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Newspaper
The Warner Sun
Location
Warner, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1887
Page
4
Lucia Ringgold and Gerald Cosgrove clash with Flossie Ringgold as both pursue lasting affection after a festive sleigh ride. Flossie’s deception ends when Gerald reveals Lucia’s engaged status, setting a dramatic course from disappointment to marriage.
A New Orleans widow, ten years after her husband’s death, starts a paper box business in a crowded garret on Chartres street. She learned the craft from Northern box makers and now directs a small factory with eighteen horsepower and thirty-five workers, supplying packing cases to druggists milliners and other merchants.
A London Standard essay explores touchiness across history from medieval nobility to a Scotch minister and a French abbe. It notes how oversensitive people read insults where none exist and contrasts them with blunt blunders who overlook hints.
The Springfield Republican urges health boards to enforce hygiene laws amid a typhoid outbreak linked to contaminated rural wells near a Catholic school. It notes widespread ignorance in New England farms about sanitation, citing polluted wells, damp mossy river surfaces, and ineffective public opinion on hygienic reform.
Aunt Nabby Powers is depicted as a profoundly pessimistic woman who never sees a bright day. She mutters lugubrious remarks about life and weather while boasting a lush garden that she deems dry and wet at once. Her constant refrain "La me" underscores a lifelong pattern of complaining despite small joys.
The article recounts Nicholas Allen discovering coal on Broad Mountain in Pennsylvania in 1790 after lighting a fire and recognizing it as coal. He and his wife loaded wagons to sell it in Philadelphia, but misfortune ruined the venture.
In a satirical letter the Bridgeport Sentinel laments modern comforts such as steam, railways, telegraphs, and gas lights. It mocks a proposed law to ban all modern conveniences and urges preserving progress, arguing against reviving the old era.
A young Englishwoman faced denial and danger to treat a patient in Lucknow. Her act prompted Queen Victoria to back female medical aid in India, leading to an association, doctors, nurses, and a new hospital for Hindu women funded by a native prince. Seeds of good deeds grow, with future impact unknown.
A Boston woman physician argues that higher cultural polish among young women today reduces their desire to marry men who enter business early. She notes a shift from the old belief any husband is better than none to a modern preference for cultivated traits, changing the marriage market dynamics.
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