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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1890
Page
8
An essay argues that household workers like Nora bear hidden labor and fatigue from constant work, and suggests giving them regular outings and holidays. It proposes family members share duties, offer appreciation, and balance pleasures with work to improve morale and efficiency.
A local note highlights Mrs H K Chadwick and her seven children all ending with A in their names Martha Amelia Maria Julia agnna Eleni Rey and Fila with their mother Anna. A quirky naming coincidence reported by Gardiner and echoed in period joke items.
The New York Postoffice’s efficiency is praised as a letter misaddressed to a well known official kept being sent between his office and the post office for three days. Officials considered the blunder a reminder of being too well known.
A Berwickshire legend credits the potato’s introduction to Scotland to Sir Michael Scott and a pact with the devil at the Whitehouse estate. The devil’s share is outwitted when Michael planted wheat first year and potatoes second, though the tale is contrasted with credit to Sir Walter Raleigh. Also notes George William Curtis’s appearance and role at Harper’s Weekly and his status as a Rhode Islander and New York University chancellor.
Reports on electric wires harming birds, a Philadelphia Camden ferry suicide with prussic acid, Chesapeake oyster beds yielding millions, cowhide horseshoes in Europe, Japanese straw shoes, and a growing U S electric car network with Boston leading miles of track and evolving systems.
A downtown barbershop hires a young assistant named Guess after a hiring interview. The boss quizzes him to learn his name, guesses many names, but the man persistently replies Guess. Eventually the boss learns his first name is George, apologizes, and the man takes a chair at work.
A businesswoman argues for a clear rule on hats in elevators citing daily experiences in a downtown office building. She notes both courtesy and rebuke when some men remove hats and others keep them on, while also tolerating distractions like cigar smoke and messenger boys’ whistling.
An interview notes a new practice where young doctors travel between drug stores meeting patients who cannot afford office visits. Doctors visit multiple stores daily, heal the sick at home when needed, and the stores benefit by selling prescribed medicines.
In Chicago Herald reporting, two rival salons clash as a martial dowager bans her guests from the rival parlor. She ushers a procession of youths from the drawing room after declaring the space unsafe, leaving her rival in possession of the field.
English naval architect J. Cortell, after twenty years of study, proposes model lifeboats to test types. A 34 by 7 foot self righting boat would be modeled at 14 by 3 feet, about 500 pounds. Six models costing around $1,000 would cover major forms, with 500 more paying crews.
A collage of curious clippings notes the mackerel cull’s decline in Maine caused by plunder from plumage suppliers and cheap gun wages, an odd Biddeford Times blast about English contracts, Michael Fenwick’s omitted tale in a Wesley diary, a hay rick anecdote, and a Paris Zoological Gardens sea lion saving a boy from drowning with a held-up rescue, all reflecting varied historical curiosities.
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