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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1888
Page
9
The piece portrays Chinese merchants as keen, calculating traders who tailor prices to each customer. It details price bargaining, weight and measure frauds, and the social theatrics used to extract extra coins, with anecdotes from Pekin on meat, tea, and room charges.
Animal behavior and celestial cues are linked to storms in this compilation from the Boston Journal. Oxen and sheep huddle as a sheltering sign, foxes bark at night, peafowl cry loudly and choose low perches, wild geese fly in numbers signaling a storm, and rising southwest clouds presage bad weather. Aurora brightness, smoky clouds, and heat shifts near fires hint at storms, while cloud height patterns and wind shifts forecast dry spells or blasts.
The Independent notes that pineapple culture faced limited success in the United States but thrived in England and Scotland. It cites early cultivation in English stoves and succession houses, first fruiting in Crichton near Edinburgh in 1782, and a fourteen pound fifteen ounce record fruit. It also mentions a Sardinian king funding research and an Italian gardener detailing pit plans in 1777.
Two San Jose men claim a distinguished physician’s smallpox cure recipe exists in their pockebook. They allege the formula, used in hundreds of cases, cures smallpox and scarlet fever within twelve hours, with a zinc sulfate and foxglove mixture taken with water and sugar. They urge physicians to adopt it nationwide.
A curious case in San Francisco centers on Stayab whose skin alternates weekly between light yellow and Ethiopian black. When light, he is sociable. when dark, he hides and avoids recognition. Doctors are puzzled by this phenomenon. Australians are said to be the greatest bettors in the world with annual wagers around 100 million pounds on horse races.
A New York Sun snippet mocks social manners with a photographer addressing a sitter Miss Smith and commenting on Miss Brown at a Sunday session. The dialogue hints at class contrasts and a charmingly blunt portrait of urban life.
In Austin Texas Cel Hamilton Milton shows appetite exceeding two men yet his sight dims. Gilhooly asks about trouble and he describes missing soup and custard due to unreadable bills. A man tries to sell a dog described as a watch dog, with a puzzled reaction from Grigsby, noting the dog’s intrusion in the house.
A damaged dialogue fragment shows old Crasus scolding Tom for defalcation after a financial crash. Tom apologizes claiming he hoped to adjust matters before the collapse. Crasus retorts that he cannot bail him out and urges the boy to live and learn.
A comic exchange on carrying coals to Newcastle unfolds in a Sharp wit dialogue. A husband explains the metaphor with a mock illustration about bringing a book home and a leap year joke turns to an awkward marriage proposal.
A clipped Southern California scene shows a skilled plowman, cheered by onlookers, as a fieldmate notes the plow’s ease and the man’s lively movement. An Omaha Word anecdote follows about Miss Julia and a tense confession from Mr. Sampson, hinting at a late night with friends.
An anecdote describes a merchant solving drummer interruptions by placing a plug hat and open packing on the counter each morning. Drummers visit, glimpse the signs, then leave promptly, allowing quiet business. A farmer narrator recalls a bold encounter with a street performer and a boy who grabbed a cap during the episode.
A Detroit Free Press snippet records a slangy arithmetic moment as a speaker tallies losses and costs. Tie discards bags and oat sacks, a tea kettle, and a rake, prompting a rough calculation to see the net.
A Missouri constable went to a St Joseph area farm with a subpoena for a woman witness. Found she was busy boiling soap in a large kettle she refused to abandon, arguing law and patience, while declaring she would not be fined for contempt of court.
A narrative on Japanese acting style noted for quiet naturalism and deep pathos, with scenes of sword fights and gory battles. Audiences celebrate with shouts and by throwing garments and valuables onto the stage, later redeemed as pledges after reward. A foreigner keeps a hat as a souvenir despite protests.
Hiram Collier, an engineer at the Glen Dale iron works in Pennsylvania, crawled through three feet of flame to escape a burning oil explosion inside a boiler. His clothing and hair burned, but he survived without fatal injuries as co-workers quickly extinguished the flames.
Household tips cover cleaning colored silk with a potato starch liquid and a lime and pearlash solution for building cleaning, plus methods to carve roast beef. Instructions detail preparation, application, rinsing, and serving, with two carving approaches and guidance on knife control. The piece cites the York Dispatch and New York Herald.
A Victorian style guide describes decorating a bed room with cream white nails, pale olive gray woodwork, and rose pink and crimson accents. It covers bed frame, canopy, curtains, scrim, lace, a bureau, and ribbons, plus advice on curtains, scrim, and linen touches. It adds assorted household tips on stain removal, keeping jelly from boiling, wax dishes, black currants, canning, and hair care.
This column offers practical advice on cleaning and maintaining household items. It covers treating raking pans with Hour to prevent sticking, cleaning mahogany furniture with soap and beeswax, and polishing with chamois. It also explains causes of damage by Chinese laundry pressure, and home remedies for fresh burns including soft soap linseed oil flour and a protective skin that forms as it dries.
A New York World correspondent notes Washington rapidly shifts from country town to bustling city. In five years its business scene expanded beyond real estate, with white marble Baltimore Lee building rising eight stories, shops stocking fine dry goods, art furniture, rugs, and jewels. Winter traffic swells with lavish buyers, while locals travel to larger cities for certain goods.
An Army Headquarters order defines the daily ration per person. It lists pork or beef options, various bread and corn meal bases, beans or peas, rice or hominy, coffee or tea, sugar, vinegar, soap, pepper, yeast powder for field troops, and specifies quantities for one hundred rations. The standard will guide future inquiries into sufficiency and succulence.
The Brooklyn Jungle prints a compiled roster of state nicknames applied to residents. It pairs each state with a colorful epithet such as Maine as foxes and New York as Knickerbockers, among many others including Vermont Green Mountain boys and Ohio buckeyes.
During this year’s Chinese New Year celebration in San Francisco a shin Li Gear Society ceremony installed a new ivory god from Pekin to replace their lost idol. The gilded deity, ebony inlaid with silver and tiger skin, arrived in grand state while rain fell, sheltered by six members in blue tunics and orange sashes under a canopy of yellow and crimson silk.
Louis Swain and Miss Shawsgarden exchange light humor after attending the opera. She quips that charging fifteen cents a pint for peanuts was "simpy outrageous," eliciting a witty reply. The brief exchange captures social chatter in New York society.
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