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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1888
Page
12
Poem fragment contrasts clinging to dead past with moving on. The speaker dismisses longing for bygone joys and love, urging acceptance of loss and to seek new songs. Imagery centers on embers, phantom touches, and the dead as a caution against revival.
Howard ends engagement with Effie after overhearing her insults to Marie Insley and declares his love for Marie. Effie storms out as Marie collapses, clutching a diamond ring after a fainting spell triggered by the confrontation. Marie’s illness worsens at home as the flower shop profits continue despite personal turmoil.
The article surveys Greek island death customs with salt offerings for enmity, Erinnyes fears for children, priestly incantations, and incense in sick rooms. It describes posthumous rituals on roofs, the death-wail, washing the body in wine, and displaying the deceased in fine clothes to ease passage to the afterlife, linking Hellenic past and present. It then notes U S Senate wedding gift customs with a $10 per senator tribute to Mrs. Uawley and ends oddly with a line about male twins as “dlibusters.”
A collection of light humor and clipped exchanges featuring sly remarks about style and propriety. Skits include a boisterous fellow in shiny boots and coat, jokes about river thieves, archery quips, and playful banter between Miss Prim and Mr Gubbins, all from a 19th century humor page.
A satirical excerpt reports on a missionary’s Indian boy servant, a bucket wash, and a misinterpreted joke about water. It then recalls a New York hat store scene where a silk hat is ironed and misidentifications lead to a comic exchange about a new hat versus an old one.
Larry Jerome, a New York millionaire patron of outdoor sports, buys a solid gold scarf pin set with a sapphire at Macy's for $3 before heading to Washington. The article notes the pin’s gleaming appearance and Jerome’s pride as observers take in the accessory.
Larry deceives John Cham Berlin and Hoey over a diamond scarf pin in a misfit deal. Hoey trades a $50 pin, only to learn its real value is about twenty five cents. The hoax ends with Larry facing a sharp moral reckoning and a plan to confront Hoey with a club.
An oft cited description portrays Australian Aboriginal people as faithful endurance specialists with exceptional tracking abilities. The piece notes their loyalty to sick masters, capacity for long travels, and keen police-appraisal of scent and observation. It also alleges coerced capture of young Black boys by Queensland society, framing it as a hidden crime.
A historical note explains how early cranberry harvesting used wild bog scoops and rakes that bruised berries and mixed in weeds and mud. Hand picking is now favored for vine preservation, cleaner fruit, and higher market price, despite higher labor costs.
The article notes the frigate bird as a swift tropical seabird with massive pectoral muscles, making flight speed hard to limit. It also cites the black swift reaching about 276 miles per hour, and mentions the canvasback duck at about 200 miles per hour, illustrating extraordinary avian speeds.
A collection of curiosities and oddities including musket history in England, Persian armies, perfume from roses, a Missouri mind-reading claim, a dog that crows with roosters, New York and Hingston lawsuits, linguistic notes on elevators and biscuits, a London spectacles mission, Buenos Aires newspaper history, a Throop baby, rattlesnake bravery in Mexico, postage stamp request from Insterburg, a Chicago mushroom venture, a St. Louis dime from Andrew Jackson, and a Hamburg diet observation.
A historical look at prize money from 18th century naval captures. The Centurion's 1743 prize ballast and bullion, including a Nostra de Cubatango haul worth about $2,000,000, yielded Commodore Anson over $30,000. Other ships in 1745 earned prizes totaling millions, with captains and officers sharing sizable sums. The narrative notes the Ke mione prize in 1762 and mentions shares for lieutenants and a large captain’s prize, while referencing a pamphlet about the National Bank act and debates on English territory funds.
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