Tim of the Butterflies and the Silent Hill
A mother recalls her hopeful boy Tim who dreamed of a bright future and butterfly chases. He dies in winter, buried beneath snow as she envisions a reunion beyond the clouds and over the golden gate.
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Newspaper
Vinton Semi Weekly Eagle
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1882
Page
2
Love on a Farm and a Fortune Found
Emily Alden, a city schoolteacher, returns to her Cousin Shadrach Seely’s home and earns trust by proving herself as a capable cook and worker. She secretly inherits half of Shadrach’s estate for marrying a loyal husband, while the other half goes to the Baptist widows and orphans. Aunt Dorcas Torrance witnesses Emily’s rise from modest origins to a wealth-backed future, and Job Torrance welcomes his clever, steadfast fiancée as family. The tale blends rural charm with a novella of inheritance and virtue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorcas
Mra. Torrance
Shadrach
Baptist Widow and Orphan Fund
Mrs. Torrance
Emily Alden
Emily
Job Torrance
Mrs Torrance
Job, Jr
Mia
Torrance
Job
Aldens
Lucifer
Jub
Sandrach Beely
Shadrach Seely
Mis
Woman Gossip Warns Teens To Stay True To Youth
A Springfield Republic an item recounts a young woman disguising herself with long skirts and altered hair to appear older. An elder acquaintance fails to recognize her and bluntly tells her to drop the airs, return to youth, and avoid aging into grayness.
Notable Wealthy Wife Hearts Domestic Manners and Fortunes
The article recounts the wife of Cyrus McCormick, famed reaper inventor, famed for her cultivated life after studying to manage wealth. It describes a refined domestic routine with invited guests, a sacred room for her husband, and a lifelong courtship cadence. It also discusses fashionable footwear issues and foot health, contrasting high arches and splayed feet, then notes the grave of President Arthur’s widow in Albany with roses and lilies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyrus McCormick
Reaper Fame
Arthur
Albany
Splayed feet rise in New York as high heels blamed
An elderly New York surgeon warns of a rising number of splayed feet among city youth. He explains a splayed or flat arch results from broken instep arches and links the condition to wearing high heels. He notes French fashion places heels forward to support the arch like a bridge tower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
France
Explosions in Mills Prompt Warning on Dust Risks
The article links mill explosions in Glasgow and Minneapolis to hidden dangers in dust and powders. It cites Prof. T. W. Tobin theories and explains how hydrogen air mixtures and combustible dust can ignite suddenly. The warning targets millers to recognize how common materials become explosive under specific conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
T. W. Tobin
Glasgow
Scotland
Musical and Dramatic Careers and Stage News
The piece surveys actors and performers, noting Edwin Boora’s mother’s 80th birthday, the Fuorenor couple planning to continue on stage next season, and a shift away from diplomacy by Boora. It cites profits of 52000 for Emma Abbott’s widow, warns travel harms actors, and praises Lucca’s Carmen while recounting fresh talent finds and Canoman Newman’s self-made rise through effort rather than formal schooling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Boora
W. J. Fuorenor
Wernerett
Emma Abbott
Ayer
Oxurve Logan
Minnie Haenk
Joan T. Raymond
Canoman Newman
A warm parlor scene with a whispered proposal
A spring night in a quiet home as two lovers share a private moment by a dying furnace. A child and mother interrupt with cautionary calls, while the girl asserts the warmth of her partner and resists the mother's concern about catching cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amandy
Fragmented 19th Century Clippings Echo Odd Tales
A garbled jumble from Boston carriers, Utah line antics, dressmaking debts, and peculiar wills. Notable items include a Brooklyn woman’s property bequest to her sons and church, a strangled Paris river incident with a widow’s son quote, and Bayard Taylor’s mother gifting silk to a Philadelphia dry goods house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Oznter Rives
Conway Bounty
Ark
Utah
Normina
Joan Davis
England
Maria Hoorxmzxen
Brooklyn
Magses
Fire Spreads as Trains Rush to Help Town
Amid a raging blaze the besieged town braces for disaster as engines from distant cities race in to aid. Authorities mobilize every resource to control the fire and rescue residents, while mounting evacuations proceed.
Rise of large firms in shroud making shifts trade
The shroud trade has expanded greatly in five years with seven New York firms dominating production of about 20 000 shrouds annually. Agents travel nationwide and small dealers stock 160 to 200 shrouds. Expert makers are in demand as the trade, akin to dressmaking, requires about two years of training and offers good pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firme i
New York
Agenta
The Editor’s Cruel Debt Prank at Figaro
Villemessant played a sharp practical joke on a staffer in heavy debt. A late-night hoax announced that the debtor would pay and that creditors should form a public line along major Paris streets with a squad of sergeants to maintain order. The debtor, horrified, sought Villemessant who had gone to Nice, and the joke was only revealed at press time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rossini
Chauchant
Lafayette
Hanssman
Picquet
Marseilles
M. Villemessant
Nice
Mendelssohn Led Self Education In Secrecy
In around 1744 Moses Mendelssohn began a private study of German, a dangerous step requiring strict secrecy. A fellow Jew teaching him was expelled from Berlin for obtaining a German book, illustrating the perilous path Mendelssohn chose in pursuit of self education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendelssohn
Moses’ ‘Mendelssohn
The Black Eunuchs Rule The Palace
A London society piece describes the eunuchs as the empire’s near absolute power holders, led by the Kissar Agad. They supervise the harem, punish insubordination with rods, and dispose of serious matters. Black eunuchs live princely, off hacksheesh, supply mutes and negatives, and execute high-level dismissals via a Black Mail mission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kissar Agad
Porto
Arabia
Asia Minor
Mple
Zondon Society
Tobacco Adulteration in Early 1900s Shows Fake Flavors and Toxins
A Providence Journal item reports widespread tobacco adulteration with vanilla, valerian, cedar oil, and other chemicals used to flavor cigars and cigarettes. It notes ammonia for burning, nitro compounds, and alcohol tinctures, with New England rum cited as a sedative additive. It mentions 826,666,000 cigars and 229,800,000 cigarettes made annually in New York and 25,000 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
New York
England
Tobacconista
New England
Providence Journal
Napoleon memory for figures uncovers wartime fraud
The first Napoleon reportedly tracked every tax figure and could recall expenditures to the centime. He corrected a minister who misdated a battalion’s rations at Besançon, exposing a fraud. The pedalator was dismissed and the army circulated the tale, fueling wary humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napoleon
Besancon
France
Romance of a Mustache. 3. George W Peck tale of love and loss
A 19 year old suitor with a prized mustache cuts it off to please his girlfriend. She recoils at his bare lips, delivering scathing contempt. He endures public mockery, contemplates leaving, but stays. After a dramatic confrontation she rejects him, and he drowns his humiliation in a beer hall. A cautionary comic tale about mustache removal during courtship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halberstadt
Risch
George W. Peck
Barrett
Richelieu
Hoe
Acken
Burleigh Letters and a Boston Journal Feud
A tale describes Matthew Hale Smith writing as Burleigh and Charles Rogers clashing over legible copy at the Boston Journal. Rogers mocks Smith, then finalizes with a clever note. later Rogers hosts Smith in Boston as payment for the affront. Also recounted is a Virginia farm rooster believed to be missing for weeks, found skinny yet alive after a ledge sighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Matthew Hale Smith
Boston Journal
Rogers
Burleigh
Journal
Xooston
Virginia
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