23 Apr 1872
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1872
Page
1
Browning. A speaker recalls a dying moment and a lover’s secret. In a hospital room the memory wanders to a suburban lane where the ether bottle marks the house above and a romance that bloomed behind the veil of a garden wall. The narrator laments the danger and thrill of their illicit meetings by the blue wall and the Gate of the Lodge. The tone blends regret with the sweetness of a hidden bond.
A tale of a young man chasing a wealthy heiress through a Tumbrill dinner and a shooting party. He touts a plan to wed for money, contends with Featherstone's jests, and is exposed when his railway second class tale backfires. The heiress spurns him after a public humiliation, and she marries Featherstone.
The article details the high value and substitutes for human hair in fashion, describing jute and silk fiber as alternatives and the profit in hair goods. It also recounts an adventure in Northern Maine chasing a large catamount, ending with a hunting party recovering after a dramatic pursuit.
The article describes Russian Lent or the Great Fast lasting seven weeks with dietary rules and social changes. It notes fish allowed in four weeks, abstinence from animal foods, and upper classes observing only weeks one and seven. After carnival ends, dancing stops and theatres close, replaced by tableaux vivants and concerts.
A Times feature profiles a hermit living on a Fulton County farm. Once a Naples consul and minister with vast wealth, he leads a secluded life, writes and reads, and receives books weekly from New York. He is linked by letters to Longfellow and Emerson, and may become a famed future author.
A salt water shark was caught at Sandusky sparking debate over how it arrived. One view says the fish traveled from the Gulf of Mexico up the Mississippi and overland to Sandusky, while another less likely tale suggests origin from Labrador via the St Lawrence and Niagara Falls with land sharks aiding the journey.
In Cincinnati the case of David Gwynne Minor, an infant plaintiff, seeks $50,000 from his parents for years of abuse since 1858. He alleges iron ramrod and rubber whip beatings, dragging by the hair, and confinement in a hot water tank for ten hours, with scars and poor health cited as proof. The defense rejected a settlement offer, promising a court battle amid public scandal.
The excerpt paints a lively country post office during mails time with noisy children, teasing hair pulling, curious missed letters, and the varied reactions of customers from the self-important boy to the shy widow. It contrasts bustling activity with the empty boxes awaiting future correspondence. The second passage reflects on life’s vitality beyond routine needs, valuing knowledge love beauty and faith as nourishment for existence.
The piece urges frugal living by scaling spending to income and saving half a potato for seed. It argues that spending all you earn leads to perpetual poverty, while careful saving gradually builds something, with each sunset marking wasted effort.
In a San Francisco stay, Japanese visitors studied hotel female attendants and street women, concluding Americans’ wealthy and less affluent women differ by physical build, noting a hump on the backs of wealthier figures akin to a dromedary.
A collage of short notices notes and anecdotes including oil yields in California tolls of 119 lives and ten million dollars in property loss and varied items from embezzlement in Constantinople to a clock two hundred fifty years old a prank telegram from Detroit to courtroom incidents in Fond du Lac and Missouri book agents in the legislature and peculiar local tales from Indiana California and beyond
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