse, a lawyer taunts danger, and a man contemplates life insurance with a bluffing stranger in a Chicago Ledger bit.
A collection of short quips and humorous snippets from various-era papers. Bits include puns about love and marriage, bees, shoes, and the sky, plus light banter on poets, cannons, and canned fruits.
A fragmentary poem reflecting secret thoughts and longing for past joys. The speaker notes how public attention fades and inner grief softens into mild tears. In lonely evenings the heart seeks solace, dreams fade, and contemplation turns toward a life beyond.
A single veteran from Napoleon’s old guard remains, aged ninety four, living quietly as memory of the era endures. In San Antonio a crystal-rich society parades 103 stockholders, while Cleveland county reports a new variation named Grover. Russia sustains vast production of brrcit and boxwoold spoons totaling 126 million yearly, and tax averages for silver and gharrai from 1821 to 1830 run about 9,060 dollars.
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