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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1891
Page
6
A collage of fashion notes and social commentary from Detroit Free Press and Harper’s Bazar. It notes trends like sealskin coats and eight ounce gloves, remarks on youth fashion, and a joke about old maids in a science lecture highlighting humorous class banter.
A young lieutenant wounded at Petersburg faced possible arm amputation. One surgeon proposed removing bone to save the limb, but warned of a crooked result. The lieutenant urged to “set it for hugging,” preferring any arm to none as he aimed for future conquests.
In a Springfield Graphic piece a student group presents varied essays on topics from Magna Charta to Browning and German letters. A later speaker shifts to domestic life and kitchen craft, contrasting lofty study with a hardworking married woman who once wrote on Browning now scrubs and cooks, reflecting on lost scholarly s...
A story of Eliphalet Duncan and his wife who built a new house and barn after years of thrift. Their happiness ends when a fire destroys the barn and nearly the house just before they move in. He calmly views the ruins and proclaims the loss may yet be for the best and a complete ending.
A New Hampshire history recounts Mrs. Huse defending against a bear during a autumn hunt. She unearthed a pine knot and struck the bear, breaking its back, then cooked bear meat for supper when her husband and companion returned. The story highlights her Indian lineage and strength.
The article notes uniform sea temperatures at 3500 feet, with slight variation by latitude. It explains deep-water freezing beginnings in Arctic bays, and that at 3500 feet waves are not felt as water remains stationary while rising and falling move the surface. Pressure at one mile equals about one ton per square inch.
A Texas hotel reading room scene shows a man dozing in a chair with a paper in hand. An acquirer of the paper tries to take it but the sleeper wakes and refuses to yield claiming ownership. The joke ends with a quip about finishing his nap. The other fragment jokes about Wagner as a classifier of noises.
Dialogue recounts a proud parent praising a son’s school progress after eight years and thirty two exams, followed by a humorous court anecdote from the St Paul Globe where an old settler exposes jurors as debtors and urges quick dismissal of a case.
A maze of antique bits includes a madison avenue servant tale about punctual routines, remarks on Sicilian drawn-work embroidery, a portrait of Herbert Spencer at seventy, a note on Tom Moore’s green harp, a crab that chews with its legs, and Talmage musings on hard work and idleness. It ends with guidance on easy personal cleanliness and a closing remark on daily routines and health.
A young camper in the Sierra Mountains discovered an unusual butterfly species. He sent it to the Smithsonian in Washington and received a $1,500 check with a request to search for more specimens. Scientists were thrilled by the alive example of a race believed extinct, though later searches found no others despite paid efforts.
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