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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1876
Page
4
A Tennessee visitor seeking a business location visits a city paper, counts advertisers, and remarks the town seems small. He notes missing ads in other papers, then concludes the town lacks a true entrepreneurial spirit. The narrative ends with the traveler leaving to explore elsewhere.
A 19th century comparison shows the United States consumed 63 721 528 gallons of liquor last year with 1 957 828 imported, costing 241 079 046 dollars. Per capita use runs about 1.5 gallons, while France relies on wine and notes a 1874 wine harvest valued at 650 million dollars. An unrelated joke about boots ends the piece.
A collection of miscellaneous items cites topics from women’s suffrage and census data to railroad tree planting and odd incidents. It notes Japan’s population rise, Kenya or Kentucky bets, a Paris wedding aid, and curious tales from Minnesota to Newburyport.
A Burlington Iowa anecdote describes a young woman announcing plans to open a North Hill barber shop. The next day North Hill wives present their husbands with razors and brushes as gifts. At home the wives then affectionately rub their faces and sometimes hit them with a rolling pin if the husband’s cheek is smoother.
A judge lectures a pigmy youth on avoiding rocks and violence while recalling a past concussion from a rock. The exchange features a comical tone as the boy pleads “didn’t mean to” and the court chimed in with admonitions and forgiveness.
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