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Fragmentary lines evoke a surreal image of life’s tangled webbing and personal rags of string. The wording hints at a reflective, lyric style with dense imagery and incomplete phrases.
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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1888
Page
11
Fragmentary lines evoke a surreal image of life’s tangled webbing and personal rags of string. The wording hints at a reflective, lyric style with dense imagery and incomplete phrases.
Teo Gordon and fellow Americans aid Tula Velasquez to resist a forced Maximilian era marriage. After plotting from a hacienda wing, Leo retrieves a note, leads a dawn rescue at the chapel, captures Colonel Fernandez, and escapes with Tula. Leo is wounded, later settles near the Pearl River with his bride, Valetta, and Eznaldo's family.
An uptown dry goods dealer explains the dye derived from common poplar wood young branches ground and boiled with alum. The result is a gold yellow base used to produce rich shades of yellow green orange brown and red for ladies dress goods with lasting color.
Carter Harrison reports in Zenares that three ghats carry cremations with one body each, while five pyres burn with two corpses wrapped in white cloth nearby. A city sewer poisons the river just feet from a corpse, as bathers drink the water. A nearby dirty tank receives offerings and baths, drawing dainty women to wash in the fetid water amid jewel weights and embroidered silk garments.
A fragmentary historical notice features A du Plessis and J du Plessis confessing mendacious statements about Mr G P Bezuidenhowt and pledging to retract previously said accusations in a formal amende honorable gesture with others witnessing.
A survey of European rulers notes Queen Victoria nearing seventy and the long reigns of Francis Joseph and Wilhelm II. It lists age, tenure, and family ties for monarchs across nations including Belgium, Italy, Russia, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Greece, Turkey, and Montenegro, plus two kingless republics France and Switzerland with Carnot and the Swiss President as leaders.
Joel Wilcox of Milwaukee cherished his animals and horses and, on his deathbed, instructed his nephew to shoot the herd and bury them properly so they would not be abused. The order was carried out as requested.
Ex Judge Join bits laments an era of scrimping across society. He notes fewer luxuries at private receptions, thrift in dress, and rising costs for working people. He cites overcoats saved for next winter, cheaper stockings smuggled from Europe, and widespread deprivation among workers and especially women.
Dr James White of Harvard debunks old wives tales about foods harming the skin. Uncooked butter is harmless, buckwheat cakes only upset digestion if poorly cooked with excess syrup, oatmeal is harmless, and tomatoes do not cause cancer. Fruits nuts and fish may irritate some individuals but only due to personal factors. A healthy digestion and good appetite ensure clear skin regardless of diet, the Springfield Union reports.
A historical note describes waterfowl and other birds that, when shot mid air, appear to set their wings and glide to the ground as if dead. Included are observations about ducks turkeys and prairie hens and a remark from a hunter about the belief that a killed bird has set its wings. Also mentions tall European churches and a Japanese royal slippers order with foot outline.
A trimmed mosaic of curiosities on science, history, and oddities. Notes claim modern needles appeared in 1345, Vienna’s name from the Wien river, Brunswick’s shade oak, and a superlative seven-foot girl. It also cites oddities like a man who attended 2,700 funerals and a cow choking incident in Nevada that led to arm amputation.
A Chicago Journal note demystifies bruises by arguing hot applications stimulate circulation and best counter discoloration, contrasting with a superstition favoring cold compresses such as raw beef. The author recalls two incidents, one with cold treatment producing a dark bruise, another with hot water bathing preventing discoloration.
Carter H. Larrison recalls Cawnpool with its leather industry rice mills and jute factory as he tours the vast cantonment. He visits a monument over the well where 700 noncombatants were killed in the Sepoy mutiny and notes lingering English bitterness toward natives. He cites per capita British butter and cheese imports rising from 1850 to 1896.
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